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27 top writers, journalists and editors select their favourite pieces of classic non-fiction

For the past couple of months Nieman Storyboard has been asking experts to describe what makes their all-time favourite articles and essays so good. To read the 27 excellent short essays click here. 

Together, the articles they have chosen make up one of the best reading lists we’ve seen, here are links to all the must reads:

Hogs Wild by Ian Frazier
Shipping Out by David Foster Wallace
Inhaling the Spore by Lawrence Weschler
Resurrecti ng The Champ by J.R. Moehringer
Up and Then Down by Nick Paumgarten
The Silent Season of a Hero by Gay Talese
The Rules of Engagement by William Langewiesche
The Peekaboo Paradox by Gene Weingarten
Breaking Bread with a Spread by Sandra Cate
Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds By Michael Lewis
On the Run from Everything but Each Other by Christopher Goffard
Mother Earth Mother Board by Neal Stephenson
On a Mundane Morning, the Clock Struck 9 by Hank Stuever
The Duke in His Domain by Truman Capote
Can You Say … “Hero”? by Tom Junod
The Miracle In Bilbao by Herbert Muschamp
Writers in Hollywood by Raymond Chandler
Death of a Racehorse by W.C. Heinz
The Marriage Cure by Katherine Boo
A Father’s Pain by Barry Siegel
Shadow Cities by André Aciman
Atchafalya by John McPhee