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Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that the authors of such accounts believe them to be truthful at the time of their composition. Note that reporting the beliefs of others in a nonfiction format is not necessarily an endorsement of the ultimate veracity of those beliefs, it is simply saying that it is true that people believe that (for such topics as mythology, religion). Non-fiction can a...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Non Fiction"

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
How to Be a Woman
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
Columbine
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Are You My Mother?
Mom & Me & Mom
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution
Make Good Art
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
The End of Your Life Book Club
Dad Is Fat
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Happy, Happy, Happy
Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
Is It Just Me?
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Her: A Memoir
I'll See You Again
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Attempting Normal
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
Paris in Love
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Sparkly Green Earrings: Catching the Light at Every Turn
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
My Beloved World
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
Eating Animals
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Yes, Chef: A Memoir
Cleopatra: A Life
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search For A New Best Friend
I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids
Hallucinations
Moranthology
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Outliers: The Story of Success
The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Detroit: An American Autopsy
The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World
Zeitoun
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics
Wave
With or Without You
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave
7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now

Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton
His Favorite Books About Love: For February, Botton recommends five books that "seem particularly apt for understanding, appreciating and surviving love."
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Dave Eggers
He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?
Dave Eggers

Donald Van de Mark
Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative way. Will you categorize that dinner with friends as a business expense? Will you be honest with your daughter? Will you take more credit than you’re due? These are just the small questions that we face every day, and little by little, the answers influence the trajectory of our lives and beings.
Donald Van de Mark

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