Nonfiction

Nonfiction 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). Nonfiction can als ...more

The Land and Its People
Make Believe
The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness
Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
On Witness and Respair
Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, A Life
The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Life and Death on Pompeii's Final Day
Mother Tongue
The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
The Tomato Grower's Handbook: Everything you need to know, from seed to harvest and beyond
Conversion Therapy Dropout: A Queer Story of Faith and Belonging
The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel: Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World
Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World
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    The Mayor: One Poor City’s Fight to Bring Back Government and Save the Nation’s Soul

    Release date: Dec 01, 2026
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    In Nature We Trust: A Raw Food Manifesto for Energy, Healing & Longevity
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    Happy Hacks: 101 Science-Backed Ways to Boost Happiness, Reduce Stress, and Build a More Meaningful Life

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  • I'm Glad My Mom Died
    The Let Them Theory
    A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
    The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
    The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
    This Is Me: A Reckoning
    The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    Raising Hare: A Memoir
    Awake
    The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
    Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
    Sociopath
    Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
    Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
    The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir
    Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonFirst Time Dad by James        MacdonaldLean In by Sheryl Sandberg
    Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
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    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
    Memoirs by Women
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    The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakLife of Pi by Yann Martel
    Foreign Lands
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    The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
    Best Feminist Books
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    Una historia de ayer by Sergio CoboA Shade of Vampire by Bella ForrestThe Wronged Sons by John MarrsIsle of Winds by James FahyDrowned Tomb by James Fahy
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    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    The Diary of a Young Girl
    Educated
    Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
    Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
    I'm Glad My Mom Died
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
    Outliers: The Story of Success
    The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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    The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
    Man's Search for Meaning
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    We Should All Be Feminists

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