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
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On Witness and Respair
Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
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This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, A Life
Mother Tongue
Conversion Therapy Dropout: A Queer Story of Faith and Belonging
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
Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World
What We Ask Google: A Surprisingly Hopeful History of Humankind
The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel: Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World
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