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

Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter: A Memoir From the Child of a Mail-Order Bride
Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
Receipts from the Bookshop: A Bookseller's Year in an English Seaside Town
The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia
End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
Never Say Die
Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings: (When) Do Leaders Matter?
How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time
Lost in Space: 5,000 Facts for Navigating the Universe
The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East
The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict
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  • The Abiding Way by Jeanine Amapola Ward
    The Abiding Way: A 40-Day Devotional Study Through the Gospel of John

    Release date: Oct 27, 2026
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  • Brooklyn Bohemians by Nelson George
    Brooklyn Bohemians: How a Generation of Funky, Fly, Soon-to-Be-Famous Black Artists Changed American Culture

    Release date: Mar 02, 2027
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  • Labor by Mary Fariba Afsari
    Labor: One Woman's Work

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  • I'm Glad My Mom Died
    The Let Them Theory
    The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
    The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    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 Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men
    Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life
    Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
    From Here to the Great Unknown
    All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
    The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
    Raising Hare: A Memoir
    Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
    The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir
    Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireThe Fault in Our Stars by John  GreenHopeless by Colleen HooverDivergent by Veronica RothFallen Too Far by Abbi Glines
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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
    Best of Little-Known Authors
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    Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittBorn To Rise by Lorna  BlakeA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonLean In by Sheryl SandbergFirst Time Dad by James        Macdonald
    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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    Motivational and Self-Improvement Books
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    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    The Diary of a Young Girl
    Educated
    Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
    Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
    I'm Glad My Mom Died
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Outliers: The Story of Success
    Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
    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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