Nonfiction

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

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
Look Alive Out There
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
Fascism: A Warning
Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession
God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
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