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

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Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves
The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System
Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
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New Erotica for Feminists: Satirical Fantasies of Love, Lust, and Equal Pay
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The Allies: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
Henry VIII and the men who made him: The secret history behind the Tudor throne
Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington
The Souls of Yellow Folk
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    The White Darkness
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  • How to Hold a Grudge by Sophie Hannah
    How to Hold a Grudge: From Resentment to Contentment—The Power of Grudges to Transform Your Life
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    Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls
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    Roxane Gay’s writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, West Branch, Virginia Quarterly Review, NOON, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Rumpus, Salon, The Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy culture blog, and many others.

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