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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 Minimalist Home: A Room-By-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food
Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018
13 Things Mentally Strong Women Don't Do: Own Your Power, Channel Your Confidence, and Find Your Authentic Voice for a Life of Meaning and Joy
Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History
The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
Europe in Flames: The Crisis of the Thirty Years War
Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From
Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
Ike's Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler
What Makes Us Girls: And Why It's All Worth It
Spellbound: Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft
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    Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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    No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
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    Women Warriors: An Unexpected History
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  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz
    The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
    This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
    When Breath Becomes Air
    Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption
    Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
    We Should All Be Feminists
    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
    My Thoughts Exactly
    Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
    Art Matters
    The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up: A Magical Story
    The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
    Between the World and Me
    The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
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    The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingWater for Elephants by Sara Gruen
    Books that Exceeded your Expectations
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    John Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinA People's History of the United States by Howard ZinnBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
    Best Non-fiction American History Books
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    Consequences by Aleatha RomigBeautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireTruth by Aleatha RomigOn Dublin Street by Samantha YoungThe Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski
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    3,691 books — 4,276 voters
    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselBeing and Time by Martin HeideggerHiroshima by John HerseyInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
    Must Read Non-Fiction
    2,198 books — 2,408 voters

    The Diary of a Young Girl
    Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1)
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    Bossypants
    Outliers: The Story of Success
    Into the Wild
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
    Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
    Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
    In Cold Blood
    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

    Roxane Gay

    Author of Bad Feminist

    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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