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

Somebody's Daughter
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
House of Sticks
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
Don't Ask My Name: A Survivor's Story of Lies and Deceptions
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
The Ugly Cry
Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (and Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
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    Untamed
    The Comfort Book
    Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
    The Anthropocene Reviewed
    Becoming
    Becky: The Heartbreaking Story of Becky Watts by Her Father Darren Galsworthy
    Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
    There's a Hole in my Bucket: A Journey of Two Brothers
    Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
    In the Dream House
    How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
    Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France
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    Outliers: The Story of Success
    The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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    A Short History of Nearly Everything
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    We Should All Be Feminists
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