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

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No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
My Reading Life: A Book Journal
True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
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Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography
Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
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    Gentrifier: A Memoir
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