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

The Land and Its People
Make Believe
The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness
On Witness and Respair
Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Life and Death on Pompeii's Final Day
This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, A Life
Mother Tongue
The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World
Conversion Therapy Dropout: A Queer Story of Faith and Belonging
What We Ask Google: A Surprisingly Hopeful History of Humankind
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel: Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World
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    The Four Stages of Living: Your Guide to Surviving Life's Storms and Thriving in the Aftermath

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    Food Is Medicine: Healing Our Bodies, Nourishing Our Minds, and Transforming Our Food System

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  • I'm Glad My Mom Died
    The Let Them Theory
    A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
    This Is Me: A Reckoning
    The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
    The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
    The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    Awake
    Raising Hare: A Memoir
    Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
    Sociopath
    The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
    Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
    Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
    The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir
    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
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    I'm Glad My Mom Died
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Outliers: The Story of Success
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