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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Hiroshima, 8:15: The Lost Memoir
The Everest Mystery: Sandy Irvine, George Mallory, and the Truth Still Buried on Everest
The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything
Suffer a Witch: A Memoir
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
Exhumed: Unearthing the History of the American Vampire
Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War
The Ghost of the Mountains: Unraveling the Secrets of the Snow Leopard
Three Tenses: A Transmission from the Nineties
Great and Unfortunate Things
He Has the People: Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1860
The Last Emperor of China: Twilight of the Forbidden City
I Have This Thing for Flowers: Essays on the Roots of Relationships
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    Reds: A Global History of Communism

    Release date: Oct 13, 2026
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    Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine

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