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

Sociopath
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Between Two Trailers
Did I Ever Tell You?
The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
Somehow: Thoughts on Love
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
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    The Richest Man in Babylon

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    Counting the Cost
    Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
    The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    Untamed
    Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
    Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
    Rebel Rising
    How to Keep House While Drowning
    Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
    The Anthropocene Reviewed
    What Happened To You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
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    Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
    The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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    Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
    Outliers: The Story of Success
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    The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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