Nonfiction

Non-fiction 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). Non-fiction can a ...more

Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto
Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
Abandon Me
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia

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