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

Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter: A Memoir From the Child of a Mail-Order Bride
Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
Receipts from the Bookshop: A Bookseller's Year in an English Seaside Town
The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia
End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
Never Say Die
Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings: (When) Do Leaders Matter?
How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time
Lost in Space: 5,000 Facts for Navigating the Universe
The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East
The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict
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    The Cost of Care: How Four Nurses Put Patients First in a Profit-Driven System
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    The Let Them Theory
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    A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
    The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
    The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men
    Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life
    Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
    From Here to the Great Unknown
    All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
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