Creative Non Fiction

Creative nonfiction is factually accurate and written in a way that reads like fiction.

In Cold Blood
The Year of Magical Thinking
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Bluets
Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Bird by Bird
The Argonauts
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Eat, Pray, Love
The Ride by Kostya KennedyAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon KrakauerTilly by Monique Gray SmithBeneath the Bamboo by Stan Taylor
Best nonfiction
92 books — 26 voters
Jesus’ Son by Denis JohnsonJust Kids by Patti SmithPost Office by Charles BukowskiJunky by William S. BurroughsI Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp by Richard Hell
Gritty Literature
13 books — 1 voter


I try to walk around without being noticed but I can’t help attracting attention with my pink Mohawk, black clothing and steel toes, and often I’m with Holly and we’re both tall and arrogant.
Jo Treggiari, Love You Like Suicide

...A person who is headstrong enough to open their eyes and their heart to the full depth and weight of the world is inviting in everything out there - both evil and good, both dark and light, and the sheer bravery of that openness enables them to gain profound insight into the human condition. It also fucks them up. It may even make them more prone to stick their head in an oven than to engage in self-promotional chitchat on Jay Leno.
Patricia Pearson

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