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
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Bluets
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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

Patti Larsen
I was always an odd child, though I had no idea what odd was, really.
Patti Larsen, Prince Nameless

Patti Larsen
Well now,” the dragon says to her in a voice like rolling thunder, “who are you really here to save?
Patti Larsen, Prince Nameless

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