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
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

As Time Goes By by W. Royce AdamsThe Ride by Kostya KennedyAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsI Did Not Survive. I Just Refused To Stop. by MissFit WritesBeneath the Bamboo by Stan Taylor
Best nonfiction
96 books — 37 voters

David J. Forsyth
Every generation adds another link to the chain that we call history.
David J. Forsyth, Alice and The Machine Gunner

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

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