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 ShiltsBeneath the Bamboo by Stan TaylorTilly by Monique Gray Smith
Best nonfiction
95 books — 35 voters

...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

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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