Creative Nonfiction


In Cold Blood
The Year of Magical Thinking
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Bluets
In the Dream House
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Argonauts
Into the Wild
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Between the World and Me
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteJourney to the West by Biao  WangThe Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazons by Sophie Neville
Best Narrative Nonfiction
185 books — 164 voters
The Hungry Tide by Amitav GhoshThe Sea Road by Margaret ElphinstoneWater by Robin McKinleyBetween the Avalanche and the Ashes by Dorota ChiomaLight by Margaret Elphinstone
Reflections: Letters in Water
18 books — 4 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonEating Dirt by Charlotte GillIdea Stormers by Bryan MattimoreFaith by Sean E. Jacobs
Best Creative Nonfiction
12 books — 11 voters
ELIS by Anna RajmonWild Swans by Jung ChangI'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdyThe Day That Went Missing by Richard BeardI Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Essential Memoir Reading
75 books — 6 voters

You are losing it." A grave voice reaches my ear from my left shoulder. I pull down the visor and open the mirror. My shoulder critic sits there, his legs drooping over my collarbone, his face a mask of tears. "I am not," I retort. "She was here, clear as day! Well, maybe not 'clear as day' but real enough." My shoulder critic has been with me for as long as I can remember, born perhaps from only-child loneliness, or simply a part of me, like an arm or leg. He appears unbidden and then disappe ...more
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Maria Karvouni
The truth is life should know and believe something to move forward. But isn't it dangerous to know and believe lies? ...more
Maria Karvouni, The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing

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