Literary Nonfiction


In Cold Blood
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
The Glass Castle
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
The Year of Magical Thinking
Educated
Into the Wild
Desert Solitaire
Just Kids
Night
A Moveable Feast
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Lucky by Scott NelsonDreamer's Daughter by Lori ThickeEducated by Tara WestoverThe Liar's Playbook by Leslie  Bradford-ScottDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
Memoirs About Complicated Parents
18 books — 9 voters

The Ride by Kostya KennedyAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsBeneath the Bamboo by Stan TaylorTilly by Monique Gray SmithUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Best nonfiction
92 books — 26 voters

Deepak  Das
The most expensive thing I ever did was make someone feel ordinary while they were being extraordinary. Not through cruelty. Through the specific laziness of assuming that what stays will keep staying." — AIWR ...more
Deepak Das, Even When I Made It Easy to Leave: A Record of What She Chose

Ernest Hemingway
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after and judged by these standards, which I do not defend, the bullfight is very normal to me because I feel very fine while it is going on and have a feeling of life and death and mortality and immortality, and after it is over I feel very sad but also very fine.
Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

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