Most Read This Week In Narrative Nonfiction


Most Read This Week Tagged "Narrative Nonfiction"

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia
American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World's First Super-Terrorist
Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
The Nord Stream Conspiracy: The Inside Story of the Explosions That Shook the World
The American School of Spies: The Archaeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece
Ghosts of Sicily: The True Story of the Naval Intelligence Agents Who Courted the Mob to Fight Nazis in America and the Battlefields of Italy
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
No One’s Coming: The Rogue Heroes Our Government Turns to When There’s Nowhere Else to Turn
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
The Sea Captain's Wife
The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII
Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America
Vanished Beyond the Map: The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell
The Afghans: Three Lives through War, Love, and Revolt
The Violence: My Family's Colombian War
Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali
A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, A Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out
The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West
Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown
The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing
Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd
Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
Grizzly Confidential: An Astounding Journey into the Secret Life of North America’s Most Fearsome Predator
My Powerful Hair
Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
Miracle Children: Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises
The Escape Artist: A True Story of Octopus Adventure
The Vanishing of Lake Peigneur: A Graphic Novel Based on a True Story
Safe Crossing
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away with It
Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation
Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, A Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion
Erno Rubik and His Magic Cube
Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary
Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools (Scholastic Focus)
Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie
Kent State: An American Tragedy
Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West
The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare
The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius – The True Story of an Elaborate Scam and the Psychopathic Criminal Behind It
Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels
The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin's Russia
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt
The Mission (A True Story)
In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony
Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America
Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
A Stone Is a Story
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
Overreach
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind
Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
Northeaster: A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952
Aquanaut: A Life Beneath The Surface – The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue
A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters
The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast
Spies, Lies, and Exile: The Extraordinary Story of Russian Double Agent George Blake
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings – The Forgotten History of Daring Exploration and Human Genius
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific
The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail
The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science
Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge
The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal
The Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State
Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America
Hidden Hope: How a Toy and a Hero Saved Lives During the Holocaust
The Book of Turtles: A Fact-Filled Picture Book About Beloved Reptile Species for Kids (Ages 4-8)
Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media

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