Narrative Non Fiction


The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
In Cold Blood
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Here Comes the Garbage Barge!
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteStiff by Mary RoachIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Best Narrative Non-Fiction
163 books — 35 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherWinging It  by Lia RussOne Day at a Time 2017 by Hollie Bell-SchinzingBournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls by Danny WinterThe Two Week Traveller by Matthew Lightfoot
Best Travelogue Books
74 books — 84 voters

Bournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls by Danny WinterNobody Asked Me, But .... by Karl WigginsGunpowder Soup by Karl WigginsYou Really Are Full of Shit, Aren't You? by Karl WigginsShit my History Teacher DID NOT tell me! by Karl Wiggins
Super Funny Nonfiction
47 books — 21 voters
DECEIT v. DECEIT by Vernon BaumrindThe Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana AlexievichIn Other Words by Jhumpa LahiriVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Translated Non-Fiction by Women Authors
231 books — 37 voters

IT Dictionary by Adam KorgaBournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls by Danny WinterThe Two Week Traveller by Matthew LightfootCorporate Crap by Howard  HarrisonCars, Coffee, and a Badass Ninja Toilet by K.C. Hilton
Best Funny Books about Work
26 books — 22 voters

That’s the thing: as the communications adage goes, nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising, and people now knew full well that Bashar’s promised winds of change had been nothing but dust in the wind.
Rime Allaf

Necessary features of the human mind impose structure upon our experiences. Language acts as a gatekeeper for the mind. We learn and embark on personal transformation by formulating, revising, and refining our conception of the world each time that we encounter new facts, experiences, ideas, and viewpoints. To understand the world a person must employ reason and organize their episodic personal experiences into a system of narrative thought. The language that we employ to internalize our persona ...more
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

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