Narrative Nonfiction


New Releases Tagged "Narrative Nonfiction"

The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia
Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World's First Super-Terrorist
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 Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
In Cold Blood
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Into the Wild
Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story – A Moving True Story Picture Book About the Historic Bombing and Apology for Kids (Ages 6-9)
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
209 books — 201 voters
The Trigger by Tim ButcherHeroes in Good Company by Skyler BaileyIn the Garden of Beasts by Erik LarsonThe Damned Balkans by John FarebrotherFearless by Eric Blehm
Non-Fiction War Stories
93 books — 38 voters

The Knights of St.John by Augusta Theodosia DraneThe Great Betrayal by Ernle BradfordA Land So Strange by Andrés ReséndezNo Picnic on Mount Kenya by Felice BenuzziThe Swamp Fox by John Oller
Blood, Sweat, and Ink
29 books — 1 voter
De la captivite a la liberte by Léonce JATCHELE BÂTON DU VOYAGEUR FATIGUÉ by Léonce JATCHEDE LA CAPTIVITÉ À LA LIBERTÉ by Léonce JATCHEThe Preventioneers by Barry R.  DavisTowards Blue Skies by Adele Minnar Towards Blue S...
Biographies with a Fresh Angle
10 books — 6 voters


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John McPhee
“ So, a little desperate and surprisingly inspired, I bought a cap. Not just any cap. I picked one with a bright-gold visor, a gold button at the top, a crown of navy blue, an American flag on the left temple, and—on the forehead emblem—a spread-winged eagle over a rising sun and a red-and-green tractor-trailer and the white letters “America— Spirit of Freedom.” On the back, over my cerebellum, was a starred banner in blue, white, red, green, and gold that said “Carnesville, GA Petro.” I put on th ...more ”
― John McPhee, Uncommon Carriers

George Critchlow
“ We imagine our paths are freely chosen. But there is a need to account for biology and history, the random intercession of other people, culture, race, and the mystery of the transcendent.
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― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege

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