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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 777,922 ratings — published 2003
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 823,736 ratings — published 2010
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 465,662 ratings — published 2017
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,463 ratings — published 2014
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 166,601 ratings — published 2015
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 750,224 ratings — published 1966
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 118,930 ratings — published 2012
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 585,682 ratings — published 1997
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore (Carolrhoda Picture Books)
by (shelved 64 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,091 ratings — published 2015
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 233,161 ratings — published 2023
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,014,051 ratings — published 2010
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 188,270 ratings — published 2018
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 369,554 ratings — published 2013
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)
by (shelved 54 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 737 ratings — published 2018
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 52 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,217,743 ratings — published 1996
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 303,162 ratings — published 1994
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.48 — 121,207 ratings — published 2010
Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,153 ratings — published 2016
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 123,893 ratings — published 1998
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 21,498 ratings — published 2012
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 287,508 ratings — published 2018
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.53 — 147,505 ratings — published 2021
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 225,121 ratings — published 2011
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 122,327 ratings — published 2000
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 114,586 ratings — published 2009
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 89,106 ratings — published 2011
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 230,459 ratings — published 2003
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 52,368 ratings — published 2023
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 117,910 ratings — published 2023
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 176,868 ratings — published 1959
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 127,524 ratings — published 2018
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 142,777 ratings — published 2020
London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 51,634 ratings — published 2026
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,273 ratings — published 2005
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 455,496 ratings — published 1998
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 151,045 ratings — published 2020
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 22,367 ratings — published 2010
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,695 ratings — published 2009
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 246,976 ratings — published 2003
Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 170,253 ratings — published 1999
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,622 ratings — published 2009
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 74,827 ratings — published 1999
And Tango Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 14,313 ratings — published 2005
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 42,790 ratings — published 2009
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,949,223 ratings — published 2018
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 103,910 ratings — published 2009
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 62,734 ratings — published 2024
We Are Water Protectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.48 — 9,186 ratings — published 2020
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 270,338 ratings — published 2018
Let the Children March: An Inspiring Civil Rights Story About Courage and Change for Children (Ages 4–8)
by (shelved 20 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.57 — 2,109 ratings — published 2018
“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 that hat and disappeared. The glances died like flies. I could sit anywhere, from Carnesville to Tacoma. In Candler, North Carolina, while Ainsworth was outside fuelling the truck, I sat inside in my freedom hat saying “Biscuits and gravy” to a waitress. She went “Oooooo wheeeee” and I thought my cover wasn’t working, but a trucker passing her had slipped his hand between the cheeks of her buttocks, and she did not stop writing.”
― Uncommon Carriers
― Uncommon Carriers
“I explain in detail why I feel Homicide is better than Suicide in chapter 1,
For every person who has lost their cancer battle, there is someone who has won, Here's my cancer story.
All relationships are gifts and will come to an end, sometimes not like the way we want.”
― My Life is a Soap Opera
For every person who has lost their cancer battle, there is someone who has won, Here's my cancer story.
All relationships are gifts and will come to an end, sometimes not like the way we want.”
― My Life is a Soap Opera
