Nonfiction

Nonfiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that the authors of such accounts believe them to be truthful at the time of their composition. Note that reporting the beliefs of others in a nonfiction format is not necessarily an endorsement of the ultimate veracity of those beliefs, it is simply saying that it is true that people believe that (for such topics as mythology, religion). Nonfiction can als ...more

Mother Mary Comes to Me
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer's Guide Through the Sleeping Mind
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries
Watching Evil Dead: Unearthing the Radiant Artist Within
National Geographic's Book of Magic and the Occult: A Visual History
Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep: And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution
  • Sticks by Logan Jugler
    Sticks: A Collection of Sticks & the People Who Love Them, from the Founders of Stick Nation

    Release date: Oct 07, 2025
    The ultimate guide to the art and science of stick collecting. Because nobody knows sticks like the founders of Stick Nation.

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  • Dear New York by Brandon Stanton
    Dear New York

    Release date: Oct 07, 2025
    With more than 75 percent of the photographs and stories in Dear New York having never been published before, there’s a new discovery on every page.
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  • The Future of Hacking by Laura S. Scherling
    The Future of Hacking: The Rise of Cybercrime and the Fight to Keep Us Safe

    Release date: Jul 10, 2025
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  • I’m Glad My Mom Died
    The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
    Untamed
    From Here to the Great Unknown
    The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir
    The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    Sociopath
    Counting the Cost
    The Art Thief
    Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
    Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
    Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home
    The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
    »Mama, bitte lern Deutsch«: Unser Eingliederungsversuch in eine geschlossene Gesellschaft
    A Different Kind of Power
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    War and Peace by Leo TolstoyA Story of Yesterday by Sergio Cobo1984 by George OrwellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
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    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    The Diary of a Young Girl
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    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    I’m Glad My Mom Died
    Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
    Outliers: The Story of Success
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    The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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