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

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution
The Kennedys and the Windsors: The Story of Two Dynasties, One Born, One Made
The American School of Spies: The Archaeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece
The Yahoo Boys: Real Life with the Love Scammers of Lagos
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
The Nord Stream Conspiracy: The Inside Story of the Explosions That Shook the World
Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America
Kingdom of Devils: A Tale of Murder in the Shadow of the American Revolution
A Resistance History of the United States
Gowanus Crossing: A Brooklyn Boyhood
The Hardest, Longest Race: Henry Ford and the Cross-Country Contest That Changed America
Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage
Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess
  • Minds I've Met by Frans de Waal
    Minds I've Met: From Denying to Embracing the Inner Lives of Animals

    Release date: Oct 13, 2026
    New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal traces the dramatic changes in humanity’s perception of animals ...more
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    Availability: 15 copies available, 2452 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jun 10 - Jul 08, 2026

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  • The Digital Delusion by Jared Cooney Horvath
    The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids' Learning--and How to Help Them Thrive Again

    Release date: Aug 18, 2026
    Educator and neuroscientist Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath reveals why digital tools in school consistently undermine learning—and what parents, teachers, a ...more
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    Availability: 12 copies available, 1969 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jun 12 - Jul 08, 2026

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  • Even the Darkest Night by Christopher G. Choukalas
    Even the Darkest Night: A Father's Journey of Hope and Healing from Paternal Depression

    Release date: Jun 02, 2026
    Offering hope and illumination, the bone-raw story of a father’s failure to bond with his infant twin daughters, and his journey through paternal depr ...more
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    Availability: 10 copies available, 1920 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jun 12 - Jul 08, 2026

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  • I'm Glad My Mom Died
    The Let Them Theory
    A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
    The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
    The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
    The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    This Is Me: A Reckoning
    Raising Hare: A Memoir
    Awake
    The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
    Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
    Sociopath
    Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
    Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
    From Here to the Great Unknown
    The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovThe Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
    Inspiring Books
    5,019 books — 4,063 voters
    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
    Memoirs by Women
    3,371 books — 3,568 voters

    The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
    Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
    6,329 books — 8,171 voters
    Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
    Best Non-fiction War Books
    2,238 books — 2,584 voters

    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsGood Omens by Terry PratchettLamb by Christopher MooreThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanMe Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
    Best Humorous Books
    4,444 books — 8,257 voters
    A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor Bombov
    Winter Reads
    10,140 books — 2,881 voters

    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    The Diary of a Young Girl
    Educated
    Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
    Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
    I'm Glad My Mom Died
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
    Outliers: The Story of Success
    The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    Becoming
    The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
    Man's Search for Meaning
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    We Should All Be Feminists

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