Nonfiction Books

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

  • Minority Rule by Ari Berman
    Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It

    Release date: Apr 23, 2024
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    Availability: 10 copies available, 1972 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Mar 23 - Apr 22, 2024

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  • The Bluestockings by Susannah Gibson
    The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement

    Release date: Jul 23, 2024
    An illuminating group portrait of the eighteenth-century women who dared to imagine an active life of the mind and spirit for themselves. In eighteent ...more
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    Availability: 30 copies available, 3549 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Mar 25 - Apr 22, 2024

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  • All the Worst Humans by Phil Elwood
    All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians

    Release date: Jun 25, 2024
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    Giveaway dates: Mar 25 - Apr 22, 2024

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  • The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneNumber the Stars by Lois Lowry
    Well-Written Holocaust Books
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    Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenHopeless by Colleen HooverDivergent by Veronica RothFallen Too Far by Abbi Glines
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    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. RowlingPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankAnimal Farm by George Orwell
    Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
    31,294 books — 109,707 voters

    Una historia de ayer by Sergio CoboA Shade of Vampire by Bella ForrestThe Wronged Sons by John MarrsIsle of Winds by James FahyDrowned Tomb by James Fahy
    Best of Little-Known Authors
    6,473 books — 5,635 voters
    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
    Must Read Non-Fiction
    5,000 books — 4,347 voters


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