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Article in Category:Adult Nonfiction category.
What is narrative nonfiction? Narrative nonfiction is nonfiction that reads like a novel. It's also called creative nonfiction. Narrative nonfiction is popular because it is informational, well-written, and reads like a story.
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True Crime
- Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
- Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi
- The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh
Science
- Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Saved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
Medical
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
- Intern: A Doctor's Initiation by Sandeep Jauhar
- The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
- An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Animal Stories
- Dewey: The Small-town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
- Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story Between an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O'Brien
Food Narratives
- No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach by Anthony Bourdain
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
- Cod: a Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
- Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
- Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love, and Death in the Kitchen by Jason Sheehan
Travel
- Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
History
- The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story Diane Ackerman
- Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 by Karen Blumenthal
- Roar of the Heavens by Stefan Bechtel
Memoirs and Biography
- The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber
- The Prisoner's Wife: a Memoir by Asha Bandele
- Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
- My Life in France by Julia Child
- Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-Li Jiang
- Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
- Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
- Look Me in the Eye: My Life With Aspergers by John Elder Robison
- Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much 002.075 Bartlett
A Child Called It 362.76 Pelzer
The Professor and the Madman 423 Winchester
An anthropologist on Mars 616.8 Sacks
Into Thin Air 796.522 Krakauer Seabiscuit 798 Hillenbrand
