Narrative nonfiction
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Narrative nonfiction: Nonfiction that reads like a novel. Also called Creative Nonfiction.
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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
Animal Stories
- Dewey: The Small-town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
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
History
Memoirs and Biography
- Look Me in the Eye: My Life With Aspergers by John Elder Robison
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much 002.075 Bartlett A Child Called It 362.76 Pelzer The Professor and the Madman 423 Winchester
Wesley the Owl 598.97 O’Brien
An anthropologist on Mars 616.8 Sacks Dewey: the small-town library cat 636.8 Myron
- Cod: a biography of the fish… 639.22 Kurlansky
Julie and Julia 641.509 Powell Cooking Dirty 641.509 Sheehan Into Thin Air 796.522 Krakauer Seabiscuit 798 Hillenbrand Life and Death in Shanghai 915.1 Cheng The Zookeeper’s Wife 940.5318 Ackerman Six Days in October 973.916 Blumenthal Roar of the Heavens 976.206 Bechtel
Memoirs
- The Language of Baklava 92 Abu-Jaber
Books by Jonathan Ames (any) Prisoner’s Wife 92 Bandele, Asha Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid 92 Bryson My Life in France 92 Child, Julia Galileo’s Daughter 92 Galilei, Galileo Red Scarf Girl 92 Jiang, Ji-li Angela’s Ashes 92 McCourt Chinese Cinderella 92 Mah
Jonathan Ames autobio 92 Ames
Other books in the 641.509 section
- Indicates that the book is in the system, but isn’t at Northside – kept on the list in case we want to make a booklist later
