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
- Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story Between an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O'Brien
Food Narratives
No Reservations by Anthony Bourdain Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver Cod: a Biography of the Fish that Changed the World 639.22 by Mark Kurlansky Julie and Julia Julie Powell 641.509 Powell Cooking Dirty 641.509 Sheehan
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
Travel
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Life and Death in Shanghai 915.1 Cheng
History
The Zookeeper’s Wife 940.5318 Ackerman Six Days in October 973.916 Blumenthal Roar of the Heavens 976.206 Bechtel
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
An anthropologist on Mars 616.8 Sacks
Into Thin Air 796.522 Krakauer Seabiscuit 798 Hillenbrand
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
