Best Narrative Nonfiction

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,806 ratings
2.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,375 ratings
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Into the Wild
Into the Wild 4.02 avg rating — 1,165,663 ratings
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Journey to the West: A Long March from Eastern Dream to Western Reality
Journey to the West: A Long March from Eastern Dream to Western Reality
by: Biao Wang
4.27 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster 4.26 avg rating — 550,986 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,073 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania 4.13 avg rating — 157,309 ratings
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War 3.81 avg rating — 4,036 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus 4.16 avg rating — 119,583 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History 4.05 avg rating — 70,019 ratings
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Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer
Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer
by: Evie King
4.33 avg rating — 781 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity 3.98 avg rating — 114,819 ratings
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Anxiety
Anxiety 4.17 avg rating — 41 ratings
14.
Private Battles and The Khaki Cage
Private Battles and The Khaki Cage 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 3.92 avg rating — 289,218 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,211 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex 4.16 avg rating — 115,978 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary 3.84 avg rating — 120,606 ratings
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Corners: Voices on Change
Corners: Voices on Change 3.67 avg rating — 860 ratings
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Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe 4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
21.
A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember 4.09 avg rating — 27,693 ratings
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating — 86,439 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America 3.96 avg rating — 9,298 ratings
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Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir
Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir 4.08 avg rating — 508 ratings
25.
The Nutcracker Chronicles: A Fairytale Memoir
The Nutcracker Chronicles: A Fairytale Memoir 4.31 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti 4.14 avg rating — 209 ratings
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People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman
People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman 3.79 avg rating — 22,906 ratings
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival 4.07 avg rating — 18,587 ratings
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102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
by: Jim Dwyer
4.30 avg rating — 12,178 ratings
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The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care 4.16 avg rating — 488 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,681 ratings
32.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,439 ratings
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem 4.19 avg rating — 78,753 ratings
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Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and China Before and After
Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and China Before and After 3.96 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World 4.33 avg rating — 10,386 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures 4.20 avg rating — 87,600 ratings
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England 3.77 avg rating — 7,831 ratings
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Ghosts Of The Tsunami
Ghosts Of The Tsunami 4.20 avg rating — 7,743 ratings
39.
The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
by: Tom Wolfe
4.23 avg rating — 54,857 ratings
39.
The Civil War Trilogy with American Homer: Reflections on Shelby Foote
The Civil War Trilogy with American Homer: Reflections on Shelby Foote 4.53 avg rating — 8,028 ratings
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America 4.26 avg rating — 4,531 ratings
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
The Body: A Guide for Occupants 4.31 avg rating — 95,275 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey 4.21 avg rating — 74,675 ratings
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare 3.87 avg rating — 10,656 ratings
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Zeitoun
Zeitoun 4.05 avg rating — 79,607 ratings
46.
Hidden Gold: A True Story of the Holocaust
Hidden Gold: A True Story of the Holocaust 4.36 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Inside Story: Everyone's Guide to Reporting and Writing Creative Nonfiction
Inside Story: Everyone's Guide to Reporting and Writing Creative Nonfiction 4.46 avg rating — 24 ratings
48.
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall 4.37 avg rating — 12,282 ratings
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Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse
Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse 3.97 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown 4.01 avg rating — 5,116 ratings
50.
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 4.16 avg rating — 27,262 ratings
52.
King: A Life
King: A Life 4.65 avg rating — 11,032 ratings
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A Civil Action
A Civil Action 3.99 avg rating — 16,814 ratings
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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll 3.99 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
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What It Takes: The Way to the White House
What It Takes: The Way to the White House 4.41 avg rating — 3,144 ratings
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families 4.22 avg rating — 35,954 ratings
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The Making of a Woman: From the Inside Out
The Making of a Woman: From the Inside Out
by: Jewels
4.48 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
by: Greg King
3.73 avg rating — 554 ratings
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There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America 4.30 avg rating — 15,925 ratings
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic 4.19 avg rating — 3,530 ratings
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx 4.26 avg rating — 13,312 ratings
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Poor People
Poor People 3.78 avg rating — 1,185 ratings
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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America 4.24 avg rating — 781 ratings
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The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine 4.12 avg rating — 9,240 ratings
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Liar's Poker
Liar's Poker 4.15 avg rating — 109,201 ratings
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The Final Days
The Final Days 4.17 avg rating — 6,375 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic 4.39 avg rating — 28,865 ratings
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Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking 4.12 avg rating — 316 ratings
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A Writer's Life
A Writer's Life 3.82 avg rating — 420 ratings
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The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution
The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution 3.89 avg rating — 340 ratings
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The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece 3.87 avg rating — 35,393 ratings
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Theodora: Empress of Byzantium
Theodora: Empress of Byzantium 3.74 avg rating — 157 ratings
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The Soho Don
The Soho Don 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Cuba Open from the Inside: Travels in the Forbidden Land
Cuba Open from the Inside: Travels in the Forbidden Land 3.46 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Burke - Now and Then
Burke - Now and Then 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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One Day, One Night: Portraits of the South Pole
One Day, One Night: Portraits of the South Pole
by: John Bird
3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
71.
The John McPhee Reader (John McPhee Reader, #1)
The John McPhee Reader (John McPhee Reader, #1) 4.44 avg rating — 739 ratings
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The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War
The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War 4.40 avg rating — 830 ratings
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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History 3.84 avg rating — 2,632 ratings
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Swift Enough To Endure, The Power of a Grandmother's Love
Swift Enough To Endure, The Power of a Grandmother's Love it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Don't Be Weird: A Memoir of Food and Feelings
Don't Be Weird: A Memoir of Food and Feelings 4.68 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Our Time To Dance, A Mother's Journey To Joy
Our Time To Dance, A Mother's Journey To Joy 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Phoenix Rising: A True Story of Survival
The Phoenix Rising: A True Story of Survival 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Cruel: One Child's Story To Survive
Cruel: One Child's Story To Survive 4.31 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness
Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness 4.46 avg rating — 1,728 ratings
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Anxiety Rx: A New Prescription for Anxiety Relief from the Doctor Who Created It
Anxiety Rx: A New Prescription for Anxiety Relief from the Doctor Who Created It 4.03 avg rating — 1,147 ratings
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Left by the Indians
Left by the Indians 3.76 avg rating — 896 ratings
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Too Happy To Be Sad Girl
Too Happy To Be Sad Girl 4.45 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Point After
The Point After 4.39 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Rideshare Revelations From An LA Uber Driver: The Highlights, The Lowlights and The Darkness
Rideshare Revelations From An LA Uber Driver: The Highlights, The Lowlights and The Darkness 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Episodes in the Life of a NBA Mother
Episodes in the Life of a NBA Mother it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Tales from the Island of Papa Doc
Tales from the Island of Papa Doc it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Papa and His Pigeon: Memoirs of A Black Seminole
Papa and His Pigeon: Memoirs of A Black Seminole it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Story Keeper
The Story Keeper 4.32 avg rating — 127 ratings
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You May Not Be Who You Think You Are!
You May Not Be Who You Think You Are! it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Chains Across the River - A Novel of the American Revolution
Chains Across the River - A Novel of the American Revolution 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives 4.36 avg rating — 14,151 ratings
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II 4.51 avg rating — 37,429 ratings
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V13: Chronicle of a Trial
V13: Chronicle of a Trial 4.45 avg rating — 11,513 ratings
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 4.34 avg rating — 25,785 ratings
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