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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

Mark Twain
Is a River Alive?
Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship
Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
The True Happiness Company: How a Girl Like Me Falls for a Cult Like That
Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story
Dianaworld: An Obsession
Hunger Like a Thirst: From Food Stamps to Fine Dining, a Restaurant Critic Finds Her Place at the Table
Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America
The Magician's Daughter: A Memoir
Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA
Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age
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    A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America

    Release date: Sep 09, 2025
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  • The Will to Change by bell hooks
    The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

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    My Next Breath: A Memoir
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    Sociopath
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    Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
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