A collection of actually interesting non-fiction reads. Spanning from biographies to historical essays, poetry & more.
created by Harms
last updated October, 2026
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
Caitlin Doughty
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
Susan Orlean
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Rich Cohen
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
Luke Kemp
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
Anna Funder
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Colin Dickey
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Judith Tick
Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
Rebecca Romney
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
Sara Lodge
Want
Gillian Anderson
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Pérez
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Kate Moore
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Steven Johnson
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah
Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Judy Melinek
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
Pagan Kennedy
Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love
Zack McDermott
It's Not Love, Actually: How to find the life and love you deserve
Dee Salmin
In the Dream House: A Memoir
Carmen Maria Machado
Educated
Tara Westover
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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