Books to help me (and hopefully you) read more nonfiction
created by hannah
last updated March, 2025
They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers
Sarah Scoles
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
James Patterson
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
Temple Grandin
Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and other Typographical Curiosities
Keith Houston
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green
Andy Warhol was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities
Claudia Kalb
The Nineties
Chuck Klosterman
Night of the Grizzlies
Jack Olsen
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Sabrina Imbler
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Kate Moore
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Maria Smilios
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
Donnie Eichar
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
Eliot Stein
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
Judi Dench
Dragon Hoops
Gene Luen Yang
Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley
Brent Underwood
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
Andrea Lankford
The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History
Edward Brooke-Hitching
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Yesss!!!! I've been looking for lists like this!!
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