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

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Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen
Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand
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Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope
Free: My Search for Meaning
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John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs
The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York
Sucker Punch: Essays
Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
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