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#Nonfiction

News on new nonfiction books and recommendations for the best nonfiction books, including historical books, biographies, nonfiction books for kids, and more, from Book Riot.

Bookstore Kryptonite: European/World War History

By now, if you’re a fairly regular reader of Book Riot, you’re familiar with our ongoing Genre Kryptonite series, in ...

Writers on Writing and Their (Writing) Friends

When I was a kid I imagined that writers had the most glamorous lives. Unlike pedestrian people like my parents ...

What to Read If You Love Hitchcock Movies

Recommended Hitchcockian books.

Exploring Genres: The Personal Essay

Maybe it’s just me, but the personal essay seems to be having a moment. Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams is ...

Kentucky Derby: The Greatest Two Minutes in American Sports, Drink, and Pie

The Kentucky Derby, the “greatest two minutes in sports” is Saturday, May 3. I hope you read that in ALL CAPS because ...

CREATIVITY INC by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace: A Review

It didn’t start out on purpose, but so few things of great interest truly do. It was winter break, I ...

Take Me Out to the Ballgame: 33 Nonfiction Picks

Take me out to the bookstore Take me out with the nerds Buy me some Atwood and Rainbow Rowell I ...

Black Authors’ Best B-Sides

Less famous books by famous Black women.

Five Books to Watch for in April

The best new releases, for your reading pleasure.

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in March

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver In The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan examined three different types of food–industrial, pastoral, and ...