Favorite non-fiction books
Discover top favorite non-fiction books that inspire, educate, and captivate. Explore must-read titles across genres like history, science, memoirs, and self-improvement for your next great read.
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Native American Architecture
by Peter Nabokov
For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass …
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The Snow Leopard
by Peter Matthiessen
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “A masterpiece that exceeds the boundaries of the travel genre and envelops you with its incredible prose.” —Wall Street …
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Nine-Headed Dragon River
by Peter Matthiessen
In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned from Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Zen masters in his driveway—guests of …
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The Politics of Rage
by Dan T. Carter
Combining biography with regional and national history, Dan T. Carter chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of George Wallace, a populist who abandoned his ideals …
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can …
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Living by Fiction
by Annie Dillard
Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, GarcĂa Márquez, Beckett, and …
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The Path to Power
by Robert A. Caro
The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at …
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Means of Ascent
by Robert A. Caro
In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years. Here, Johnson’s …
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Master of the Senate
by Robert A. Caro
Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, …
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The Path Between the Seas
by David McCullough
The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was …
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Titan
by Ron Chernow
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton: here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. Rockefeller, …
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The Redress of Poetry
by Seamus Heaney
Examines the works of a range of poets to discuss poetry's ability to redress spiritual balance as a counterweight to oppressive forces.