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- Drawing Blood by Molly Crabapple. Both brilliant and beautiful, this memoir gives readers an inside look at the art world while also tackling issues of sexualization, political activism, and more.
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. This memoir in books is an old favorite of mine from the early 2000s. Nafisi writes of the secret book group she led, made up of her most committed female students, using the forbidden Western classics they read to give readers a nuanced look at what life was like in revolutionary Iran.
- The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy. After seeing Clancy speak on a panel at Book Riot Live—about using humor to tackle difficult topics—I had to buy her memoir.
- Love and Trouble by Claire Dederer. Almost eight years ago, Dederer wrote a yoga memoir: Poser. This memoir, on the other hand, is about the author reconciling the young woman she used to be with the woman she has become in midlife.
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Books shelved as creative-nonfiction: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion...
Creative Nonfiction magazine defines the genre simply, succinctly, and accurately as “true stories well told.”. And that, in essence, is what creative nonfiction is all about. In some ways, creative nonfiction is like jazz—it’s a rich mix of flavors, ideas, and techniques, some newly invented and others as old as writing itself ...
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- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Buy on Amazon. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful history of racial violence in the United States — and what it means to be black in this country today.
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Buy on Amazon. A disarming “biography” of disease, The Emperor of All Maladies chronicles thousands of years of people grappling with the terrifying specter of cancer.
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert. Buy on Amazon. When the next major mass extinction hits the planet, as scientists foretell it soon might, humanity will be the victim — and the perpetrator.
- How to Survive a Plague by David France. Buy on Amazon. David France has been one of the key chroniclers of the AIDS epidemic in the United States since its beginnings.
Apr 18, 2023 · You’ll hear it referred to sometimes as “literary nonfiction” or “creative nonfiction.” We’ve collected 42 of some of the most popular narrative nonfiction books in circulation, according to your fellow Goodreads regulars. The more recent books are up top, and many of these are frankly fascinating. (We’re looking at you, Wolfish.)
2,422 books based on 1420 votes: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek, Tues...
Nov 19, 2018 · Need some inspiration? Check out this list of 100 major works of British and American creative nonfiction published over the past 90 years or so.
