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4410+ Creative Nonfiction Short Stories to read. Submitted by writers on Reedsy Prompts to our weekly writing contest. The creative nonfiction stories on this page deliver exactly what it says on the tin: true stories told in weird and wonderful ways. 🏆 Winning stories. “ Dear Coldplay, I Love You. Wait. Scratch That. ” by Éan Bird.
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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.
- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (2010) I read Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow when it first came out, and I remember its colossal impact so clearly—not just on the academic world (it is, technically, an academic book, and Alexander is an academic) but everywhere.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies (2010) In this riveting (despite its near 600 pages) and highly influential book, Mukherjee traces the known history of our most feared ailment, from its earliest appearances over five thousand years ago to the wars still being waged by contemporary doctors, and all the confusion, success stories, and failures in between—hence the subtitle “a biography of cancer,” though of course it is also a biography of humanity and of human ingenuity (and lack thereof).
- Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) As a strongly humanities-focused person, it’s difficult for me to connect with books about science.
- Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands (2010) Timothy Snyder’s brilliant Bloodlands has changed World War II scholarship more, perhaps, than any work since Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, an apt comparison given that Bloodlands includes within it a response to Arendt’s theory of the banality of evil (Snyder doesn’t buy it, and provides convincing proof that Eichmann was more of a run-of-the-mill hateful Nazi and less a colorless bureaucrat simply doing his job).
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- Giveaways. Unraveling Wrongful Conviction and Miscarriage of Justice: True Story Transforming Despair to Hope by Matthew Harrison. Release date: Jan 27, 2024.
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May 28, 2021 · By Literary Hub. May 28, 2021. Must a beach read be a novel? (If you answered yes, head here .) If you answered no please read on for a look at the nonfiction titles we’re most excited about this summer.
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) by Maya Angelou.
- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser.
May 1, 2024 · The best non-fiction books can educate readers on vital subjects, offer fresh new perspectives, or simply give us a valuable, and often entertaining, insight into the lives of others. Here is our edit of the must-read new non-fiction, and the best non-fiction books of all time.
