Literature, often written in prose, focused on discussing and providing factual information about Real Life concepts, subjects and events to the reader, rather than telling a story.
Works:
- 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
- One Thousand And One Video Games You Must Play Before You Die
- 3-D Thrillers!
- The Action Hero's Handbook
- Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
- Albion's Seed
- The Alexiad
- Algebra the Easy Way
- All Souls
- All Yesterdays
- Always with Honor
- American Cornball
- Anabasis
- Anarchist Cookbook
- And the Band Played On
- Angela's Ashes
- The Animator's Survival Kit
- Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
- Ars Goetia
- The Art of Asking
- The Art of War (Machiavelli)
- The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
- Asimov's Book of Facts
- Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare
- The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- Bad Science
- Black Elk Speaks
- Blasphemous and Unintentionally Racist Things Keaton and Wyatt Say
- Liechtenauer's Bloßfechten
- Blowing Up the Movies
- The Book of Lord Shang
- Born A Crime
- A Bridge Too Far
- Brown's Pine Ridge Stories
- Cambridge Latin Course
- The Cartoon History of the Universe
- Character Flaws
- Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
- Cheaper by the Dozen
- Chicken Soup for the Soul
- A Child Called "It"
- Choosing Death
- Christiane F.
- The Chronicle of Duke Erik
- Commentaries on the Gallic War
- Courier From Warsaw
- A Civil Action
- Complete World Knowledge
- Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible and Fried
- Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo
- The Craft of the Adventure
- Cult Movies by Danny Peary
- The Daily Show Presents
- Dark Night: A True Batman Story
- The Death of WCW
- The Decline of the West
- Dersu Uzala
- The Devil's Dictionary
- The Diary of a Young Girl
- The Diary of Samuel Pepys
- Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages
- The Disaster Artist
- The Disney Villain
- Dispatches
- Discourses on Livy
- The Dynasty
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves
- El Deafo
- Escape from Camp 14
- An Essay on the Principle of Population
- Extraterrestrial Civilizations
- Eyes on Adventure
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Fever Pitch
- The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and How They Got That Way)
- Fighting Men: How Men Have Fought Through the Ages by Ewart Oakeshaft and Henry Treece
- Fighting in Hell
- The Fire Never Goes Out
- The First Voyage Around The World
- Five Years To Freedom
- The Four Loves
- Freedom Writers
- Fresh Off the Boat
- Friday Night Lights
- Friends Like These
- Fun Home
- The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
- Game Change
- The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth
- Generation Kill
- Ghostly Ruins
- Girl, Interrupted
- The Glass Castle
- Glasses Stories
- Double Standards
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- Going Clear
- The Great Escape
- The Great Game
- The Greatest Movies You'll Never See
- The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown
- Greenwood Press
- Guinness World Records
- The Gulag Archipelago
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- The Hagakure
- Hamlet's Hit Points
- Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks
- A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
- Heimskringla
- Heroin Story
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- Hillbilly Elegy
- History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II
- The Histories
- Hobbies and Interests
- Holiday Mode
- Homage to Catalonia
- Horrible Histories
- How NOT to Write a Novel
- How to Teach Physics to Your Dog
- I Am America (And So Can You!)
- If This Is a Man
- The Illusion of Life
- Ill Be Gone In The Dark
- Imponderables
- In a Summer Garment
- In Cold Blood
- Industrial Society and Its Future
- In The Shadow Of A Rainbow
- Istanbul Intrigues
- James Herriot
- Japan, Inc.
- Jargon File
- Jim Henson The Biography
- Join Me
- Kama Sutra
- King of the Dinosaurs: Tyrannosaurus rex
- King Warrior Magician Lover
- Kissing Outside Lines
- Feliks Koneczny
- Laguna Copperplate Inscription
- Let Me Off at the Top!
- Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
- A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear
- Liddell and Scott Greek-English Lexicon
- Life Before Man
- The Limits to Growth
- The Little Book of Prayers
- Logicomix
- Lone Survivor
- The Long Emergency
- The Longest Day
- Long for This World
- Malignant Selflove Narcissism Revisited
- Malleus Maleficarum
- Marley & Me
- Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future
- Maus
- Mein Kampf
- The Minds of Billy Milligan
- Misery Lit
- Moab Is My Washpot
- The Most Beautiful
- The Mouse Betrayed
- The Munchkin's Guide to Power Gaming
- Mune Shinri
- Murder in Coweta County
- Murderous Maths
- My Friend Dahmer
- NeuroTribes
- Night
- A Night To Remember
- Nocturnal Witchcraft
- The North Avenue Irregulars
- Nothing to Envy
- On the Life and Character of Julius Agricola
- One Bullet Away
- On Fairy-Stories
- On the Road
- On Writing
- Open Veins of Latin America
- Operation Massacre
- Opus 100
- Outlaw Platoon
- O Ye Jigs & Juleps!
- Paperbacks from Hell
- Parallel Lives
- The Perfect Storm
- Persepolis
- Philosophy and Science Fiction
- A Pickle for the Knowing Ones
- The Places In Between
- Poetics
- Politics (Aristotle)
- The Population Bomb
- The Power Broker
- The Prince
- Principia Discordia
- Prose Edda
- Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy
- The Real Frank Zappa Book
- The Republic
- Red Scarf Girl
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad
- Ring of Hell
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- Same Kind of Different as Me
- The Secret
- Secret History: Or, The Horrors Of St. Domingo In A Series Of Letters
- Secrets of German Medieval Swordsmanship
- Serpico
- The Seven Basic Plots
- Sex Robots and Vegan Meat
- Shake Hands with the Devil
- Sick Little Monkeys
- Silent Spring
- Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
- The Sixth Extinction
- Stasiland
- The State of Affairs
- The Steel Bonnets
- Storm of Steel
- The Story of Civilization
- The Stranger Beside Me
- Stranger Than Fiction: The Life And Times Of Split Enz
- Summa Theologiae
- The Sword Does Not Jest
- Symposium
- Teen Witch
- Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
- Too Funny for Words: Disney's Greatest Sight Gags
- Tropic of Cancer
- The Truce
- They Cage the Animals at Night
- The True History of the Conquest of Mexico
- Tuesdays with Morrie
- The Unadulterated Cat
- Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
- The Unexplained
- The Uninhabitable Earth
- The Unwomanly Face Of War
- A Very English Scandal
- Voices from Chernobyl
- Melchior Wańkowicz
- The War in South Africa
- The Way Things Work
- Weird US series
- What Does a Martian Look Like?
- What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years
- What Were They Thinking? The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History
- When Rabbit Howls
- Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame
- Why Literature Is Bad for You
- Wild Swans
- Words of Science and the History Behind Them
- The X-Ray Picture Book of Incredible Creatures
- The Yankee Plague
- Yes-Man
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Zi Zhi Tong Jian
