Non-Fiction Literature

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.

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Works:

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• 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
  • Belles on Their Toes
• 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
  • The Areas of My Expertise
  • More Information Than You Require
  • That is All
• 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
  • America (The Book)
  • Earth (The Book)
• 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

E-L

• Eats, Shoots & Leaves
• El Deafo
• Escape from Camp 14
• An Essay on the Principle of Population
• Everything I Know About Love
• 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

M-S

• Malignant Selflove Narcissism Revisited
• Malleus Maleficarum
• Marley & Me
• Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future
• Maus
• Mein Kampf
• The Minds of Billy Milligan
• Mine Were Of Trouble
• 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
• The Pianist from Syria - A Memoir
• 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
• Striking and Picturesque Delineations
• Summa Theologiae
• The Sword Does Not Jest
• Symposium

T-Z

• 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
• Unsafe at Any Speed
• 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

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