#Nonfiction

News on new nonfiction books and recommendations for the best nonfiction books, including historical books, biographies, nonfiction books for kids, and more, from Book Riot.

Five Books to Watch For in January

Sweet baby carrots, we survived the end of the world! You know what that means – TIME TO READ MORE ...

Best of Book Riot: On Finding Narrative in Tragedy

How does narrative help us process tragedy? That’s one of the questions I’ve been asking myself since the tragic shooting ...

Best of Book Riot: Our Favorite Books of 2012

Editor’s note: We challenged our contributors to choose their top 2 books of 2012. Some were sassy and only picked one, others ...

Best of Book Riot: Gatsby in Real Life

As an avid reader of nonfiction, my first impulse after finishing a book like The Great Gatsby, a classic American novel ...

Best of Book Riot: The Advanced Citizenship Reading List

To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll ...

Best of Book Riot: The Four Parts of a Book Review

To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll ...

Best of Book Riot: Do You Read in a Bubble?

To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll ...

Book Riot’s Last-Minute Gift Guide

So you’re T minus a handful of hours before Santa is supposed to shimmy down the chimney, and you’re headed ...

The Best of BookRiot.tv: The Most Watched Trailers – December 15-21, 2012

Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch!  

Whatever Happened to Kendall Hailey?: Part 2

Now that I’ve tracked down Kendall Hailey, author of the terrific memoir The Day I Became an Autodidact, she gamely ...