#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.

Rediscovering a Writer: Whatever Happened to Kendall Hailey?

PART 1 Not long ago, something seized and joggled my memory’s elbow, and I thought of a wonderful memoir I’d ...

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 ...

Thomas Jefferson Was A Bit of a Tart and Other Trivia I Learned in Meacham’s New Bio

Jon Meacham’s new biography Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power is a detailed and fascinating account of the President’s life ...

Reading Style: Preppy Edition

We find book recommendations in a myriad of ways; all in the hopes of finding the perfect next read. We go off ...

5 Literary Cookbooks

The only thing better than eating tasty noms is eating tasty literary noms. Here are five literary cookbooks based on ...

The Best of BookRiot.TV: The Most Watched Trailers – December 8-14, 2013

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

5 Great Multi-Purpose Gift Books

It’s time for another edition of multi-purpose gift books! As with last year’s recommendations, I’ve rounded up a handful of ...

5 Questions for Jen Adams of THE BOOKS THEY GAVE ME

Could this be the ultimate meta-gift? The Books They Gave Me, a paper-and-glue collection culled from Jen Adams’s blog of ...

The Well-Readheads’ Year in Books

RJS: Reunited and it feels so good! I’ve called you out of your book cave today, Muffin, so we can ...

Book Riot Readers’ Top 25 Books of 2012

A couple weeks ago, we invited you to join in the end-of-year list making fun and share your favorite books of 2012. ...