#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.

Review GPA: HELP, THANKS, WOW by Anne Lamott

Publication Date: November 13, 2012 Publisher: Riverhead Genre:Religious non-fiction, spirituality Publisher’s Synopsis: “Readers of all ages have followed and cherished ...

Holiday Buying Guide: History Books for Hard-To-Shop-For Dudes

This is a guest post from Steve Randolph. Steve enjoys reading weird science fiction and listening to history-type audiobooks in the ...

Thoughts About the 2012 Goodreads Choice Award Winners

1,156,852 votes were cast this year in the Goodreads Choice Awards. That number makes me so happy it feels like ...

Book List: Friends–The People Who Know and Love You

One of the things that is, I think, fun about paying attention to all the new and buzzed-about books is ...

The Best of BookRiot.tv: The Week’s Most Watched Trailers – December 1-7, 2012

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

Do You Read in a Bubble?

Go to Amazon. Choose a topic – Sex, Religion, Politics. Whatever the topic, it should be controversial, the kind of ...

Book Riot’s Best 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 ...

Holiday Buying Guide: Boxed Sets

A lot of popular series found their ways into a nice boxed set this year, as did the collected works ...

Down the Rabbit Hole: How the Internet Can Deepen a Good Read–A Case Study of Dexter Filkins

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Does the Genre You’re Reading Change the Medium You Read In?

I realized recently that I read all my YA books on my phone. YA is usually an impulse buy for ...