#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.

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in November

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...

Write Place, Write Time: Ernest Hebert

(Note: Ernest sent a note along with the photo: “The picture, which I took with my phone camera is shaky, ...

Behind-the-Scenes Memoirs: A Reading List

This installment of the Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Lay the Favorite: A Story About Gamblers by Beth Raymer. A wild ride through the ...

Happy 153rd Birthday to THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Charles Darwin

The Best of BookRiot.tv: The Most Watched Trailers – November 17-23, 2012

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

Riot Recommendation: Behind-the-Scenes Memoirs

This installment of the Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Lay the Favorite: A Story About Gamblers by Beth Raymer. A wild ride ...

The Best of BookRiot.tv: The Most Watched Trailers – November 10-16, 2012

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

Everyone’s Into Something: My Field Guide Fetish

My grandfather was in to trees. Field Guides to the Trees of Maryland and Beyond, Poplars and More, Mid-Atlantic Native ...

Skip LINCOLN, Read TEAM OF RIVALS

I read Team of Rivals the first Christmas I worked at a bookstore. The title came out in fall of ...

Review GPA: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham

Publication Date: November 13, 2012 Publisher: Random House Genre: History/ Presidential Biography Publisher’s Synopsis: “In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer ...