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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.

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: August 7, 2012

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. [galleryview ...

Gatsby in Real Life: Nonfiction on the Themes of Gatsby

I started this two-parter with a list of nonfiction books about the life and times of The Great Gatsby’s author, ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: July 31, 2012

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. [galleryview ...

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

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

Gatsby in Real Life: Nonfiction About Fitzgerald and His Time (Part I)

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

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: July 17, 2012

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. [galleryview ...

Recommending Books for the Characters of BREAKING BAD

Frequently grim, but just as often daffy, each season of AMC’s Breaking Bad crystalizes into pure, novelistic TV drama. Like ...

Genre Kryptonite: Numerical Biographies

This is a guest post from Christina Oppold. Christina believes the best reading lives are lived off the couch by turning books ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: July 10, 2012

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. [galleryview ...

A Great Big, Huge, Not Very Small at All List of Books About Books

A couple weeks back, a Riot reader who goes under the alias Anne Boleyn asked the Book Riot community to ...