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Nonfiction that reads like Fiction

220.5203 N52G
God's Secretaries: the Making of the King James Bible / Adam Nicolson

303.4 D541G
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies / Jared Diamond

303.4833 F9146W
The World is Flat: a Brief History of the Twenty-first Century / Thomas L. Friedman

364.152 C17I
In Cold Blood: a True Account of a Multiple Murder and it’s Consequences / Truman Capote

364.1523 C233A
The Adversary: a True Story of Monstrous Deception / Emmanuel Carrere

364.1523 C816P
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper: Case Closed / Patricia D. Cornwell

364.1523 L329D
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America / Erik Larson

394.12 ST241H
A History of the World in 6 Glasses / Tom Standage

396.3 P936M
The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead / Heather Pringle

551.6 C3375F
Freaks of the Storm: From Flying Cows to Stealing Thunder: the World’s Strangest Ttrue Weather Stories / Randy Cerveny

599.949 R394I
In the Little World: a True Story of Dwarfs, Love, and Trouble / John H. Richardson

611 R53S
Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers / Mary Roach

616.8 SA1M
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales / Oliver Sacks

617.092 C6949H
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years / Michael J. Collins

617.092 G248C
Complications: a Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science / Atul Gawande

635.9344 OR6O
The Orchid Thief / Susan Orlean

798.4 H557S
Seabiscuit: an American Legend / Laura Hillenbrand

817 SE27N
Naked / David Sedaris

910.9164 P534I
In the Heart of the Sea: the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex / by Nathaniel Philbrick

914.15 H314R
Round Ireland with a Fridge / Tony Hawks

916.76 M34W
West with the Night / Beryl Markham

917.3 B84L
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America / Bill Bryson

917.75 P429P
Population – 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time / Michael Perry

917.7733 B623P
Postville: a Clash of Cultures in Heartland America / Stephen Bloom.

920 B955C
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: the Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West / Edward Rice

920 D8914F
Funny in Farsi: a Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America / Firoozeh Dumas

920 F957D
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: an African Childhood / Alexandra Fuller

920 G133S
Galileo's Daughter: a Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love / Dava Sobel

920 H262P
Driving Mr. Albert: a Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain / Michael Paterniti

940.53144 B463C
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 / Michael Beschloss

940.5425 SI13G
Ghost Soldiers: the Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission / Hampton Sides

940.5451 K966S
Shadow Divers: the Ttrue Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II / Robert Kurson

951.056 SH45G
Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard / Fan Shen

958.31045 C868C
Charlie Wilson's War: the Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History / George Crile

967.73053 B672B
Black Hawk Down / Mark Bowden

973.099 V9481A
Assassination Vacation / Sarah Vowell

973.3 M4599S
1776 / David G. McCullough

973.41092 W277W
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America / Henry Wiencek

973.929 H163B
Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales / Jake Halpern

975.8724 B452M
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: a Savannah story / John Berendt

982.6 R22A
Alive: the Story of the Andes Survivors / Piers Paul Read.

996.18 AL26B
The Bounty: the True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty / Caroline Alexander

Last updated: 3/29/07

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