Nonfiction

Nonfiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that the authors of such accounts believe them to be truthful at the time of their composition. Note that reporting the beliefs of others in a nonfiction format is not necessarily an endorsement of the ultimate veracity of those beliefs, it is simply saying that it is true that people believe that (for such topics as mythology, religion). Nonfiction can als ...more

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This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
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The Madness Pill: One Doctor's Quest to Understand Schizophrenia
The Nuremberg Women: The Untold Story of the Eight Women Who Brought the Nazis to Justice
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