Narrative Nonfiction
There are many authors whose books are classified as narrative nonfiction but few that write enough to break out as highlighted authors. Unlike other sub-genre pages, this page contains only a suggested list of books that meet this sub-genre challenge. Your reading choices are not limited to just those on this page. Searching on a topic you are interested in exploring will likely lead you to one or more narrative nonfiction books on that topic.
Narrative Nonfiction Books to Explore
Check out these narrative nonfiction titles.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Katherine Boo)
The Big Short (Michael Lewis)
Seabiscuit (Laura Hillenbrand)
Friday Night Lights (H. G. Bissinger)
Into Thin Air (John Krakauer)
The Perfect Storm (Sebastian Junger)
The Blindside (Michael Lewis)
Black Hawk Down (Mark Bowden)
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much (Allison Hoover Bartlett)
In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
Wild (Cheryl Strayed)
Educated (Tara Westover)
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Azar Nafisi)
The Orchid Thief (Susan Orlean)
Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (John Berendt)
The Right Stuff (Tom Wolfe)
I Am Malala (Malala Yousafzai)
Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
A Promised Land (Barack Obama)
The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
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Best Sellers in Narrative Nonfiction
Have you read any of these best-sellers in the narrative nonfiction genre?
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