Best Nonfiction Book Recommendations

These genre-bending reads are both horrifying and fantastical.

Play "follow the leader" with biographies about history’s most notable people.

Get lost in stories of survival, discovery, and determination.

Rev up your mind—and your pulse—with these action-packed novels set during World War II.

The pioneering ecofeminist and Woman and Nature author discusses her book and today's discriminatory climate.

Author and filmmaker Catherine O’Sullivan Shorr first met singer and Warhol star Nico one brief summer day, when she was making the biggest decision of her life.

These works started the dialogue; we're continuing the conversation.

Let these words of wisdom from Pat Conroy, William Styron, Natalie Goldberg, and others inspire you to finish that book.

Celebrate the Voting Rights Act of 1965 with these influential reads.

Read what anthropologist and author Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has to say right meow!

Forced into hiding in swamps and forests, Jack and Rochelle stood by each other as they fought the Nazis until the Soviet liberation of Poland in 1944.

Historian and author Bruce Lee breaks it down.

Author Sven Lindqvist takes readers on historical journey across the Sahara Desert and the African continent.

Fire up the coals for a couple of recipes from The Complete Book of Outdoor Cookery.

Before squad goals, there were sidekicks.

Dive deeper into this week's top stories.

These authors redefine the golden age.

The acclaimed writer of Chaos shares a handful of nonfiction works that have inspired his own.

Gloria Steinem reflects on Dorothy Dinnerstein's feminist classic and gender equality in early societies.

Gloria Steinem discusses the continued importance of Marge Piercy's sci-fi classic, Woman on the Edge of Time.