Some Very Good Fiction-Like Real Stories
Explore captivating fiction-like real stories with our curated list of books. Dive into true tales that read like novels, blending reality with the thrill of fiction.
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The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
An account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 relates the stories of two men who shaped the history of the event--architect Daniel H. Burnham, …
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Random Family
by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
A nonfiction story of young people in the ghetto, as girls become mothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation.
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Stiff
by Mary Roach
An oddly compelling, often hilarious forensic exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.
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Living to Tell the Tale
by Gabriel García Márquez
From the Nobel Laureate writer Marquez comes a magnificent piece of writing that finds him telling the story of his life from his birth in …
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • We all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of …
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Name All the Animals
by Alison Smith
A story of grief and secret love, of a family holding on to the memory of a lost child, "Name all the Animals" is an …
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A Thousand Days in Venice
by Marlena De Blasi
De Blasi, a chef and food writer from St. Louis, begins a whirlwind romance with a man in Venice.
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Blue Blood
by Edward Conlon
The life of a New York City police officer, with the NYPD running through his veins: a highly anticipated nonfiction epic-destined to be a classic. …
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Rats
by Robert Sullivan
Behold the rat, dirty and disgusting! Robert Sullivan turns the lowly rat into the star of the most perversely intriguing, remarkable, and unexpectedly elegant book …
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The Oath
by Khassan Baiev
A physician who grew up in war-ravaged Chechnya describes his experiences under fire as a surgeon caught up in the conflict, detailing his difficult work …
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Love in the Driest Season
by Neely Tucker
Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially …
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Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A special 25th anniversary edition of the beloved book that has changed millions of lives with the story of …
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Truth & Beauty
by Ann Patchett
What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when the person you promise to …
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Samurai William
by Giles Milton
With all the adventure, derring-do, and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, Nathaniel's Nutmeg, acclaimed historian Giles Milton dazzles readers with the true story …
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Blood Done Sign My Name
by Timothy B. Tyson
The author returns to his hometown of Oxford, North Carolina, to make sense of the thirty-year-old murder of a black man by a Klansman, and …