Category Notable Nonfiction

White Walls A Memoir about Motherhood, Daughterhood and the Mess In Between Judy Batalion Judy Batalion grew up in a house filled with endless piles of junk and layers of crumbs and dust; suffocated by tuna fish cans, old papers…

The Other Woman My Years with O.J. Simpson Paula Barbieri  The former girlfriend of O.J. Simpson reveals the “real” O.J., describing what happened during the explosive days before the trial and her daily visits with him during the criminal trial

The New York Nobody Knows William B. Helmreich Travel As a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called “Last Stop.” They would pick a subway line, ride it to its final destination, and…

The Devil in the White City Erik Larson  Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham,…

Seabiscuit An American Legend Laura Hillenbrand  Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success…

Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten…

The Locked Door Freida McFadden Mystery Thriller Some doors are locked for a reason… While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day…

The Girl in the Leaves Robert Scott True Crime In the fall of 2010, in the all-American town of Apple Valley, Ohio, four people disappeared without a trace: Stephanie Sprang; her friend, Tina Maynard; and Tina’s two children, thirteen-year-old Sarah…

American Black Widow Gregg Olsen True Crime Colorado, 1976. When Reverend Mike Fuller and his beautiful wife Sharonarrive in the sleepy town of Rocky Ford, local residents think something’s off about the new couple. The God-fearing minister is gruff and…

American Mother Gregg Olsen True Crime At 5.02 pm on June 5, 1986, an emergency call came into the local sheriff’s office in the small town of Auburn, Washington State. A distressed housewife, Stella Nickell, said her husband Bruce was…