Category Notable Nonfiction

Look Me In The Eye John Elder Robison Memoir From the time he was three or four years old, John Elder Robison realised that he was different from other people. He was unable to make eye contact or connect with…

When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor…

Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance Memoir The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty…

The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down Anne Fadiman  Memoir

If You Tell Gregg Olsen True Crime After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.…

Schindler’s Ark Thomas Keneally Biography  The acclaimed bestselling classic of Holocaust literature, adapted into the award-winning film Schindler”s List In the shadow of Auschwitz, as thousands faced death in Nazi-occupied Poland, an unlikely saviour emerged. Oskar Schindler was a heavy-drinking,…

Solito Javier Zamora Memoir Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago—“one day, you’ll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.”   Javier Zamora’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El…

Tisha Robert Specht Memoir “From the time I’d been a girl, I’d been thrilled with the idea of living on a frontier. So when I was offered the job of teaching school in a gold-mining settlement called Chicken, I accepted…

The Happiest Man On Earth Eddie Jaku Memoir Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down. On November 9, 1938, during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, the Night of…

I Am Malala Malala Yousafzai Memoir I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren’t allowed to…