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Nonfiction that Reads Like Fiction

Want to learn more but hate stuffy old textbooks? Try one of these, or better yet listen to the story being told on audio. HerrickDL AdultPicks

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40 items

  • Book and Dagger

    How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

    Graham, Elyse, 1985-
    Book, 2024New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024. — 940.548673 Gra 9/24
  • The Splendid and the Vile

    a Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During The Blitz

    Larson, Erik, 1954-
    Audiobook CD, 2020[New York] : Penguin Random House, [2020] — CD 940.542121 LAR 6/20
  • The Art Thief

    a True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

    Finkel, Michael,
    Book, 2023New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2023], ©2023. — 364.16287 Fin 6/23
  • Shadow Men

    The Tangled Story of Murder, Media, and Privilege That Scandalized Jazz Age America

    Polchin, James
    eAudiobook, 2024Tantor Media, Inc, 2024
  • Master Slave Husband Wife

    An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

    Woo, Ilyon
    eBook, 2023S&S/37 Ink, 2023
  • Malört

    The Redemption of a Revered and Reviled Spirit

    Noel, Josh
    eAudiobook, 2024Tantor Media, Inc, 2024
  • Save Our Souls

    the True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder

    Pearl, Matthew,
    Book, 2025New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2025. — 910.452 Pea 1/25
  • The Divorce Colony

    How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

    White, April
    eAudiobook, 2022Hachette Audio, 2022
  • Book, 2024New York : Simon & Schuster, 2024. — 616.8582 Gag 4/24
  • These Fevered Days

    Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

    Ackmann, Martha
    eAudiobook, 2020Recorded Books, Inc., 2020
  • Book, 2022New York : Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022. — 973.924 Gra 3/22
  • Brave the Wild River

    the Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

    Sevigny, Melissa L., 1986-
    Book, 2023New York : W.W. Norton and Company, 2023. — 580.92 Sev 6/23
  • American Sherlock

    Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

    Dawson, Kate Winkler,
    Book, 2020New York : Putnam, [2020], ©2020. — 363.25092 Daw 6/20
  • The Doctors Blackwell

    How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women -- and Women to Medicine

    Nimura, Janice P.,
    Book, 2021New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2021. — 610.92 Nim 3/21
  • Book, 2024New York : Random House, 2024. — 320.973 Fin 2/24
  • Madhouse at the End of the Earth

    the Belgica's Journey Into the Dark Antarctic Night

    Sancton, Julian,
    Book, 2021New York : Crown, 2021. — 919.89 San 5/21
  • There Is No Ethan

    How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

    Akbari, Anna,
    Book, 2024New York : Grand Central, 2024. — 306.730285 Akb 6/24
  • Wastelands

    the True Story of Farm Country on Trial

    Addison, Corban, 1979-
    Book, 2022New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022] — 346.7303 Add 6/22
  • The Confidence Men

    How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History

    Fox, Margalit,
    Book, 2021New York : Random House, [2021] — 940.472 Fox 9/21