Non-Fiction that Reads Like Fiction

John Berendt
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil                 975.8724 Ber
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Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything        500 Bry
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail        917.40443 Bry
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Truman Capote
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences    364.1523 Cap
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Jill Conway
The Road from Coorain        921 Conway
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Stefan Fatsis
Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
793.734 Fat
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John Grishman
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town        345.766 Gri
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John Grogan
Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog        636.7527 Gro
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Miles Harvey
The Island of Lost Maps: True Story of Cartographic Crime        025.82 Har
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Haven Kimmel
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana        921 Kimmel
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Robert Kurson
Shadow Divers: The True Adventures of Two Americans Who Discovered Hitler's Lost Sub       
940.5451 Kur
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Erik Larson
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness and the Fair that Changed America
364.1523 Lar
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History        976.4139 Lar
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Frank McCourt
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir            921 McCourt
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Ben Mezrich
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
364.172 Mez
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Azar Nafisi
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books        921 Nafisi
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Mary Roach
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers          611 Roa
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Terry Ryan
The Prize Winner of Defiance, OH: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less        921 Ryan
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James L. Swanson
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer     364.152 Swa
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Patricia Volk
Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family        921 Volk
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Jeanette Walls
The Glass Castle: A Memoir            921 Walls
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Simon Winchester
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
423 Win
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Tom Wolfe
Right Stuff            629.1097 Wol
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Compiled 4/07