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Nonfiction Booklists

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Award Winners

Automotive Forum

Booklist Center All kinds of best book lists. (Not updated since July 15, 2004)

http://home.comcast.net/~dwtaylor1/categorylist.html#NONFICTION%20(GENERAL)

BookSense Picks

http://www.booksense.com/bspicks/index.jsp

Library Journal Best Books 2007

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6510658.html

Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books

www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnonfiction.html

Morton Grove Webrary Best Nonfiction Books of late 2004 and 2005

http://www.webrary.org/rs/flbklists/bestnonfic05.html

National Book Award Winners

http://www.nationalbook.org/nbawinners.html

Pulitzer Prize Winners (Search by category: Biographies, General Nonfiction, History)

http://www.pulitzer.org

Biographies

Bio-Adversity

http://sachem.suffolk.lib.ny.us/advisor/bioadversity.htm

Biographies

http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/library/reading/adult/Bios.htm

Biographies about People Triumphing over Adversity

http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Guides/IfYouLike/biographies.asp

Biographies about Persecution and Escape

http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Guides/IfYouLike/Persecution.asp

Biographies/Autobiographies/Memoirs

http://www.lib.ci.tucson.az.us/pageturners/biosautosnew.htm

Contemporary Memoirs

http://www.hcpl.lib.tx.us/booklists/contmem.htm

Extraordinary Lives

http://www.hclib.org/pub/books/BookListAction.cfm?iPacSession=1&list_num=300

Great Memoirs by Women

http://www.hclib.org/pub/books/BookListAction.cfm?iPacSession=1&list_num=205

Memoir Stars

http://www.overbooked.org/booklists/nf/memoirs.html

Memoirs for Discussion

http://www.webrary.org/rs/flbklists/memoirs.html

Book Clubs

Book Browse (fiction and nonfiction)

http://www.bookbrowse.com/reading_guides/

Nonfiction Reader’s Guides, Houghton Mifflin

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/readers_guides/nonfiction.shtml

Reading Group Best Bets (fiction and nonfiction)

http://www.overbooked.org/booklists/subjects/themes/readinggroup.html

Reading Group Guides for Biography & Memoir

http://readinggroupguides.com/findaguide/biography_memoir.asp

Reading Group Guides for Nonfiction & Current Events

http://readinggroupguides.com/findaguide/nonfiction.asp

Related Reading (A suggested list of fiction and nonfiction book club books centered around different topics.)

http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/relrdg.html

Tattered Cover Book Store Nonfiction Suggestions for Book Groups

(Click on Book Clubs, then on nonfiction.)

http://www.tatteredcover.com

Food

Cooked Books (fiction & nonfiction)

http://www.overbooked.org/booklists/subjects/themes/cookedbooks.html

Food for Thought

http://www.hclib.org/pub/books/BookListAction.cfm?iPacSession=1&list_num=195

Reads Like Fiction

Get Real—Nonfiction for Fiction Lovers

http://www.downersgrovelibrary.org/pages/getreal2.html

Narrative Nonfiction

If You Like Longitude by Dava Sobel

http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Guides/IfYouLike/Longitude.asp

Nonfiction that Reads Like Fiction

http://www.hersheylibrary.org/lists/HPLra6.htm

Nonfiction that Reads Like Fiction

http://www.smpl.org/reading/nonfiction.htm

Nonfiction that Reads Like Fiction [2003]

http://www.webrary.org/rs/flbklists/nonfic2.html

Nonfiction that Reads Like Fiction: Page-turning Nonfiction

http://www.overbooked.org/booklists/nf/nonfictionlikefiction.html

Novel Nonfiction

http://www.readersclub.org/features/feature.asp?id=65

Sure Bet Narrative Nonfiction Suggestions from ALA Conference

http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/codes/codessection/codescomm/codesreadadv/Compiled_Annotations.doc

Science & Nature

Aventis Prizes for Science Books

http://www.aventisprizes.com/about_prevwinn.htm

Math and Science Reading for Pleasure

http://sachem.suffolk.lib.ny.us/advisor/jamiescience/mathscience.html

National Outdoor Book Awards

http://www.isu.edu/departments/outdoor/bookpol.htm

Nature Booklist

http://www.overbooked.org/booklists/nf/nature.html

Science & Nature for Everyone

http://www.hclib.org/pub/books/BookListAction.cfm?iPacSession=1&list_num=166

Who Would Think Science Books Could Be So Much Fun?

http://www.hclib.org/pub/books/BookListAction.cfm?list_num=229

Travel

Armchair Travel

http://www.readersclub.org/features/feature.asp?id=68

BiblioTravel A site where you can search for fiction and nonfiction set in distinct locales.

http://www.bibliotravel.com

Great Reads for Independent Women Travelers

http://www.vpl.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/his/Highlights/Women_Travelers.html

Thomas Cook Travel Book Awards

http://www.thomascookpublishing.com/travelbookawards.htm

Travel Tales

http://www.overbooked.org/booklists/nf/traveltales.html

Travel Writing: the Grand Tour

http://www.hclib.org/pub/books/BookListAction.cfm?iPacSession=1&list_num=168

Travelers’ Tales: Journeys, Treks & Adventures of a Lifetime

http://sachem.suffolk.lib.ny.us/advisor/traveltales.htm

True Adventure

Adventures

http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/library/reading/adult/adventure.htm

Exploration and Discovery

http://www.hclib.org/pub/books/BookListAction.cfm?iPacSession=1&list_num=171

Outdoor Adventure and Survival

http://www.hclib.org/pub/books/BookListAction.cfm?iPacSession=1&list_num=169

Sea Stories (fiction and nonfiction)

http://www.overbooked.org/booklists/subjects/themes/seastories.html

Tragedy and Triumph: True Stories of Survival

http://sachem.suffolk.lib.ny.us/advisor/survive.htm

True Crime

Just the Facts, Ma’am: PLA Presentation True Crime Handout

http://www.pla.org/ala/pla/plaevents/nationalconf/program/thursdayprograms/factswolfbiblio.doc

Killer Booklist—True Crime, Providence Public Library

http://www.provlib.org/accessinfo/booklists/truecrime.htm

True Crime, Boone County Public Library

http://www.bcpl.org/nonfictionreads.html#True%20Crime

True Crime Duos: Fiction/Nonfiction Pairings

http://www.webrary.org/rs/flbklists/Duos.html

True Crime—Not Murder—Books

http://www.webrary.org/rs/flbklists/truecrime.html

Miscellaneous

Books Into Movies, Reality Based

http://www.epl.ca/EPLMaster.cfm?id=BOOKMOVIES

Contemporary Creative Nonfiction Reading List

http://www.english.uiowa.edu/nonfiction/readinglist.html

History’s Mysteries “A reading list of the unsolved, the controversial, the strange, and (possibly) the answers to some of history’s most intriguing puzzles.”

http://sachem.suffolk.lib.ny.us/advisor/history'smysteries.htm

Literary Gardening

http://www.hclib.org/pub/books/LiteraryGardening.cfm?iPacSession=1

National Public Radio Books Page

http://www.npr.org/books

Nonfiction for Sleepless Nights: Scary Nonfiction

http://horror.about.com/od/toppicks/tp/tp_nonfiction.htm

Quirky Collections: a list of quirky, humorous, and unusual poetry collections

http://www.hcpl.lib.tx.us/booklists/quirky.htm

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