Nonfiction

 

 

Awards

BCALA Literary Award for Nonfiction

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Nonfiction

National Book Award for Nonfiction

National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

Pulitzer Prize for Letters - History | Nonfiction

 

African American Nonfiction

A selection of nonfiction works by and about African Americans.

 

BBQs, Picnics, and Ice Cream

Get out the grill and cook up some BBQ with these cookbooks.

 

Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World

Selected by members of the Women's National Book Association in observance of their 75th anniversary in 1992.

 

Contemporary Memoirs

The personal experiences of the well known and unknown.

 

Culinary Memoirs

Famous and not so-famous chefs, restauranteurs, and food journalists serve up memories, meals and more.

 

Explore Your World

Did you ever wish you could explore the remote areas of the world?  Through the books on this list, based on National Geographic Adventure Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time, you can go west with Lewis and Clark, cross the pacific by raft with Thor Heyerdahl, and climb Annapurna with 13 women.  These stories and more make up some of the greatest true adventures ever told.

 

Lone Star Vittles

Cookbooks representing the variety of food traditions of Texas.

 

Microhistories

These nonfiction books explore a specific subject, often providing a different way of looking at familiar objects, products, or events.  The best microhistories use their focus on small specifics to reveal a much larger picture.

 

Sports' Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books

The favorite sports books of Sports' Illustrated's editors.