Non-fiction
Every non-fiction author we cover, with each series in the right reading order.
Non-fiction covers the real: history, science, ideas, and lives actually lived. Where an author writes in a set order, you'll find it here.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Before Taylor Jenkins Reid became a novelist known for contemporary fiction that explores love, ambition, and the versions of ourselves...
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Delia Owens
Delia Owens is an American author and wildlife scientist who won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing before turning...
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Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman is a Swedish author who writes contemporary fiction, novellas, and nonfiction. His work has been published in more...
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Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown is an American author who writes young adult fantasy novels, best known for the Red Rising series that...
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Heather Morris
Heather Morris is a New Zealand author and screenwriter best known for The Tattooist of Auschwitz. She grew up in...
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Tara Westover
Tara Westover is a historian and memoirist who writes about the tension between self-invention and family loyalty. She grew up...
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Ernest Cline
Ernest Cline is an American author of science fiction novels and a screenwriter. He is also a spoken word artist....
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Riley Sager
Riley Sager is the pen name of American author Todd Ritter, who writes horror and thriller novels. His debut novel,...
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Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harkness is an American author and historian of science and medicine. She is known for her All Souls series...
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Maggie O’Farrell
Maggie O’Farrell, an Irish author, writes fiction and historical fiction novels. Her novel Hamnet won the 2020 Women’s Prize for...
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Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-American author and physician who turned personal displacement into universal stories. He practiced medicine for ten...
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Jack Carr
Jack Carr writes military thrillers, hosts the Danger Close podcast, and co-authored the nonfiction work Targeted: Beirut, drawing all of...
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Adam Kay
Adam Kay is a British author and screenwriter, formerly a doctor. He is best known for This Is Going to...
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James McBride
James McBride is an American author and musician who writes historical fiction and nonfiction. He grew up in Brooklyn, New...
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Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak is an Australian author who writes young adult novels and children's books. Growing up in Sydney, Zusak became...
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Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist. She grew up in the American Southwest and Welch, West Virginia, experiencing...
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Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer is an American writer, journalist, and mountaineer known for his non-fiction books about outdoor adventures and investigative journalism....
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Katie Sise
Katie Sise is an American novelist who writes domestic suspense centered on women navigating secrets and lies. Her sixth novel,...
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Wally Lamb
Wally Lamb is an American novelist whose fiction draws on the small-town Connecticut landscape where he grew up. Born and...
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Stella Rimington
Stella Rimington is a British author who writes spy thrillers and is known for her Liz Carlyle series. She is...
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Annabel Monaghan
Annabel Monaghan writes contemporary romance novels and non-fiction. Before focusing on writing, she worked as an investment banker and taught...
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Tracy Rees
Tracy Rees is a Welsh author who writes historical fiction, women's fiction, and romance and became the first winner of...
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William P. Young
William P. Young is a Canadian novelist who writes suspense fiction that wrestles with faith, loss, and forgiveness. Raised among...
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Harper Lee
Harper Lee was an American novelist from Monroeville, Alabama, the daughter of a former newspaper editor and lawyer. She was...
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Scott McEwen
Scott McEwen is an American author who writes military fiction and non-fiction, drawing on a background that includes law, military...
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Adrienne Young
Adrienne Young is an American author known for her New York Times books, Sky in the Deep and The Girl...
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Tomi Adeyemi
Tomi Adeyemi writes young adult fantasy novels, best known for Children of Blood and Bone. This debut novel landed at...
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Jenny Lawson
Jenny Lawson is an American author and blogger known for her candid explorations of mental illness through dark humor and...
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Nicola Yoon
Nicola Yoon is a Jamaican-American novelist who writes young adult romance, and she has also co-authored collaborative fiction. She grew...
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Noah Hawley
Noah Hawley is an American author of literary fiction. He is also an Emmy, Golden Globe, PEN, Critics’ Choice, and...
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James Nestor
James Nestor is an American author and journalist who writes narrative nonfiction about science, health, and the natural world. His...
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Jennifer Worth
Jennifer Worth was an English nurse and author who turned her experiences delivering babies in postwar London into a cultural...
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Anne Glenconner
Anne Glenconner is an English author known for her memoirs about her life at the heart of British aristocracy and...
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015. That's the year Viet Thanh Nguyen published The Sympathizer and changed the conversation about war, memory, and who gets...
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Helen Fielding
Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter who writes comic fiction about modern womanhood. The Guardian named her 1996...
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Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney is an American novelist who writes contemporary fiction about family, money, and the complications that bind people...
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Sonia Purnell
Sonia Purnell is a British author of non-fiction books, known for her lively style and extensive research. She made her...
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Candice Carty-Williams
Candice Carty-Williams is a British novelist who arrived in 2019 with Queenie, a debut that made her the first Black...
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Jay Asher
Jay Asher is an American author of young adult novels. While growing up, he was encouraged to pursue all his...
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Nick Stephenson
Nick Stephenson is an English author of thrillers and suspense novels. He launched his career in 2013 with the novel...
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Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger is a writer whose work spans narrative nonfiction, journalism, and documentary filmmaking, often focusing on people confronting extreme...
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Han Kang
Han Kang is a South Korean novelist, short story writer, and poet whose fiction explores the violence inscribed on bodies...
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Luke Jennings
Luke Jennings is a British author and journalist known for his Killing Eve series of books. Before becoming a writer,...
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Caz Frear
Caz Frear is an English crime writer who arrived with Sweet Little Lies, a debut that earned immediate recognition and...
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Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton is a Canadian-born New Zealand novelist and screenwriter who made her debut in 2008 with The Rehearsal and...
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Jennifer Ryan
Jennifer Ryan writes historical fiction rooted in the English countryside where she grew up. She spent years editing nonfiction books...
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Alice Sebold
Alice Sebold is an American author who writes literary fiction novels and non-fiction books. She is known for her raw...
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Jordan Belfort
Jordan Belfort is an American author who writes nonfiction memoirs about his years as a stockbroker, a life that began...
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Chanel Miller
Chanel Miller is an American writer and artist who brought her story to the world with Know My Name, a...
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Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Kiran Millwood Hargrave is a British writer who works across children's literature and adult fiction, with roots in poetry and...
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