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All-TIME 100 Nonfiction Books. 25 Non Fiction Books Everyone Should Read. The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time. 100 great nonfiction books: a list of must-read nonfiction books, essay collections, and classic journalism Essay Collections The New Kings of Nonfiction by Ira Glass A bulletproof collection of the best narrative nonfiction from the late 90s and early 00s. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace Between them, these collections cover all of DFW's best nonfiction.

The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson Spanning HST's golden age, includes journalism from National Observer, Rolling Stone and Scanlan's. Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff "The Indignities of Coach, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Endless Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems" What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell A collection of Gladwell's best New Yorker Essays. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe Mythologies by Roland Barthes Meditations on everything from milk and striptease to toys and wrestling. Essays by E. G.K. September 2014’s Best Nonfiction Books: 7 Must-Read Titles to Shake Up Your All-Fiction Diet. Leslie Jamison. Roxane Gay. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Astra Taylor. Need I continue?

I’ll admit that I fall into the latter camp. So, nonfiction, the spotlight’s all yours: There’s a deep look into fashion; a memoir on a gender transition that’ll hit you right in the gut; a curiously hilarious tale of hours passed in a mortuary; a couple of titles for the side of you that never left college; a book that’ll feed your fiery feminist; and, of course, Lena. When you’re done, come see our picks for September’s best fiction and best YA, too. Women In Clothes by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton, and 639 Others (Blue Rider Press; Sept. 4) What happens when Roxane Gay, Lena Dunham, Tavi Gevinson, Cindy Sherman, Kim Gordon, Rachel Kushner, and Kate Zambreno (that’s just the start, really) are sourced for a book helmed by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton? Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man by Thomas Page McBee (City Lights; Sept. 9)

The 100 greatest non-fiction books. The Greatest Books: The Best Nonfiction Books - 2 to 100. 100 Best Nonfiction « Modern Library. 10 Books You Really Should Have Read In High School: An Alternate List.