Non-Fiction Books
Great non-fiction tells a true story in book form, which means instead of dry news, you will learn the backstory and/or the personal story of those who experienced real life events. One of the favorite types of non-fiction books for teenagers include stories about historical events – bringing history alive and making the past meaningful to our lives.
1776 by David Mccullough
An American Plague: the True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
Andy Warhol: Prince of Pop by Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan
Behind the Mask: the Life Queen Elizabeth I by Jane Resh Thomas
Beyond the Myth by Polly S. Brooks
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Bringing Down the House: the Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Darkness Over Denmark by Ellen Levine
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
Eleanor Roosevelt: a Life Discovery by Russell Freedman
Fast Food Nation: the Dark Side of the All-American Mean by Eric Schlosser
Fear and Loathing On the Campaign Trail by Hunter Thompson
Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
Getting Away With Murder: the True Story of the Emmett Till Case by Chris Crowe
Good Brother, Bad Brother: the Story of Edwin Booth & John Wilkes Booth by James Cross Giblin
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth by Elizabeth Partridge
Left for Dead: a Young Man’s Search for Justice for the Uss Indianapolis by Pete Nelson
The Life and Death of Adolph Hitler by James Cross Giblin
Longitude: the True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo by Tom Feelings
Mosque by David Macaulay
Never to Forget by Milton Meltzer
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Orchid Thief: a True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean
Phineas Gage: a Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman
The Planets by Dava Sobel
The Professor and the Madman: a Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip Hoose
The Real Revolution by Marc Aronson
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Shadow Life by Barry Denenberg
Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson
Standing Like a Stone Wall by James I. Robertson, Jr.
Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
This Land Was Made for You and Me by Elizabeth Partridge
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose
Under the Black Flag: the Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
