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Nonfiction That Reads Like A Novel

Reported books with the structure of fiction and none of the licence. The newsletter list, tidied up.

a list by Wale Okonkwo8 books

  1. The Warmth of Other Suns

    “The best of them. Three lives, one great migration.”

    Isabel Wilkerson

    Shelve
    1
  2. Say Nothing

    Patrick Radden Keefe

    Shelve
    2
  3. Bad Blood

    “A thriller where you already know the ending and it still grips.”

    John Carreyrou

    Shelve
    3
  4. The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    “Long. Not a page of it wasted.”

    Richard Rhodes

    Shelve
    4
  5. Midnight in Chernobyl

    Adam Higginbotham

    Shelve
    5
  6. Empire of Pain

    Patrick Radden Keefe

    Shelve
    6
  7. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    “The one that taught the rest of them how to do it.”

    Rebecca Skloot

    Shelve
    7
  8. Hiroshima

    “Thirty thousand words. Changed what magazines thought they were for.”

    John Hersey

    Shelve
    8