Non-fiction
Self-help, leadership, history, art and true crime are just some of the non-fiction reading lists AbeBooks staff have curated. Non-fiction book fans will surely find their next great read among our non-fiction reading lists.
Let it Be, released in May, 1970, was The Beatles’ final album before the group’s break-up. This book is the official account of the songs created for that album. It depicts the songwriting, recording sessions, and conversations during the project.
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The New Naturalist Series is an on-going series of books published by Collins that focuses on natural history. The series, famous for its dust jacket designs, began in 1945 with Butterflies by E.B. Ford and more than 100 titles have been published.
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From Silent Spring to Gorillas in the Mist, this list features books published between 1911 and 1999 that highlighted environments and species in danger.
Big, bold and beautiful, art books are the perfect addition to your coffee table or bookshelf. This list of 15 essential art books spans centuries, movements, and mediums.
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This selection of top books about leadership was carefully chosen from bestseller lists, Forbes, and even from the recommendations of Bill Gates and Barack Obama.
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From the 1936 Olympics in Berlin to the football fields of Odessa, Texas to the summit of Mt. Everest, here are 10 incredible stories detailing the greatest sports moments in history.
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There's no shortage of fascinating true crime books out there - this list of the 50 best true crime books only scratches the surface. How many have you read?
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Books designed to improve one's self have been around for centuries and the genre, as we know it, began to take shape in the middle of the 19th century with a book aptly called "self-help" by a wonderfully named man called Samuel Smiles.
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This selection of 50 non-fiction books makes shopping for great literature easy. Memoirs, history books, biographies and much more.
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There is a special skill required to making food sound interesting on the pages of a book and that means you should pick your food memoirs carefully.
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Typography is the art of arranging type and that includes the selection of typefaces, the point size and the leading. A typographer is someone who designs typefaces.
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At least 15,000 books have been written about Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States. If you wish to learn about the man then you are not going to be restricted by choice. (AbeBooks alone has more than 67,000 copies of books with ‘Abraham Lincoln’ in the title).
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Politics was Winston Churchill’s secondary job. His passion was writing and he was a professional author, who just happened to be one of the key politicians of the 20th century.
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From how to use plants and herbs to make potions for everyday healing to harnessing the moon's energies to achieve your desires, here's 10 witchcraft books perfect for beginner and experienced witches alike.
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Our world history is vast, and these 30 books are only the tip of the iceberg. This list of the best history books includes bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize winners and editor's picks from distinguished historians and biographers.
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