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What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative. - Tracy Kidder.

Nonfiction encompasses a wealth of reading possibilities - history, essays, memoirs, scientific research, travel guides, cookbooks - essentially everything that is based on fact, real events and real people. Recent nonfiction titles for the Kindle that you might have missed:


Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives, by Thomas French. Hyperion. Print Length: 304 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (13 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Welcome to the savage and surprising world of Zoo Story, an unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants, both animal and human. Based on six years of research, the book follows a handful of unforgettable characters at Tampa’ s Lowry Park Zoo: an alpha chimp with a weakness for blondes, a ferocious tiger who revels in Obsession perfume, and a brilliant but tyrannical CEO known as El Diablo Blanco. Thomas French, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, chronicles the action with vivid power: Wild elephants soaring above the Atlantic on their way to captivity. Predators circling each other in a lethal mating dance. Primates plotting the overthrow of their king. The sweeping narrative takes the reader from the African savannah to the forests of Panama and deep into the inner workings of a place some describe as a sanctuary and others condemn as a prison." - Amazon.

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, by Eliza Griswold. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Print Length: 336 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"The tenth parallel - the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator - is a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity and Islam collide. More than half of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims live along the tenth parallel; so do sixty percent of the world’s 2 billion Christians. Here, in the buzzing megacities and swarming jungles of Africa and Asia, is where the two religions meet; their encounter is shaping the future of each faith, and of whole societies as well. An award-winning investigative journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold has spent the past seven years traveling between the equator and the tenth parallel: in Nigeria, the Sudan, and Somalia, and in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The stories she tells in The Tenth Parallel show us that religious conflicts are also conflicts about land, water, oil, and other natural resources, and that local and tribal issues are often shaped by religious ideas. Above all, she makes clear that, for the people she writes about, one’s sense of God is shaped by one’s place on earth; along the tenth parallel, faith is geographic and demographic. ... an essential work about the conflicts over religion, nationhood and natural resources that will remake the world in the years to come." - Amazon.

A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities : Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire , by J. C. McKeown. Oxford University Press. Print Length: 272 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (34 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"...a whimsical and captivating collection of odd facts, strange beliefs, outlandish opinions, and other highly amusing trivia of the ancient Romans. We tend to think of the Romans as a pragmatic people with a ruthlessly efficient army, an exemplary legal system, and a precise and elegant language. A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities shows that the Romans were equally capable of bizarre superstitions, logic-defying customs, and often hilariously derisive views of their fellow Romans and non-Romans. Classicist J. C. McKeown has organized the entries in this entertaining volume around major themes - The Army, Women, Religion and Superstition, Family Life, Medicine, Slaves, Spectacles - allowing for quick browsing or more deliberate consumption. J. C. McKeown is Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison" - Amazon.

It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences, by June Casagrande. Ten Speed Press. Print Length: 224 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Great writing isn’t born, it’s built - sentence by sentence. But too many writers - and writing guides - overlook this most important unit. The result? Manuscripts that will never be published and writing careers that will never begin. In this wickedly humorous manual, language columnist June Casagrande uses grammar and syntax to show exactly what makes some sentences great - and other sentences suck. With chapters on 'Conjunctions That Kill' and 'Words Gone Wild,' this lighthearted guide is perfect for anyone who’s dead serious about writing, from aspiring novelists to nonfiction writers, conscientious students to cheeky literati. So roll up your sleeves and prepare to craft one bold, effective sentence after another. Your readers will thank you." - from the Trade Paperback edition.

The Knitgrrl Guide To Professional Knitwear Design, by Shannon Okey. Cooperative Press. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (17 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"...the first-ever book targeted to designers of all experience levels who want to create, communicate and sell their work professionally to magazines, publishers, consumers and other markets. Written by an industry insider, the Guide takes a comprehensive, unflinching look behind the scenes that no knit or crochet designer can afford to be without. Includes interviews with top designers, editors and professionals who tell it like it is so you can hit the ground running, a guide to responsible social media use, information on distribution, printing, online publishing and much, much more. Shannon Okey has written or edited a dozen fiber arts books for major publishers, including the Knitgrrl series, Spin to Knit, Alt Fiber, the second edition of Knitting for Dummies, and many more.

Marcus of Umbria: What an Italian Dog Taught an American Girl about Love, by Justine van der Leun. Rodale. Print Length: 224 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (17 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Tired of her life in New York, van der Leun takes a vacation in the small town of Collelungo, in Umbria, Italy, where she falls in love with a rakish farmer named Emanuele. Soon she is back in Collelungo for good, moving in with Emanuele and his family on their sheep farm. When Justine finds an abandoned hunting dog, she promptly takes it in as her own. The dog, whom she names Marcus, becomes her constant companion around the Umbrian countryside as she observes the rituals of life on a farm, from the work of sheep herding, pig slaughtering, and horse training to the everyday rituals of family life. When her romance with Emanuele turns sour, she finds it hard to pry herself out of Italy and wonders if she can return to New York. And if her thoroughly Italian dog can survive there." - Hilary Hatton for Booklist.