Nonfiction

True stories, essays, and accounts of the real world — history, science, memoir, and more.

The Egyptian Book of the deadUnknown Author

★3.9

Mythology & FolkloreHistory

Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansPlutarch

★4.1

BiographyHistory

Dialogues Concerning Natural ReligionDavid Hume

★4.2

FictionPhilosophy

Alexander the Great / Makers of HistoryJacob Abbott

★3.6

HistoryHistorical Fiction

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis BonaparteKarl Marx

★4.2

Political ScienceHistory

In Times Like TheseNellie L. McClung

★3.8

AdventureFantasy

HereticsG. K. Chesterton

★4.4

ReligionPhilosophy

The love letters of Abelard and HeloiseHéloïse Peter Abelard

★3.7

PhilosophyRomance

The People of the AbyssJack London

★4.1

FictionPolitical Science

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806William Clark Meriwether Lewis

★4.1

HistoryBiography

The Anabasis of AlexanderArrian

★4.2

BiographyFiction

EmileJean-Jacques Rousseau

★3.6

PhilosophyEssays

Émile; Or, Concerning Education; ExtractsJean-Jacques Rousseau

★3.6

EducationHistorical Fiction

The Practice and Science of DrawingHarold Speed

★4.1

ReferenceFiction

Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White HouseElizabeth Keckley

★3.9

BiographyFiction

Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the SouthTimothy Thomas Fortune

★4.1

AdventureChildren's Literature

In memoriamAlfred Tennyson Tennyson

★4.2

EssaysPoetry

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to SexCharles Darwin

★4.0

HistoryFiction

The RoadJack London

★3.9

BiographyAdventure

What I believeBertrand Russell

★4.1

FictionEssays

The Book of the DeadE. A. Wallis Budge

★3.9

FictionHistory

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolutionkniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

★4.2

PhilosophyFiction

The outermost houseHenry Beston

★4.1

Science & NatureFiction

The Ego and His OwnMax Stirner

★4.1

PhilosophyPsychology