Discover Nonfiction That Inspires
Nonfiction doesn’t have to be boring. These are some of the best true stories you will find in print, eBook, and digital audio
Latest Book Reviews
Here are the latest reviews of nonfiction books. Click the next page to load more reviews.
Review of Save Our Souls
Review of Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder by Matthew Pearl Rating ***** A shipwreck. Survival on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. Then toss in some backstabbing and murder, and you have the story behind Save Our
Review of Wavewalker
Review of Wavewalker: A Memoir of Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood Rating ***** The author sums up this story with a comment made in one of the final chapters, where she says she felt like she was trapped in someone else’s dream. That dream was
Review of Wastelands
Review of Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial by Corbin AddisonRating ***** Wastelands is a story about odor. It’s also a story about large corporations putting profits above doing the right thing. The book shares a similar theme with the book Toms
Review of On Wings of Eagles
Review of On Wings of Eagles: The Inspiring True Story of One Man’s Patriotic Spirit–and His Heroic Mission to Save His Countrymen by Ken Follett Rating **** 1/2 This book tells the story of a rescue mission undertaken and funded by Texas businessman Ross Perot
A slave story
Review of Never Caught: The Washingtons’ relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge Written by Erica Armstrong Dunbar Rating ***** Slavery got its start in Africa when one tribe would overpower another tribe and subjugate the surviving members of the conquered tribe. It wasn’t
Review of Zenith Man
Review of Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom by McCracken Poston Jr. Rating ***** You can’t judge a book by its cover—or, in this case, its title. When I first read the title of this book, I did not react positively