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Nonfiction FictionSelected resources related to readable nonfiction

Overbooked Nonfiction Stars & All Stars Booklists

Overbooked Nonfiction Booklists - Espionage, Legal Nonfiction, Sports Stars, Books about Reading, True Crime, Nature, Travel Tales, Memoirs, etc.

Overbooked Notable Nonfiction Lists: 2008 (excel file)

Booklists

Modern Library's Best 100 Nonfiction Works

Print Resources:

Nonfiction Readers' Advisory edited by Robert Burgin. Libraries Unlimited, 2004. ISBN: 159158115x

A Readers' Advisory book on learning about readable nonfiction by Neal Wyatt, published by ALA editions.

Selected Authors:

• Diane Ackerman
• Anthony Bourdain
• Bill Bryson
• Robert Caro
• Annie Dillard
• Dave Eggers
• Tim Flannery
• M.K. Fisher
• Malcolm Gladwell
• Michael Moore
• Hunter S. Thompson
• Studs Terkel
• Terry Tempest Williams
• Simon Winchester

Readers Advisory Links

• AART Booklists - including NF & Genre Studies
• Nonanon: Nonfiction Readers Anonymous Blog
• Narrative Nonfiction Appeal Factors - The following list of appeal factors for some of the various subgenres of narrative nonfiction was developed by members of the RUSA CODES Readers’ Advisory Committee and the PLA Readers’ Advisory Committee in conjunction with participants in the program Taking the Guess Work Out of Nonfiction Readers’ Advisory, held at ALA Annual Conference, June 26, 2005, Chicago IL.
• The Nonfiction Narrative Blog by Neal Wyatt (coming soon)
• Nonfiction Readers's Advisory Notebook from Rick Librarian. Links, lists, best practices, etc.
• Palm Beach Library's RA NF link lists
• Stranger Than Fiction - RA Workshop
• Sure Bet Narrative Nonfiction Suggestions - Compiled by the RUSA/CODES Readers' Advisory Committee and PLA Readers' Advisory Committee (2005)
• Wikipedia Nonfiction Awards

 

 

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