Non-Fiction

Love non-fiction but looking for something that reads a bit more like fiction? Then look no further than this list of narrative non-fiction books like Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption. Unbroken tells the unbelievable story of Louis Zamperini, a competitor in the 1936 Olympics who was forced to take… Read More

We all think our families are crazy, dysfunctional and flawed but in the case of books like The Glass Castle, these descriptions barely scrape the surface. Jeanette Walls recounts events from her unconventional, nomadic childhood spent touring the mountains and desert towns of the American Southwest led by her eccentric and at times destructive parents… Read More

In times of uncertainty, we latch onto anything which gives us a sense of hope that things will get better, this is why books like The Tattooist of Auschwitz and the others listed below are so popular. They depict stories of struggle, adversity and people coming out the other side of some very trying times… Read More

Nothing is more inspiring than reading about another person’s triumphant journey over adversity, beating the odds stacked against them in order to succeed and books like Educated, a memoir by Tara Westover, is an example of just that. Born into a Mormon fundamentalist family where the millennium, hospitals and the public school system were feared,… Read More

The best selling book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything written by Steven D.Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner was a revelation when it was written. It took economic concepts considered boring and dull by most people and made it accessible to millions of people by applying these ideas to interesting issues… Read More