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Montgomery Library's Guide to Genre Reading

Nonfiction - General

General nonfiction refers to books about factual topics. Biographies, which are a type of nonfiction, are listed here.

Selected Titles

Find these books on the New Books/Leisure Reading cart by the Library Help Desk or on the shelves in the Mainstacks area.

General Nonfiction

These titles and others may be found in Mainstacks on Montgomery Library's main floor. 

DS 119.76 .T488 2023   A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (Pulitzer Prize Winner - General Nonfiction)    
GN 780.25 .C55 2024     After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations    
GV 862.5 .P67 2023     Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments    
GV 1469.6 .R54 2022   Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons / Ben Riggs    
HD 45 .S925 2024   Burn Book: A Tech Love Story    
HD 9993 .T694 L442513   The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World's Imagination / Jens Andersen    
HM 1111 .B76 2020   The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life    
HV 4506 .N6 E45 2021   Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City / Andrea Elliott    
HV 6515 .H868 2023     Crimes of the Centuries: The Cases that Changed Us    
HV 6529 .M33 2023   Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America    
PN 1999 .M25 R63 2024     MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios    
PR 4034 .P73 F43 2023     The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love    
SD 411.52.S56 A3 2021   Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest    
Q 175.32 .K45 M328 2022   Understanding How Science Explains the World    
QB 43.3 .O88 2022   Astronomy: The Human Quest for Understanding    
QE 705 .A1 B35 2022   Paleontology: An Illustrated History    
QL89 .O25 2022   The United States of Cryptids / J. W. Ocker    
RA 395 .A3 K45 2021     Exploring American Healthcare Through 50 Historic Treasures    
RA 448.5 .N4 V55 2022     Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America    
RC 386 .P475 2023   A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain