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  The Truth is Stranger...

Non-Fiction That Reads Like Fiction!

84 Charing Cross Road by: Helene Hanff (817)
Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan (910.09)
Alive by: Piers Paul Read (982)
All Over But the Shoutin' by: Rick Bragg (BIO BRA)
Angela's Ashes by: Frank McCourt (BIO MCC)
Bad Land: An American Romance by: Jonathon Raban (978)
Boy: Tales of Childhood by: Roald Dahl (YB)
Cat Who Went to Paris by: Peter Gethers (818)
A Civil Action by: Jonathon Harr (346.7303)
Deadly Feasts by: Richard Rhodes (616.8)
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by: Alfred Lansing (AUDIOBOOK)
Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer by: Richard Rhodes (630)
Friday Night Lights by: H.G. Bissinger (796.32)
Geography of the Heart by: Fenton Johnson (920)
Growing Up by: Russell Baker (BIO BAK)
Hardball: A Season in the Projects by: Daniel Coyle (796.35)
Having Our Say by: Sarah & Elizabeth Delany (929.2)
High Tide in Tuscon by: Barbara Kingsolver (814.54)
The Hot Zone by: Richard Preston (614.5)
House by: Tracy Kidder (690.837)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by: Maya Angelou (BIO ANG)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (PBK)
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle by: Madeline Blais (796.323)
Into Thin Air by: Jon Krakauer (796.52)
The Liar's Club by: Mary Karr (BIO KAR)
Little League Confidential by: Bill Geist (796.357)
Mama Makes Up Her Mind by: Bailey White (814)
A Man Called Intrepid by: William Stevenson (940.5486)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by: John Berendt (975.8)
Mindhunter by: John Douglas (363.2)
Never Cry Wolf by: Farley Mowat (PBK)
Out of Africa by: Isak Dinesen (967.6)
The Perfect Storm by: Sebastian Junger (974.45)
Roommates: My Grandfather's Story by: Max Apple (920)
Toujours Provence by: Peter Mayle (944)
Undaunted Courage by: Stephen Ambrose (917.8)
Who Killed My Daughter? by: Lois Duncan (364.1)
Young Men and Fire by: Norman Maclean (634.96)

*Much of this booklist was compiled by the subscribers of the "Fiction_L" mailing list*

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