If you like your beach reads with a dose of truth, pack these PEOPLE-approved nonfiction summer books for your next vacation.

Best known for horror and mystery, with some big swerves (like the novella that inspired “The Shawshank Redemption”), King is a surprisingly warm writing coach. The book is partly a memoir of ...

Winter’s chill offers the perfect excuse to settle in with a captivating book, and the 2025 nonfiction lineup ... of the most pivotal moments of 20th-century history. You Didn’t Hear This ...

Our favorite nonfiction books of the year, several of them just the very best books of the year ... What do Charles Dickens, nineteenth century chronicler of social issues, and Prince, modern ...

They wanted to know where the poetry and the genre fiction were — and they also wanted to let us know which books were missing. When the Book Review published a list of the 100 Best Books of the ...

The streaming giant had its work cut out for it, given that the book features on multiple ... spot on Goodreads' list of the best novels of the 20th Century. Remarkably, it occupies the fourth ...

Ward is one of the most gifted writers of her generation; in addition to this indelible work of nonfiction, she’s twice been awarded the National Book Award ... stories of 20th century Black ...