Non-fiction titles

Since this topic continues to come up I thought it would be good to make a list of non-fiction titles in the book.

Walden
I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing
In Cold Blood
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano
The Enormous Room

These two are more like non-novels:
Aesop's fables
Adjunct: An Undigest

I'm sure there are others...

Though it's based on real murders, I think In Cold Blood is still considered fiction. It was housed in the fiction section at my B&N at any rate.

Great idea, Perlle. Here are some more:

Autobiography/Memoir:
Confessions (the one by Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Borstral Boy (according to my library catalogue)
If This is a Man
Wild Swans
Out of Africa (the book calls this a novel, and it is indeed written in a literary style, but it's the memoirs of the author's life in Kenya)

Labyrinth of Solitude is a set of essays on Mexico

Dictionary of the Khazars sounds like it should go under the non-novel category.

I expect that there are more . . .

#2 - Though it's based on real murders, I think In Cold Blood is still considered fiction. It was housed in the fiction section at my B&N at any rate.

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1001 Books . . . calls it a "nonfiction novel". There's at least one more book on the list that fits this description, but I can't remember what it is at this moment.

#4 How very interesting! Nonfiction novel is an apt description, I suppose--so many books seem to defy easy classification.

If Aesop's Fables is counted as nonfiction, surely Metamorphoses would also be counted that way? In addition, Metamorphoses was written in verse.

Cider with rosie by Laurie Lee is apparently a memoir, from what I recall. I haven't read it though.

Wild Swans by Jung Chang sounds like it would fit this category as well.

(Touchtones not working for this title.)

Yes, Cider with Rosie is memoir. I believe so is Promise at Dawn by Gary Romain.

London Orbital by Iain Sinclair and The Emigrants, Verigo and The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald are (IMO) non-fiction, though Sebald said they were not entirely factual.

#2 - Sorry for mentioning Wild Swans again. I must have missed your entry.

Also I forgot to mention A Modest Proposal. It would be applicable since it is a long essay.

According to Wikipedia, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe is a work of "literary journalism". Who knew. Haven't read it, so I can't comment further. Just adding to the list.

Christ Stopped at Eboli is a memoir.

Two noteworthy and readable memoirs: those by French composer Hector Berlioz and by Italian sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, and St. Augustine's Confessions.

History: certainly Gibbons, Decline and fall of the Roman Empire; Huizinga, The Autumn of the Middle Ages.

Science: Galileo Galilei, both Sidereus Nuncius and Two new sciences.

Philosophy: Gödel, Escher, Bach; Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logo-Philosophicus; Nietzsche, Thus spake Zarathustra

But none of those on the 1001 list.

Whoops - apparently I misread the topic...