Narrative Nonfiction 

• The Happiness Effect : how social media is driving a generation to appear perfect at any cost

• Sleights of Mind : what the neuroscience of magic reveals about our everyday deceptions

• Drive : the surprising truth about what motivates us     

•  Originals : how non-conformists move the world     

• Blink: the power of thinking without thinking  

• Getting gamers : the psychology of video games and their impact on the people who play them     

• Quiet power : the secret strengths of introverts     

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

• Think Again; The power of knowing what you don’t know

• The science of fear : how the culture of fear manipulates your brain 

• Under pressure : confronting the epidemic of stress and anxiety in girls 

• Exactly what to say : the magic words for influence and impact

• Never say you can't survive : how to get through hard times by making up stories

• Chatter : the voice in your head, why it matters, and how to harness it

• Rewire your anxious brain : how to use the neuroscience of fear to end anxiety, panic, & worry

•  The obstacle is the way : the timeless art of turning trials into triumph

You can find other titles like these in the 100 section of the library 

• Michael Lewis’ The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

• Ron Paul Liberty defined : 50 essential issues that affect our freedom

• The populist explosion : how the Great Recession transformed American and European politics 

• Electoral dysfunction : a survival manual for American voters 

• Votes of confidence : a young person's guide to American elections 

• SuperFreakonomics : global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance 

• Shop class as soulcraft : an inquiry into the value of work 

• The Fed : the inside story of how the world's most powerful financial institution drives the market 

• The essential Bernie Sanders and his vision for America

• The undoing project : a friendship that changed our minds  

• Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis  

• The new geography of jobs 

You can find other titles in the 300 section of the library 

• The wisdom of Walt : leadership lessons from the happiest place on earth

• Money out loud : all the financial stuff no one taught us

• Never ride a rollercoaster upside down : the ups, downs, and reinvention of an entrepreneur

• The corner office : indispensable and unexpected lessons from CEOs on how to lead and succeed

• The $100 startup : reinvent the way you make a living, do what you love, and create a new future

• The upstarts : how Uber, Airbnb, and the killer companies of the new Silicon Valley are changing the world

• The start-up J curve : the six steps to entrepreneurial success

• Build : an unorthodox guide to making things worth making

Other books like these in the 650s

• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

• Teenage Brain : A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

• Faster, Higher, Stronger : How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes-and What We Can Learn from Them

• Pandora's DNA : Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree

• Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

• No Time to Lose : A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses

• The matter of the heart : a history of the heart in eleven operations

• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World

• Being Mortal : Medicine and What Matters in the End

• Spillover : animal infections and the next human pandemic

• What It's Like to Be a Dog : And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience

• Beyond Words : What Animals Think and Feel

• Shark Chronicles : A Scientist Tracks the Consummate Predator

• Elephant Whisperer : My Life With the Herd in the African Wild

• The Soul of an Octopus 

• Do no harm : stories of life, death, and brain surgery

• What an owl knows : the new science of the world's most enigmatic birds

• Silent Spring

• Unsettled : What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters

• Bill Gates’ How to Avoid a Climate Disaster : The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

• Ice Walker : A Polar Bear's Journey Through the Fragile Arctic

• Hot : Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth

• Eyes Wide Open : Going Behind the Environmental Headlines

• Big Thirst : The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water

• Wear no evil : how to change the world with your wardrobe

• The new climate war : the fight to take back the planet 

• Under a White Sky 

• We are the weather : saving the planet begins at breakfast

•  Fire weather : a true story from a hotter world

• All That Remains : A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes

• Blood, Bullets, and Bones : The Story of Forensic Science from Sherlock Holmes to DNA

• Every Contact Leaves a Trace : Crime Scene Experts Talk About Their Work, from Discovery Through Verdict

• Forensics : What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime

• Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand : Curious Adventures of a CSI

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

• The Borden murders : Lizzie Borden and the trial of the century

• We own this city : a true story of crime, cops, and corruption

• The 57 bus A true story of two teenagers and the crime that changed their lives

• Chase darkness with me : how one true-crime writer started solving murders

• One cut

• Murder among friends : how Leopold and Loeb tried to commit the perfect crime  

• All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row 

• Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend 

• Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped the NXIVM Cult 

• The last narco : inside the hunt for El Chapo, the world's most wanted drug lord

• When a killer calls : a haunting story of murder, criminal profiling, and justice in a small town

• The Stranger Beside Me

• Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI : adapted for young readers

•  Mindhunter : inside the FBI's elite serial crime unit

• Unmasked : my life solving America's cold cases

•  Killing Pablo : the hunt for the world's greatest outlaw

he world's most wanted drug

• Humble Pi : When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World

• Electric War : Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Light the World

• Essential Engineer : Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems

• How to Invent Everything : A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

• How We Got to Now : Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

• Department of Mad Scientists : How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs

• The Making of the Atomic Bomb

•  Midnight in Chernobyl : The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

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• Hidden Figures : the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

• Weapons of Math Destruction : How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy 

• Book of Numbers : The Secret of Numbers and How They Changed the World 

• How Not to Be Wrong : The Power of Mathematical Thinking

• Proofiness : The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception 

• Drunkard's Walk : How Randomness Rules Our Lives 

• How to bake [pi] : an edible exploration of the mathematics of mathematics

• Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data

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• Four : The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

• Cyber War : The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It

• Future Crimes : Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

• Algorithms to Live by : The Computer Science of Human Decisions

• Rise of the Robots : Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

• Our Final Invention : Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

• Irresistible : The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

• Inevitable : Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

• No Place to Hide : Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

• Rob Vamosi When Gadgets Betray Us:The Dark Side of our Infautation with New Technology 

•  Human compatible : artificial intelligence and the problem of control

• The sentient machine : the coming age of artificial intelligence

• The coming wave : technology, power, and the twenty-first century's greatest dilemma

• Varsity Green: a behind the scenes look at the culture and corruption of college athletics

• The QB : the making of modern quarterbacks

• Billion-dollar ball : a journey through the big-money culture of college football     

• God is round : tackling the giants, villains, triumphs, and scandals of the world's favorite game

• Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game     

• The arm : inside the billion-dollar mystery of the most valuable commodity in sports     

• One game at a time : why sports matter

• Players : the story of sports and money, and the visionaries who fought to create a revolution

• Why football matters : my education in the game 

• Slow getting up : a story of NFL survival from the bottom of the pile

• Brady vs Manning : the untold story of the rivalry that transformed the NFL 

• The blind side : evolution of a game  

• Beast : blood, struggle and dreams at the heart of mixed martial arts

• Change up : an oral history of 8 key events that shaped modern baseball

• The boys of winter : the untold story of a coach, a dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team

• Ball in the Air: A Golfing Adventure

More books like these in 790s

• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

• How music works : the science and psychology of beautiful sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and beyond

• Rockonomics : a backstage tour of what the music industry can teach us about economics and life

• Hip Hop America 

• 3 kings : Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay Z, and hip-hop's multibillion-dollar rise

• Music is History 

• The underground is massive : how electronic dance music conquered America

• Heavier than heaven : a biography of Kurt Cobain

• The Beatles : the music was never the same

• Quest Love's Music is History

• Do the devil's work for him : how to make it in the music industry (and stay in it)

• David Bowie made me gay : 100 years of LGBT music

• Waking the spirit : a musician's journey healing body, mind, and soul

• They called themselves the K.K.K. : the birth of an American terrorist group 

• Spies : the secret showdown between America and Russia

• D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II 

• The boys in the boat : nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

• Come on in, America : the United States in World War I 

• A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII 

• Samurai rising : the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune 

• The Nazi Hunters: how a team of spies and survivors captured the world's most notorious Nazi 

• Killing Lincoln: the shocking assassination that changed America forever

• Bootleg : murder, moonshine, and the lawless years of prohibition

• Red Scarf Girl: Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 

• The Family Romanov 

• Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War

• The Red Bandana

• With badges & bullets : lawmen & outlaws in the Old West

• - Braiding sweetgrass for young adults : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings

• of plants

• The nineties

• Lone survivor : the eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL Team 10 

• 12 strong : the declassified true story of the horse soldiers 

• One bullet away : the making of a Marine officer

• American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history

• The making of a Navy SEAL : my story of surviving the toughest challenge and training the best

• Black Hawk down : a story of modern war 

• No easy day : the firsthand account of the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden : the autobiography of a Navy SEAL 

• SEAL Team Six : memoirs of an elite Navy seal sniper 

• War

• Jarhead: A Marine's chronicle of the gulf war and other battles

• The Night Stalkers : top secret missions of the U.S. Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment

• The Good Soldiers 

Jane Goodall's The Book of Hope: A survival guide for trying times

 Walk the blue line

 Fire in their eyes : wildfires and the people who fight them