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May 2026

Text reads, #RPLReads

Written by Trudi

Tell Me A (True) Story...

Sometimes people assume that reading nonfiction is purely for learning new skills or information, but narrative nonfiction offers just as appealing a reading experience as our favourite novels. Narrative nonfiction uses literary storytelling to share real-life events and still provides the emotional rewards of a well-told story.

Walk A Mile In Their Shoes

Nonfiction gives us the perfect opportunity to completely immerse ourselves in another’s lived experience, leading to greater empathy, understanding, and connection. 

Cover of Come Fly the World by Julia Cooke
By Julia Cooke
Untold stories of early flight attendants
Cover of Those Who Are About to Die by Harry Sidebottom
By Harry Sidebottom
The lives of Roman gladiators
Cover of There is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone
By Brian Goldstone
The rise of the working homeless
Cover of A Flower Traveled in My Blood by Haley Cohen Gilliland
By Haley Cohen Gilliland
A stolen generation and the grandmothers who searched for them
Cover of The Traitor's Daughter by Roxana Spicer
By Roxana Spicer
A remarkable life of danger and survival
Cover of When the Sea Came Alive by Garrett M. Graff
By Garrett M. Graff
The beaches of Normandy on D-Day
Take a deeper dive into the past with National Geographic History as your guide and storyteller via unlimited digital access through the Libby app. 

Disasters

Narrative nonfiction tells a deeply researched, true story as if it were a novel. Minute by minute accounts of natural and man-made disasters make for compelling, unputdownable reading. 

Cover of The Gales of November by John U. Bacon
By John U. Bacon
Maritime disaster
Edmund Fitzgerald
Cover of Fire Weather by John Vaillant
By John Vaillant
Fort McMurray wildfire
Environmental changes
Cover of The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
By Daniel James Brown
Pioneer life
Extreme survival
Cover of Challenger by Adam Higginbotham
By Adam Higginbotham
Space exploration
Challenger disaster
Cover of The Great Halifax Explosion by John U. Bacon
World War I
Halifax explosion
Cover of One Hundred and Sixty Minutes by William Hazelgrove
By William Hazelgrove
Titanic sinking
Rescue at sea
What A Year!
These books tackle a single, momentous year by examining its cultural and historical significance to help readers better understand where we are now and how we got here. 

Microhistories

Ever been so interested in a topic that you wished you could put it under a microscope and see it in all its splendid detail? Microhistories let you do just that. They're adventures through every aspect of a subject letting you understand it from the inside out. History buffs and curious readers alike will relish these technicolour portraits.  

Cover of About Time by David Rooney
By David Rooney
The power of clocks
Cover of Meet Me by the Fountain
By Alexandra Lange
A history of shopping malls
Cover of Endless Forms by Seirian Sumner
By Seirian Sumner
Secrets of the wasp
Cover of Pockets by Hannah Carlson
By Hannah Carlson
Pockets: who gets them, and why?
Cover of Rope by Tim Queeney
By Tim Queeney
The importance of rope to civilization
Cover of All the Knowledge in the World by Simon Garfield
History of the encyclopedia

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