Non-Fiction

Explore non-fiction books and nonfiction reads on history, science, and ideas, from narrative nonfiction to well-researched reads worth your time. Memoirs and biographies are covered separately, this collection focuses on the rest of non-fiction. Chosen by our booksellers, these are the titles that keep us thinking. Shop non-fiction books in-store in St. Paul, or order online.

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Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
Forty Ways to Know a Tree: Exploring Trees to Understand Nature
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
Silent Spring
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
Tree Lore: Magic, Myth, and Wisdom from Root to Bough
The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary
Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day