As much fiction as we read, even booksellers like a dose of reality every now and then! Here are some brilliant nonfiction titles that the M&Q staff loves. Memoirs, biographies, essays, and history–these titles are all the more fascinating for their examination of real lives and places.
- Atlas Obscura by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton
- Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips
- The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
- M Train by Patti Smith
- On the Move by Oliver Sacks
- SPQR by Mary Beard
- Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
- The Six by Laura Thomspson
- The Wars of the Roses by Dan Jones
Musings from Magers and Quinn 