Friendly forums for passionate Dems!
More than 91 million posts since 2001
Home Latest Greatest Videos Forums Hide ads Join up!
Home Latest Greatest
Videos Forums Help
Hide ads Join up!
Latest Discussions»Culture Forums»Non-Fiction
Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

Non-Fiction

Related: About this forum
Start a new discussionStart discussion Subscribe to this forum (see My DU » Subscriptions)Subscribe Mark this forum as read (yellow icons will turn white)Mark as read Search this forum using Advanced SearchSearch forum You will no longer see this forum (see My DU > Trash Can)Trash forum Get forum information and statisticsAbout forum
This is a group, not a forum. Groups often serve as safe havens for members who share similar interests and viewpoints. Individuals who post messages contrary to a particular group's stated purpose can be excluded from posting in that group. For detailed information about this group and its purpose, click here.
Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Welcome to the Non-Fiction Group. 33 Neoma Aug 2012 Dec 2023 7 50754
Five of the best books about conspiracy theories 1 cbabe Yesterday Yesterday 4 328
ZERO FAIL The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service 5 BOSSHOG May 25 Jul 17 5 496
Just finished "The New Rules of War" by Sean McFate. I highly recommend it. 0 raccoon Jul 14 Jul 14 1 331
A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan 0 Raven123 Jul 10 Jul 10 6 255
Long Haul by Frank Figliuzzi 0 Vinca Jul 6 Jul 6 2 367
GOP grifters & graft: Stealing with both hands 2 cbabe Jul 6 Jul 6 1 325
Lies and the lying liar who told them: A former PR looks back on a career spent whitewashing 'foreign baddies' 3 cbabe Jul 3 Jul 3 4 358
What was the 'first American novel'? On this Independence Day, a look at what it started 1 sl8 Jul 3 Jul 3 6 295
"When Religion Hurts You: Healing from religious trauma and the impact of High-Control Religion," by Laura E. Anderson, 2 Timeflyer Jun 15 Jun 15 10 410
Just read The 4 winds 2 efhmc Jun 7 Jun 7 1 403
If You Have a Blog... 5 qwlauren35 Sep 2023 Jun 3 5 2295
Nuclear War: A Scenario 3 kairos12 Jun 2 Jun 2 3 754
as its memorial day, i'd like to recommend an old WW1 book. 'and they said we wouldn't fight', by floyd gibbons. 2 pansypoo53219 May 27 May 28 2 394
"Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World" (Nature book review) 0 sl8 May 27 May 27 6 329
Recycled sewage, public health and the memory of the world: Books in brief (Nature) 0 sl8 May 17 May 17 2 431
Congratulations to 2024 Pulitzer Nonfiction winners! 0 NanaCat May 6 May 6 0 599
How rich is too rich? (Nature book review) 1 sl8 May 6 May 6 5 687
From multiverses to cities: Books in brief (Nature) 0 sl8 May 3 May 3 1 659
"Suffrage: women's long battle for the vote," by Ellen Carol Dubois, 2020. 1 Timeflyer Apr 28 Apr 29 4 710
Rebel Wilson book published in the UK with blacked out text 1 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 28 1 1002
Non-Fiction reads so far in 2024 5 NanaCat Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1189
'The anti-pet of bourgeois life': why the world needs big cat energy 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1030
The Dead Are Arising by Les & Tamara Payne 0 NanaCat Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1229
Forget Bonnie and Clyde, Meet the Original Gangster Grandma, "The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum" by Margalit Fox 2 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 2969
Just Put Down C.O. Moed's "It Was Her New York" 0 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 1418
"The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American evangelicals in an age of extremism", by Tim Alberta. 8 Timeflyer Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 1305
Just Completed "Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party" by Edward Dolnick 2 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 1244
Marc Wanamaker and Steven Bingen's "Hollywood Behind the Lens" - A Romp Through Hollywood's Controlled Pandemonium 0 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1103
Just Finished "Can't We Be Friends" by Eliza Knight about Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald's Friendship 1 hotellanai1986 Feb 2024 Feb 2024 5 1352

Non-Fiction Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Just finished the audio version of Ruth Ben-Ghiat's "Strongmen" 0 ificandream Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 1109
Fans of James Herriot gotta read this. 2 elleng Feb 2024 Feb 2024 11 1506
"American Cassandra: the life of Dorothy Thompson," by Peter Kurth, 1990. 1 Timeflyer Feb 2024 Feb 2024 6 1188
Two recent books on WWII Nazi era 0 bucolic_frolic Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 1364
This message was self-deleted by its author 20 anobserver2 Jan 2024 Jan 2024 0 2247
Non-Fiction of the Week 14 January 2024 2 ExWhoDoesntCare Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 1305
Has anyone read the new James Patterson memoir "Stories of My Life" ? [View all] 58 anobserver2 Jun 2022 Jan 2024 1 5707
NonFiction of the week 7 January 2024 0 ExWhoDoesntCare Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 1483
NonFiction of the week 31 December 2023/1 January 2024 1 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 1383
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction, by F. Bordewich 1 Timeflyer Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 1630
NonFiction of the week 24 December 11 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 1693
NonFiction of the week 17 December 3 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 1250
Non-Fiction of the Week 10 December2023 5 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 1690
Has Anyone Here Read Mindf*ck by Christopher Wylie? 1 The Roux Comes First Nov 2023 Dec 2023 9 1974
NonFic of the week 4 December 2023 4 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 1400
Killers of the Flower Moon - my wife and I don't get the plaudits 6 NewHendoLib Nov 2023 Dec 2023 0 2496
A book for all time: my new favorite author 2 The Blue Flower Oct 2023 Nov 2023 15 1779
The story of a devastating wildfire that reads 'like a thriller' wins U.K. book prize 3 sl8 Nov 2023 Nov 2023 4 2201
NonFic of the week 26 November 2 ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 1624
NonFic of the week 19 November 1 ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 1447
NonFic of the week 12 November 7 ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 1345
What Non-Fiction are you currently/just read? [View all] 65 violetpastille Feb 2019 Nov 2023 3 17331
NonFic I'm reading, 5 November 2023 4 ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 Nov 2023 2 1335
How Migration Really Works, by Hein de Haas 0 sl8 Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 1522
The plant poisons that shape our daily lives [Book review] 3 sl8 Oct 2023 Nov 2023 13 1931
KLAN WAR by Fergus M. Bordewich 0 bucolic_frolic Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 1461
Watergate, A New History - Garrett M. Graff 8 Tomconroy Feb 2022 Oct 2023 6 3529
Interesting intersection of privatization and religion in two different books 0 RSherman Oct 2023 Oct 2023 9 1811
A note from Douglas Preston 0 hermetic Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 1536
The Fall by Michael Wolff 0 ificandream Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 1443

Non-Fiction Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
The first digital pandemic, and the dangers of economic nationalism: Books in brief 0 sl8 Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 1738
Just started reading Michael Wolff's "The Fall" about Fox News. 0 ificandream Oct 2023 Oct 2023 6 1602
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks. (Nature) 0 sl8 Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 2129
From Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System: #SwedishScarf 0 Eugene Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 2042
Two books on the recent new non-fiction shelf 1 bucolic_frolic Sep 2023 Sep 2023 3 1586
Just won a copy of The Six by Loren Gush via Goodreads 1 ExWhoDoesntCare Sep 2023 Sep 2023 0 2453
Use of "sprang up." 17 CTyankee Jun 2023 Aug 2023 1 1433
A look at the tumultuous life of 'Persepolis' as it turns 20 0 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2023 Aug 2023 1 2026
"Profiles in Ignorance: How America's politicians got dumb and dumber," by Andy Borowitz 2 Timeflyer Aug 2023 Aug 2023 4 2762
"Why People Believe Weird Things," by Michael Shermer. 0 Timeflyer Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 3953
Question about buying books on Amazon. 12 BlackSkimmer Jun 2022 Jun 2023 1 4333
Is the author C. J Fox a right wing conspiracy person? 2 efhmc Apr 2023 May 2023 1 2934
I am re-reading James Howard Kunstler's THE LONG EMERGENCY. 1 raccoon May 2023 May 2023 2 3052
"Uncultured: a memoir," by Daniella Mestyaned Young. 0 Timeflyer Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 2229
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Baked Potato Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1758
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Baked Potato Apr 2023 Apr 2023 1 1431
Reaching Black Audiences 0 qwlauren35 Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1040
Here's a "Book of the Month Giveaway" Contest (non-fiction) 1 Peccadillo Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 2395
Since our lively discussion of sourcing my privately published art history, I have discovered 18 CTyankee Mar 2023 Mar 2023 8 5590
Lisa Bortolotti argues that some irrational beliefs qualify as epistemically innocent 0 NNadir Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 2136
Latest Discussions»Culture Forums»Non-Fiction
Home | Latest Discussions | Greatest Discussions | Latest Videos | All Forums

About | Copyright | Privacy | Terms of service | Contact

In Memoriam

© 2001 - 2024 Democratic Underground, LLC. Thank you for visiting.