Friendly forums for passionate Dems!
More than 95 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 64407
Anybody know of a good book about the real reasons for various wars? 12 raccoon Oct 2025 Yesterday 2 2268
"The Ministry of Truth: the biography of George Orwell's 1984," Dorian Lynskey, 2019. 0 Timeflyer Tuesday Tuesday 8 227
The Fallen/Louise Brangan 0 cbabe Jun 10 Jun 10 4 465
'The devil's child': the rise and fall of the only female yakuza -- The Guardian - Long Read 0 erronis May 21 May 21 1 859
Grappling with her father's unpublished narrative of Tule Lake incarceration, Tamiko Nimura constructs her own memoir of 0 cbabe May 20 May 20 0 555
(The weather underground child)Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground/ 1 cbabe May 19 May 19 6 669
Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsang 8 RainCaster May 14 May 14 21 1681
Excellent read 0 kairos12 May 14 May 14 3 622
'It's not a story that's over': inside the battle against hatred in America 2 cbabe Apr 28 Apr 28 4 987
American Reich: A murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and 1 cbabe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 1150
This historian dug up the hidden history of 'amateur' blackface in America 2 cbabe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 1126
This message was self-deleted by its author 3 bucolic_frolic Jan 2026 Jan 2026 5 1273
Our Migrant Souls 0 cbabe Jan 2026 Jan 2026 1 984
I just finished 107 Days by Kamala Harris. 4 MIButterfly Jan 2026 Jan 2026 9 1569
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man/John Perkins 3 cbabe Jan 2026 Jan 2026 10 1441
American Reich A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate 0 cbabe Jan 2026 Jan 2026 5 2488
'Firestorm' review: Inside one of the deadliest fires in California history 1 cbabe Jan 2026 Jan 2026 3 1115
Literature that crosses the line: Cocaine in books 5 cbabe Jan 2026 Jan 2026 1 1533
Positive Obsession: the life and times of Octavia Butler 3 cbabe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 6 1511
Arundhati Roy/Mother Mary Comes to Me 0 cbabe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 1 1055
Reading "The Gales of November." 3 kairos12 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 9 1674
The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson 1 bucolic_frolic Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 1367
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug trafficking and murder in the special forces 3 cbabe Oct 2025 Nov 2025 6 1679
Murderland: crime and bloodlust in the 5 cbabe Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 1954
Amazon has the Kindle version of 0 rzemanfl Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 1214
Finding My Way by Malala Yousafzai review - growing up in public 0 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 1227
Cop Cop: Breaking the Fixed System of American Policing 0 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 1220
"Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance" by Laura Delano 1 bucolic_frolic Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1889
10 fall biographies you won't want to miss 2 marmar Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 2913

Non-Fiction Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
"Rise and fall of the Third Reich: a history of Nazi Germany," by Wm. L. Shirer, 1960. 3 Timeflyer Aug 2025 Aug 2025 12 2030
"The Greening of America" 1970, Charles Reich 3 dwayneb Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 2093
The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, 3 cbabe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 2090
There's a petition to get Robert A. Caro's "The Power Broker" published in its uncut, 1,050,000 word glory. Sign here. 4 eppur_se_muova Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 2400
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 jfz9580m Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 1585
Careless People/Sarah Wynn-Williams 9 cbabe May 2025 Aug 2025 2 3529
Bad Company: private equity and the 0 cbabe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 1582
A Good Book On Medieval Spain 0 DanBaron Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1713
Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now 4 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 2676
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s 0 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 1883
The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice 1 bucolic_frolic May 2025 May 2025 3 2327
Clint Smith, writer: 'It is impossible to understand the US economy without slavery' 5 cbabe May 2025 May 2025 9 3207
"Survive and Resist: the Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics," 2019, by Atchison and Shames. 1 Timeflyer May 2025 May 2025 3 2206
What are some of Sy Montgomery's best books? 0 bif Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 2196
"Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich," by Norman Ohler, US 2017. 3 Timeflyer Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 2938
Josephine Baker: the superstar turned spy who fought the Nazis and for civil rights 0 cbabe Apr 2025 Apr 2025 9 2338
Question for all 2 AdamThePhantump Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 2462
the war diary of late Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina, introduced by Margaret Atwood 2 cbabe Feb 2025 Mar 2025 8 2937
Book and Dagger: How scholars and librarians became the unlikely spies of world war II 5 cbabe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 3267
Omar El Akkad on Gaza, Power, and the Stories Empires Steal 0 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 2327
Stoicism 5 Baron2024 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 3227
Disposable: what Covid-19 did to those who couldn't afford to fight the virus 1 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 13 2852
'The Poisoner's Handbook: murder and the birth of forensic medicine in jazz age New York," by D. Blum, 2010. 2 Timeflyer Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 2630
They Knew: how a culture of conspiracy keeps America complacent/Sarah Kendzior 0 cbabe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 2319
Looking for a book about the Jan 6 insurrection that appeared in Reader's Digest as a condensed 2 raccoon Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 2721
Reading When McKinsey Comes to Town. Great book, as I had never heard about the subject. 3 multigraincracker Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 3247
That Librarian by Amanda Jones 5 cbabe Sep 2024 Dec 2024 3 3845
"The Year of Living Constitutionally" by A.J. Jacobs 0 Timeflyer Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 2345
Is It Really Your Money? 5 in2herbs Nov 2024 Nov 2024 5 4060
"War" by Bob Woodward 0 Mike 03 Nov 2024 Nov 2024 7 2517

Non-Fiction Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
If you're a fan of Thom Hartmann 1 Shipwack Nov 2024 Nov 2024 11 3298
Invisible Doctrine: The secret history of neoliberalism, George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison. 2 raccoon Nov 2024 Nov 2024 5 2918
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 jfz9580m Oct 2024 Oct 2024 0 2515
"Emperor of Rome," by Mary Beard. 2 Timeflyer Oct 2024 Oct 2024 4 3055
Deep dark MSM: All the Worst Humans: how I made news for dictators, tycoons, and politicians 4 cbabe Sep 2024 Oct 2024 6 3900
Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford 0 cbabe Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 2408
Stories Are Weapons - Annalee Newitz 0 bucolic_frolic Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 2540
Reading Micheal Lewis"The Fifth Element" of Chump's takeover of 5 kairos12 Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 3617
"Losing Reality: on Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry," by R. J. Lifton. 0 Timeflyer Sep 2024 Sep 2024 7 2542
Black AF History: The Un-whitewashed 7 cbabe Aug 2024 Sep 2024 6 4288
John Vaillant/Fire Weather: on the front lines of a burning world 4 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 3207
White robes and broken badges (fbi informant, Jamie Raskin forward, and the klan threat today) 0 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 7 2802
Hell hath no fury like a librarian scorned in the book banning wars 2 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 10 3325
"When Religion Hurts You: Healing from religious trauma and the impact of High-Control Religion," by Laura E. Anderson, 4 Timeflyer Jun 2024 Aug 2024 10 3685
The race to the future: 1907's 8,000-mile odyssey from China to France 0 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 5 2528
A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan 1 Raven123 Jul 2024 Aug 2024 7 2941
Before It's Gone 1 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 8 2893
All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way - by Fred C. Trump III 4 raccoon Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 3657
Hidden figures: giving history's most overlooked mathematicians their due 4 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 9 3865
Five of the best books about conspiracy theories 1 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 2990
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 - 2026 Democratic Underground, LLC. Thank you for visiting.