10 Non-Fiction Books So Good — They Read Like Fiction

Thrill and action from real-life

Novel Nest
10 min readFeb 14, 2024

Fiction books are always easier to read.

Maybe it’s about the storytelling or perhaps the emotions that they awaken in us.

Today, we are bringing you ten non-fiction books that read like fiction. Each of them is vivid and engaging in its own way.

Take your pick because we assure you once you pick one of these up, you won’t be able to put it back down without getting to the end.

Let’s go through a brief overview of each!

1. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

10 Non-Fiction Books So Good — They Read Like Fiction
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A maritime tale from the 18th century.

David Grann tells the story of a British warship called the HMS Wager.

“By portraying the natives as both magnificent and less than human, Europeans tried to pretend that their brutal mission of conquest was somehow righteous and heroic.”

This ship was caught in a storm and wrecked in 1741. Some crewmembers drowned.

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