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  2. Non-fiction - Wikipedia

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    Some fiction may include non-fictional elements; semi-fiction is fiction implementing a great deal of non-fiction, [8] (such as a fictional description based on a true story). Some non-fiction may include elements of unverified supposition, deduction, or imagination for the purpose of smoothing out a narrative, but the inclusion of open ...

  3. Creative nonfiction - Wikipedia

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    Creative nonfiction may be structured like traditional fiction narratives, as is true of Fenton Johnson's story of love and loss, Geography of the Heart, [9] and Virginia Holman's Rescuing Patty Hearst. [10] When book-length works of creative nonfiction follow a story-like arc, they are sometimes called narrative nonfiction.

  4. Non-fiction novel - Wikipedia

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    The non-fiction novel is a literary genre that, broadly speaking, depicts non-fictional elements, such as real historical figures and actual events, woven together with fictitious conversations and uses the storytelling techniques of fiction. [citation needed] The non-fiction novel is an otherwise loosely defined and flexible genre. The genre ...

  5. Stranger than Fiction: True Stories - Wikipedia

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    Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (published in the United Kingdom & Australia as Nonfiction) is a non-fiction book by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 2004. It is a collection of essays, stories, and interviews written for various magazines and newspapers. Some of the pieces had also been previously published on the internet.

  6. Best non-fiction books of 2024: True crime, fandom and the ...

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    This year’s line-up of non-fiction releases was certainly eclectic: from productivity guides that eschew hustle culture clichés to fascinating literary and social histories, and even a deep ...

  7. The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

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    The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town is a 2006 true crime book by John Grisham, his first nonfiction title. The book tells the story of Ronald 'Ron' Keith Williamson of Ada, Oklahoma, a former minor league baseball player who was wrongly convicted in 1988 of the rape and murder of Debra Sue Carter in Ada and was sentenced to death.

  8. Go Ask Alice - Wikipedia

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    Despite the classification and the disclaimer, Go Ask Alice has frequently been taught as non-fiction in schools and sold as non-fiction in bookstores. [26] The publishers also continued to suggest that the book was true by including the "Editors' Note" stating that the book was based on an actual diary, and listing the author as "Anonymous ...

  9. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - Wikipedia

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    The book's plot is based on real-life events that occurred in the 1980s and is classified as non-fiction. Because it reads like a novel (and rearranges the sequence of true events in time), it is sometimes referred to as a "non-fiction novel." Mercer House.