Nonfiction Book Titles

The nonfiction titles that are listed below are middle school level suggestions that you may choose from. Students are not limited to these titles! Also, remember that you are NOT selecting a biography or autobiography and that you are choosing something with substance. Remember, we discussed that you should be reading a book that written like a fiction novel (narrative nonfiction).

Title / Author
  1. Zombie Makers: True stories of Nature’s Undead
  2. Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan
  3. Brown Girl Dreaming
  4. Lincoln’s Grave Robbers
  5. Fourth Down and Inches
  6. Call of the Klondike
  7. The Nazi Hunters
  8. No Summit Out of Sight
  9. Within Reach: My Everest Story
  10. Tillie Pierce: Teen Eyewitness to the Battle of Gettysburg
  11. Wild Boy
  12. Survivors
  13. Chasing Lincoln’s Killer
  14. The President Has Been Shot
  15. Killer Lipstick
  16. The Year We Disappeared
  17. Warriors Don’t Cry
  18. The Fairy Ring or Elsie and Frances Fool the World
  19. Discovering Wes Moore
  20. Bomb: The Race to Build – And Steal – The World’s Most Dangerous Weapon
  21. Hiding Edith
  22. The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
  23. Bodyguards!: From Gladiators to the Secret Service
  24. Four Perfect Pebbles
  25. Titanic: Voices From the Disaster
  26. Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
  27. Tommy: the gun that changed America
  28. The Duel
  29. The Boys Who Challenged Hitler
  30. The Family Romanov
  31. Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
  32. The Giant: And How He Humbugged America
  33. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
  34. Secret Subway: the fascinating tale of an amazing feat of engineering
  35. The Kid Who Climbed Everest
  36. The Finest Hours: The true story of a heroic sea rescue
  37. Terrible Typhoid Mary: A true story of the deadliest cook in America
  38. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance
  39. Black Potatoes
  40. Hitler Youth

41.I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

42.The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Adaptation): The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics

43.I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives

44.Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers

45.The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism and Treachery

46.Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith

47.Unbroken: An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive (Young Readers Edition)

48.Hidden Gold: A True Story of the Holocaust

49.Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust

50.Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy

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Steven Sheinkin
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Mark Pfetzer
Tanya Anderson
Mary Losure
Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsum
James L. Swanson
James L. Swanson
Don Rauf
Cylin Busby & John Busby
Melba Patillo Beals
Mary Losure
Wes Moore
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Deborah Hopkinson
Karen Blumenthal
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Judith St. George
Phillip Moose
Candace Fleming
Simeon Wright
Jim Murphy
Steve Sheinkin
Martin W. Sandler
Bear Grylls
Michael Tougias and Casey Sherman
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Jennifer Armstrong
Susan Bartoletti
Susan Bartoletti
Malala Yousafzai
Daniel James Brown
Caitlin Alifrenka and Martin Ganda
Tanya Lee Stone
Steven Sheinkin
Deborah Heiligman
Laura Hillenbrand
Ella Burakowski
Doreen Rappaport
Albert Marrin
Jordan Romeo