Narrative Non-Fiction

Exercise Your Mind!

Inspired by the 2016 Summer Reading theme of “Exercise Your Mind: Read!,” this selection of books includes engaging true stories of murder, science, pirates, and more.

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Children of the Stone by Sandy Tolan

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse by Piu Marie Eatwell

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard

Narrative Non-Fiction

Children of the Stone by Sandy Tolan

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse by Piu Marie Eatwell

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard

King Peggy by Peggielene Bartels and Eleanor Herman

Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio

The Black Count by Tom Reiss

Dead Wake by Erik Larson

The Zimmerman Telegram by Barbara W. Tuchman

If a Pirate I Must Be… by Richard Sanders

Everybody Matters by Mary Robinson

Into the Silence by Wade Davis

Moby-Duck by Donovan Hohn

The Innocent Man by John Grisham