Nonfiction
Alphabetical listing
This list includes only book-length nonfiction. Including short non-fiction (introductions, afterwords, reviews, editorials and so on) would make the list much too long to be of any use – over 1200 items as of this update, and I know I'm missing a lot.
Alphabetical listings: combined | split | major only
Chronological listings: combined | split | major only
(71 items found.)
- 1066 (Non-fiction)
- The Adventures of Nat Palmer: Antarctic Explorer and Clipper Ship Pioneer (Non-fiction)
- Akhnaten: The Rebel Pharaoh (Non-fiction)
- Antarctic Conquest: The Great Explorers in Their Own Words (Non-fiction)
- The Auk, the Dodo, and the Oryx: Vanished and Vanishing Creatures (Non-fiction)
- Before the Sphinx: Early Egypt (Non-fiction)
- Bridges (Non-fiction)
- Bruce of the Blue Nile (Non-fiction)
- Challenge for a Throne: The Wars of the Roses (Non-fiction)
- The Challenge of Climate: Man and His Environment (Non-fiction)
- Clocks for the Ages: How Scientists Date the Past (Non-fiction)
- The Crusades (Non-fiction)
- The Dawn of Medicine (Non-fiction)
- The Dodo, the Auk and the Oryx (Non-fiction) (see The Auk, the Dodo, and the Oryx: Vanished and Vanishing Creatures)
- Drug Themes in Science Fiction (Non-fiction)
- Empires in the Dust: Ancient Civilizations Brought to Light (Non-fiction)
- The Fabulous Rockefellers (Non-fiction)
- Fifteen Battles That Changed the World (Non-fiction)
- First American Into Space (Non-fiction)
- Forgotten by Time: A Book of Living Fossils (Non-fiction)
- Four Men Who Changed the Universe (Non-fiction)
- Frontiers in Archeology (Non-fiction)
- Ghost Towns of the American West (Non-fiction)
- The Golden Dream: Seekers of El Dorado (Non-fiction)
- Great Adventures in Archaeology (Non-fiction)
- The Great Doctors (Non-fiction)
- The Great Wall of China (Non-fiction)
- The History of Surgery (Non-fiction)
- Home of the Red Man: Indian North America before Columbus (Non-fiction)
- If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem (Non-fiction)
- Into Space: A Young Person's Guide to Space Exploration (Non-fiction)
- John Muir, Prophet Among the Glaciers (Non-fiction)
- Kublai Khan: Lord of Xanadu (Non-fiction)
- Light for the World: Edison and the Power of Electricity (Non-fiction)
- The Loneliest Continent: The Story of Antarctic Discovery (Non-fiction)
- The Long Rampart: The Story of the Great Wall of China (Non-fiction)
- The Longest Voyage: Circumnavigation in the Age of Discovery (Non-fiction)
- Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations (Non-fiction)
- Mammoths Mastodons and Man (Non-fiction)
- Man Before Adam: The Story of Man in Search of Origins (Non-fiction)
- The Man Who Found Nineveh (Non-fiction)
- Men Against Time: Salvage Archaeology in the United States (Non-fiction)
- Men Who Mastered the Atom (Non-fiction)
- The Morning of Mankind: Prehistoric Man in Europe (Non-fiction)
- The Mound Builders (Non-fiction)
- Mound Builders of Ancient America: The Archaeology of a Myth (Non-fiction)
- Niels Bohr: The Man Who Mapped the Atom (Non-fiction)
- The Old Ones: Indians of the American Southwest (Non-fiction)
- Other Spaces, Other Times (Non-fiction)
- The Pueblo Revolt (Non-fiction)
- The Realm of Prester John (Non-fiction)
- Rivers: A Book to Begin On (Non-fiction)
- Scientists and Scoundrels: A Book of Hoaxes (Non-fiction)
- The Search for Eldorado (Non-fiction)
- The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (Non-fiction)
- Sir Winston Churchill (Non-fiction)
- Socrates (Non-fiction)
- The South Pole: A Book to Begin On (Non-fiction)
- Stormy Voyager (Non-fiction)
- Sunken History: The Story of Underwater Archaeology (Non-fiction)
- To the Rock of Darius: The Story of Henry Rawlinson (Non-fiction)
- To the Western Shore: Growth of the United States (Non-fiction)
- Treasures Beneath the Sea (Non-fiction)
- Vanishing Giants: the Story of the Sequoias (Non-fiction)
- Wonders of Ancient Chinese Science (Non-fiction)
- The World of Coral (Non-fiction)
- The World of Space (Non-fiction)
- The World of the Ocean Depths (Non-fiction)
- The World of the Rain Forests (Non-fiction)
- The World Within the Ocean Wave (Non-fiction)
- The World Within the Tide Pool (Non-fiction)