Nonfiction

11 books

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of a Woman Who Resisted the Nazis cover
Rating 4.0
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of a Woman Who Resisted the Nazis Rebecca Donner People's Literature Publishing House · 2025 All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days is a historical biography by American author Rebecca Donner. The Chinese title evokes a Holderlin poetic image: …
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Selected Nonfiction (9-Volume Set) Eliza Griswold / Yi Xianfeng / Katherine Boo / Susan Orlean / Mitchell Zuckoff / 杜鲁门·卡波蒂 / Richard Lloyd Parry / Elie Wiesel / V. S. Naipaul Nanhai Publication Company · 2022 Selected Nonfiction (9-Volume Set) is a nonfiction collection published by Nanhai Publishing Company in 2022, with the subtitle 'These Are All Things …
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No Return to the Soil (Chinese Stories) Xie Ding CITIC Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2013 No Place to Call Home is a collection of long-form reportage by journalist Xie Ding, part of the "Stories of China" series, exploring "great eras and …
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Rating 4.1
Gannan Chronicles Yang Xianhui Flower City Publishing House · 2011 Gannan Chronicles is the third volume of Yang Xianhui's "Fate Trilogy," following Chronicle of Jiabiangou and Chronicle of the Dingxi Orphanage. Start…
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Rating 4.0
The Little Street of Love and Hope 周成林 Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2015 The Little Street of Love and Hope is an autobiographical essay collection by independent writer and translator Zhou Chenglin, published by Sichuan Li…
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Rating 4.0
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor Gabriel García Márquez Nanhai Publication Company · 2017 In 1955, a Colombian Navy destroyer was returning from the United States when eight crew members were swept into the Caribbean Sea by wind and waves. …
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Rating 3.6
Flowing Generations 澎湃 · 第六声 Zhonghua Book Company · 2025 This book is a collection of outstanding works from the English-language nonfiction writing contest held by Sixth Tone, the all-digital English-langua…
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Rating 3.8
The Inquisition 丁捷 Press of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China · 2017 The Inquisition is a work of long-form anti-corruption reportage by the writer Ding Jie, published in April 2017 by the Party School of the Central Co…
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Twelve Years a Slave 所罗门·诺萨普 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2017 Twelve Years a Slave is an autobiographical memoir published in 1853 by Solomon Northup, an African American. Born in 1808 in Minerva, New York, he wa…
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Rating 4.3
Life Elsewhere 晏礼中 China Overseas Publishing House · 2012 Life Elsewhere is a collection of interviews that journalist Yan Lizhong accumulated over several years, subtitled "20 Portraits of Ordinary People." …
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Rating 3.6
Out of the Darkest 贺绪林 Taibai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This is a work of autobiographical nonfiction by the renowned writer He Xulin—a celebrated author who, like Shi Tiesheng, writes from a wheelchair. He…