Nonfiction Authors
- Richard Abanes
- J.R. Ackerley
- Peter Ackroyd
- Douglas Adams
- Jessica Adams
- Noah Adams
- Joe Adamson
- Jerry Ahern
- Charlotte Vale Allen
- David Allen
- Poul Anderson
- Roger Angell
- Donald Antrim
- Hannah Arendt
- Ashokamitran
- Isaac Asimov
- Nicholson Baker
- James Bamford
- Lynne Reid Banks
- Matsuo Basho
- Joel ben Izzy
- Alan Bennett
- Bernard Berenson
- Julia Blackburn
- Lawrence Block
- Bill Bonner
- William Borden
- Herman Charles Bosman
- Blanche McCrary Boyd
- Melvyn Bragg
- Max Brand
- David Brin
- Dan Brown
- Bill Bryson
- Pearl S. Buck
- Chandler Burr
- William S. Burroughs
- Albert Camus
- Karel Capek
- Truman Capote
- Robert Caro
- Pedro Carolino
- Carrington
- Lewis Carroll
- Angela Carter
- Stephen L. Carter
- Justin Cartwright
- Lisa Carver
- Jung Chang
- G. K. Chesterton
- Harold Hannyngton Child
- Noam Chomsky
- Tom Clancy
- Mary Higgins Clark
- Jeff Clark-Meads
- Jeffrey Cohen
- Pat Conroy
- Douglas Coupland
- Joseph Cowley
- Quentin Crisp
- A. J. Cronin
- Aleister Crowley
- Chris Crutcher
- Rachel Cusk
- Clive Cussler
- Charles Darwin
- Robertson Davies
- Richard Dawkins
- Thomas de Quincy
- Daniel C. Dennett
- Jared Diamond
- Denis Diderot
- Joan Didion
- Garry Disher
- James Doohan
- Stephen Dubner
- Andre Dubus
- John Gregory Dunne
- Lon Milo DuQuette
- Umberto Eco
- Leon Edel
- Dave Eggers
- James Ellroy
- Per Olov Enquist
- Sebastian Faulks
- Ann Fessler
- M. F. K. Fisher
- Ian Fleming
- Mick Foley
- Horton Foote
- Ford Madox Ford
- Matthew Fox
- Janet Frame
- Viktor Emil Frankl
- Antonia Fraser
- George MacDonald Fraser
- Sigmund Freud
- David D. Friedman
- Milton Friedman
- Thomas L. Friedman
- Erich Fromm
- Alexandra Fuller
- Joel Garreau
- Laurie Garrett
- Atul Gawande
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Victoria Glendinning
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Witold Gombrowicz
- Mary Gordon
- Vivian Gornick
- Elizabeth Goudge
- M. H. Graham
- Robert Graves
- Robert Greene
- Zane Grey
- Jerome Groopman
- Joyce Hackett
- Carolyn Haines
- June Hall McCash
- Helene Hanff
- Robert Harris
- Kathryn Harrison
- Robert Heinlein
- Joseph Heller
- Robin Marantz Henig
- John Hersey
- Christopher Hitchens
- Adolf Hitler
- Eric Hoffer
- Abbie Hoffman
- Barbara Holland
- Amber Hollibaugh
- Richard Holmes
- Michael Holroyd
- John Holt
- Stacy Horn
- Nick Hornby
- Langston Hughes
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Conn Iggulden
- John Irving
- Christopher Isherwood
- Jane Jacobs
- Dean James
- Kay Redfield Jamison
- Randall Jarrell
- Julian Jaynes
- Derrick Jensen
- Joyce Johnson
- M. M. Kaye
- Harry Kemelman
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Haven Kimmel
- Florence King
- Jane Kirkpatrick
- Chuck Klosterman
- Jon Krakauer
- Pamela Kruger
- Anne Lamott
- Robert J. Langs
- RD Larson
- Jennifer Lauck
- Elisabeth Le Guin
- William Least Heat Moon
- Gus Lee
- Stanislaw Lem
- Brad Listi
- David Lodge
- Sandra Tsing Loh
- Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- Nelson Mandela
- Jeffrey Marks
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Charles McCarry
- Geraldine McCaughrean
- David McCullough
- Jay McInerney
- Tom McNab
- Ved Mehta
- H.L. Mencken
- James A. Michener
- Maryann Miller
- Giles Milton
- Yukio Mishima
- Jacquelyn Mitchard
- Nancy Mitford
- Paul Monette
- Mary Morris
- John Mortimer
- Howard Moss
- Haruki Murakami
- Sara Nelson
- Adam Nicolson
- Nigel Nicolson
- Patrick O'Brian
- P.J. O'Rourke
- George Orwell
- Mary Pope Osborne
- Elaine Pagels
- Ann Patchett
- Gary Paulsen
- Konstantin Paustovsky
- Walker Percy
- Lewis Perdue
- John Perkins
- Cathy Pickens
- Daniel Pinchbeck
- Neil Plakcy
- Michael Porter
- Virginia Postrel
- Chaim Potok
- Emily Prager
- Anna Quindlen
- Jonathan Raban
- Ayn Rand
- Phyllis Raphael
- Mary Renault
- Anne Rice
- Mordecai Richler
- Mary Roach
- Thane Rosenbaum
- Mark Rotella
- Betty Rothbart
- Arundhati Roy
- Elizabeth Royte
- Muriel Rukeyser
- Ann Rule
- Michael Ruppert
- John Ruskin
- Oliver Sacks
- Vita Sackville-West
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- George Saunders
- Olive Schreiner
- W. G. Sebald
- Alice Sebold
- David Sedaris
- George Shaffner
- Anna Shapiro
- Dani Shapiro
- Laura Shapiro
- William Shatner
- Owen Sheers
- David Sheff
- Michael Shermer
- John Smale
- Cordwainer Smith
- L. Neil Smith
- Jill Smolowe
- Joseph B. Soloveitchik
- Muriel Spark
- Hilary Spurling
- Gertrude Stein
- Bram Stoker
- Irving Stone
- Lytton Strachey
- Noel Streatfeild
- E. C. Streeter
- Theodore Sturgeon
- Teresa of Avila
- Jim Thompson
- Calvin Trillin
- Lynne Truss
- Helen Tse
- Jules Verne
- Ivan Vladislavic
- William T. Vollmann
- Sarah Vowell
- Alice Walker
- Rebecca Walker
- Jonathan Weiner
- Alison Weir
- H.G. Wells
- Bailey White
- E. B. White
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Jeanette Winterson
- Tom Wolfe
- Richard Wright
- Xenophon
- Xinran
- Philip Yancey
- Carl Zimmer
- Stefan Zweig