10 best books of narrative nonfiction

These 10 books represent the best of narrative nonfiction.

7. 'We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families,' by Philip Gourevitch

An account of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, Gourevitch’s book is based on extensive interviews with survivors and victims of the violence between Hutus and Tutsis. He zooms out at points to recount the history of Rwanda, but the book never loses the immediacy and urgency of the individual perspectives that he skillfully re-creates.

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