It textures Karl Marlantes's war novel "Matterhorn," published last year, and provides the mournful keynote to his new nonfiction book, "What It is Like to Go to war."

这为卡尔·玛兰特斯一年前出版的的战争小说《马特洪峰》建立起架构，而且为他的写实的新书《参战的感觉》提供了沉痛的主题。

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As a result, this is an eclectic list—from an 800-page science fiction novel by a local legend to a 200-page nonfiction book on how Japan can get its economic mojo back.

因此，这是个主题很宽泛的书单，其中既有来自西雅图知名作家的800页科幻小说，也有200页的非小说类图书——介绍日本经济如何奇迹般复苏。

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Reading a dull, charmless nonfiction book is almost always better than reading a dull, charmless novel. With a nonfiction book, you might at least learn something.

相比一本沉闷又不好看的小说，一本同样沉闷不好看的科普读物总是要更给力，概因科普读物至少能给你科普一下。

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Daniel Defoe may have written the first nonfiction novel "A Journal of the Plague Year, " published in 1722, an account of the year the Black Death decimated London.

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The sense of a novel being nonfiction can come from borrowing characters and events from life but also purely from the prose.

WSJ: Dear Book Lover: Fiction that Reads Like Nonfiction

They zeroed in on Mr. Preston because of his science writing background, which included nonfiction books about astronomy, steel and viruses, as well as a novel about bioterrorism.

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