Taiohi: Non-fiction titles you'll enjoyUnpublished

There isn't very much non-fiction out there that is published specifically for young adults, so we've brushed off some of our favourite titles from across our library collections that we promise you will enjoy.

Updated November 27, 2025

Wellington City Libraries Youth team at Wellington City Libraries

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Taiohi: Non-fiction titles you'll enjoy

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The Anthropocene reviewed : essays on a human-centered planet

Green, John

Paper Book

Goodreads Choice winner for Nonfiction 2021 and instant #1 bestseller! A deeply moving collection of personal essays from John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down. "The perfect book for right now." -People <...

Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster

Krakauer, Jon

Paper Book

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus...

What if? : serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions

Munroe, Randall

Paper Book

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask. Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology,...

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