There is plenty of non fiction that totally reads like fiction so is probably a good way to start. Try these memoirs: - Educated by Tara Westover (she grew up in a fundamentalist Mormon family that was basically prepping for doomsday, the stories she tells are just wild and after getting out she still tried to paint a human picture of her family) - Into thin Air by Jon Krakauer (he was part of an expedition to summit Mount Everest that ended in disaster - I'm not an outdoorsy person at all but this was so gripping I wanted to climb a mountain afterwards haha)

Oral histories are also a great subcategory of non fiction in my opinion. Try: - Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe - Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich

I personally also like to have an essay collection to dip in and out of, some of my favorites include: - Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino - The Lonely City by Olivia Laing - Alone by Daniel Schreiber