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How-To Genre – What’s the best definition for the how-to genre? The how-to nonfiction book genre is made up of books that explain, with detailed description, how-to do, make, use, fix, repair, or accomplish something. The books in the how-to genre are meant to help non-experts preform specific tasks. The most common are books that explain how to fix or repair something, or that explain something in simple terms that is very complicated (possibly things pertaining to technology or science).

With the popularity of self-help books, how-to books became broader in their spectrum of instruction assistance. But, the most common how-to books have to do with creating something or working something that is beyond the readers existing knowledge.

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how-to genre book coverHow-To Genre – Examples

Review this list of popular examples to help you get a better understanding of the how-to nonfiction genre.

1. Conquering Babel: a Practical Guide to Learning a Language by Claire Handscombe

2. Families and How to Survive Them by Robin Skynner, John Cleese

3. How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking by Nigella Lawson

4. How to Be a Hermit, or a Bachelor Keeps House by Will Cuppy

5. How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen

6. How to Be Good by Nick Hornby

7. How to Become Extinct by Will Cuppy

8. How to Become Ridiculously Well-read in One Evening: A Collection of Literary Encapsulations by E.O. Parrott

9. How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman

10. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

11. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young

12. How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom

13. How to Study History by Norman F. Cantor

14. How to Survive in Your Native Land by James Herndon

15. How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard

16. How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce

17. How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes by Will Cuppy

18. How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays by Umberto Eco

19. How to Use Your Eyes by James Elkins

20. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

21. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin E.P. Seligman

22. Life and How To Survive It by Robin Skynner

23. The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education by Grace Llewellyn

24. They F*** You Up: How To Survive Family Life by Oliver James

25. When I Say No, I Feel Guilty: How to Cope – Using the Skills of Systematic Assertive Therapy by Manuel J. Smith

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How-To Genre – Related Book Genres

* Cookbook Genre

* Cooking Book Genre

* Crafts Book Genre

* Personal Development Genre

* Self-Help Definition

* General Nonfiction Book Genre

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