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 – Examples
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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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