Building Together: A Memoir of Our Lives in Seattle by William J. Bain Sr. and Mildred C. Bain (1991)
Building Tradition: Pan-Asian Seattle and Life in the Residential Hotels by Marie Rose Wong (2018)
Campus Guide University of Washington by Werner Weidert (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001)
The Cayton Legacy – An African American Family by Richard S. Hobbs
Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name by David M. Buerge (2017)
Crossing Puget Sound: From Black Ball Steamer to Washington State Ferries by Steven J. Pickens (2019)
Deciding to See: The View from Nathan's Bus by Nathan Vass (2025)
Denny's Knoll: A History of the Metropolitan Tract of the University of Washington by Neal O. Hines (University of Washington Press, 1980)
Distant Corner: Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H. H. Richardson by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner and Dennis Alan Andersen (University of Washington Press, 2003)
Early Seattle Profiles by Henry Broderick (1959)
Eccentric Seattle by J. Kingston Pierce (2003)
Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle by Matthew Klingle (Yale University Press, 2007)
Emerald Street: A History of Hip Hop in Seattle by Daudi Abe (2020)
The Forging of A Black Community Seattle's Central District, From 1870 Through the Civil Rights Era by Quintard Taylor (University of Washington Press, 2022)
The Fountain and the Mountain by Norman Johnston (University of Washington, 1995)
The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World's Fair and Its Legacy by Paula Becker and Alan J. Stein (2011)
The Gang of Four: Four Leaders. Four Communities. One Friendship by Bob Santos (2015)
Gay Seattle by Gary Atkins (2003)
Ghosts of Seattle Past – An Anthology curated by author/editor Jaimee Garbacik (2017)
Revolutionary Feminists: the Women's Liberation Movement in Seattle by Barbara Winslow (Duke University Press, 2023)
Rising Tides and Tailwinds: the Story of the Port of Seattle by Casey McNerthney (2024)
The River That Made Seattle A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish by BJ Cummings
Roadside Geology of Washington by David D. Alt (1984)
Seattle and the Orient by Alfred Bowen (1900)
Seattle Architecture: A Walking Guide to Downtown by Maureen R. Elenga (2007)
The Seattle Book: the Weekly's Guide to Seattle by David Brewster and Rebecca Earnest (1978)
Seattle City of Literature: Reflections From a Community of Writers edited by Ryan Boudinot (2015)
Seattle Cityscape and Seattle Cityscape #2 by Victor Steinbrueck (University of Washington Press, 1962)
Seattle Cocktails by Neil Ratliff (2022)
Seattle Curiosities by Steve Pomper (2009)
Seattle Illustrated (1890)
Seattle in Black and White by Joan Singler, Jean C. Durning, Bettylou Valentine, and Martha J. Adams (2011)
Seattle in the Great Depression: a History of Business, Labor, and Politics Drawn From Local Chronicles by Bruce A. Ramsey (Washington State University Press, 2025)
Seattle Justice: the Rise and Fall of the Police Payoff System in Seattle by Christopher T. Bayley (2015)
Seattle Now and Then by Paul Dorpat; Jean Sherrard (2018)
Seattle, Past to Present by Roger Sale (University of Washington Press, 1976)
Seattle Prohibition: Bootleggers, Rumrunners and Graft in the Queen City by Brad Holden (2019)
Seattle Samurai: a Cartoonist's Perspective of the Japanese American Perspective by Kelly Goto (2024)
Seattle Then & Now by James Madison Collins (2000)
Seattle Walks: Discovering History and Nature in the City by David B. Williams (University of Washington Press, 2017)
Seattle's Beacon Hill by Frederica Merrell (Arcadia, 2003)
Seattle's Women Teachers of the Interwar Years: Shapers of a Livable City by Doris Hinson Pieroth
Seattleness: A Cultural Atlas by Tera Hatfield, Jenny Kempson, and Natalie Ross (2022)
Shaper of Seattle: Reginald Heber Thomson's Pacific Northwest by William H. Wilson (Washington State University Press, 2009)
Shaping Seattle Architecture Second Edition by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner (University of Washington Press, 2014)
Shaping the Public Good: Women Making History in the Pacific Northwest by Sue Armitage (Oregon State University Press, 2015)
Shared Walls: Seattle Apartment Buildings 1900–1939 by Diana James
Signs of Vanishing Seattle by Cynthia Brothers (2024)
Silent Stars on the Stages of Seattle by Eric L. Flom (2009)
Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle by Murray Morgan (1951)
"Seattle Nonfiction". Official website. Seattle Public Library. August 2025. Take a trip through the many stories of Seattle with these adult nonfiction books, published 2023–2025, and selected by our librarians.
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