Anything by Erik Larson, who can write about real events in a style that feels like a novel instead of a history textbook. Devil In The White City, In The Garden Of Beasts, etc.
Anything by John Krakauer is amazing. Into Thin Air (disaster on Mt Everest), Where Men Win Glory (Pat Tillman and Afghanistan), Into The Wild (guy walks literally into the Alaskan wilderness), etc.
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The Indifferent Stars Above- Daniel James Brown
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The Bible
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If you liked the Harry Potter movies then you might like Tom Felton’s book Beyond the Wand.
As You Wish by Cary Elwes is great for Princess Bride Fans.
I’m currently reading Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage. It’s a bit dry, but still pretty interesting.
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
The Library Book by Susan Orleans
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
The Wager by David Grann
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The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
Between The World And Me – Ta Nehesi-Coates
Two of my all-time favs. Enjoy!
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The Guns of August
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You could try memoirs
Oreokid26 on
The Boys in the Boat by Brown
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Human Kind by Rutger Bergman. It’s uplifting, informative, and is written in an accessible way.
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Yeager, Chuck Yeager’s autobiography. It reads like fiction.
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I just finished “The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel” by Douglas Brunt and it is so good!
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Chaos – Tom O’niell. Fascinating account of the Manson murders and the CIA
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I’m glad my mother died
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I am currently reading “The Land of a Thousand Hills.” it definitely reads like fiction but is a memoir. Amazing book I haven’t put it down all day.
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Charlie Wilson’s War, The Mind Illuminated, The Tiger.
Think, fast and slow – Daniel Kahneman.
The book is about psychology, the two sides of our consciousness, how they interact, what cognitive distortions they can produce and much more.
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life – Nick Lane.
About biology, how life on earth originated and why it is so unlikely, why we age and why it is inevitable, how the cell works and why it happened, why cells behave like a single organism and why sometimes some of them do not obey (about cancer), why living beings have two or more sexes, and so on. Quite a complex book, a lot of scientific terms and concepts to understand.
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Killers of the Flower Moon
Devil in the White City (historical fiction)
Killer Angels (historical fiction)
Anything by Erik Larson, who can write about real events in a style that feels like a novel instead of a history textbook. Devil In The White City, In The Garden Of Beasts, etc.
Anything by John Krakauer is amazing. Into Thin Air (disaster on Mt Everest), Where Men Win Glory (Pat Tillman and Afghanistan), Into The Wild (guy walks literally into the Alaskan wilderness), etc.
The Indifferent Stars Above- Daniel James Brown
The Bible
If you liked the Harry Potter movies then you might like Tom Felton’s book Beyond the Wand.
As You Wish by Cary Elwes is great for Princess Bride Fans.
I’m currently reading Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage. It’s a bit dry, but still pretty interesting.
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
The Library Book by Susan Orleans
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
The Wager by David Grann
The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
Between The World And Me – Ta Nehesi-Coates
Two of my all-time favs. Enjoy!
The Guns of August
You could try memoirs
The Boys in the Boat by Brown
Human Kind by Rutger Bergman. It’s uplifting, informative, and is written in an accessible way.
Yeager, Chuck Yeager’s autobiography. It reads like fiction.
I just finished “The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel” by Douglas Brunt and it is so good!
Chaos – Tom O’niell. Fascinating account of the Manson murders and the CIA
I’m glad my mother died
I am currently reading “The Land of a Thousand Hills.” it definitely reads like fiction but is a memoir. Amazing book I haven’t put it down all day.
Charlie Wilson’s War, The Mind Illuminated, The Tiger.
[Random Family](https://books.google.com/books/about/Random_Family.html?id=tYB7meIDIyQC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1#v=onepage&q&f=false). It’s written by an ethnographer who followed the lives of these young Puerto Rican girls in NY over the course of like 11 years. It is so good. I missed all the girls when I was finished reading it. It was so informative to peek into their world.
East of eden
Think, fast and slow – Daniel Kahneman.
The book is about psychology, the two sides of our consciousness, how they interact, what cognitive distortions they can produce and much more.
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life – Nick Lane.
About biology, how life on earth originated and why it is so unlikely, why we age and why it is inevitable, how the cell works and why it happened, why cells behave like a single organism and why sometimes some of them do not obey (about cancer), why living beings have two or more sexes, and so on. Quite a complex book, a lot of scientific terms and concepts to understand.
A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan.
“[The Glass Castle](https://www.amazon.com/The-Glass-Castle-Jeannette-Walls-audiobook/dp/B0044X4QEA/ref=sr_1_1?crid=150CLGSSF2HPD&keywords=the+glass+cattle+book&qid=1696424396&sprefix=the+glass+castle+book%2Caps%2C166&sr=8-1)” by Jeannette Walls is a memoir about the author’s unconventional and often difficult childhood, growing up in poverty with eccentric parents and a good read!
In the dream house is a memoir written in prose so it feels like fiction
Happy Bottom Riding Club- life and times of Pancho Barns