The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, David Grann
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“Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny by John Bew
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The rape of Nanking
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“It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War” by Lynsey Addario
BenH64 on
Jack Charltons autobiography
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Black and British by David Olusoga
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Midnight in Chernobyl. It’s the most comprehensive and enthralling nonfiction book about a historical moment I’ve ever read. Usually books like this tend to be dry but it’s far from it.
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Prisoners of the Castle by Ben MacIntyre
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Oof tough to pick just one, as I’ve read some great non fiction this year. Some of my top picks are:
* The Wager by David Grann
* King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
* How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
* Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson*
*If I had to pick, this might be my favorite.
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I loved The Deepest Map by Laura Trethewey. It’s about the race to map the deepest parts of the world’s oceans, but it covers so much more— the woman oceanographer who proved the existence of continental drift, the billionaire who decided to go to the deepest part of each ocean (and the oceanographer who was hired to figure out where the hell that was in most oceans), the life discovered down there, and the ethical challenges of the corporations who want to use the maps to mine… She travels on the ships and interviews the scientists so that it’s almost got a memoir feel in some places, and she writes so well. She especially does a good job explaining the technology in a way that was easy to understand for non-science readers. I learned so much and it was such a pleasure.
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All About Me! By Mel Brooks.
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Lost City of the Monkey God
Med9876 on
Thinderclap: a Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming. Absolutely beautiful writing on a subject I didn’t know I’d find so fascinatin! Best book I’ve read in many years. Got it out of the library and then bought copies for myself and several friends: not something I’ve ever done before. It’s partly about Dutch art in the first half of the 17th century and part memoir.
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The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko (The Epic Fastest Ride Ever Through the Grand Canyon)
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, David Grann
“Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny by John Bew
The rape of Nanking
“It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War” by Lynsey Addario
Jack Charltons autobiography
Black and British by David Olusoga
Midnight in Chernobyl. It’s the most comprehensive and enthralling nonfiction book about a historical moment I’ve ever read. Usually books like this tend to be dry but it’s far from it.
Prisoners of the Castle by Ben MacIntyre
Oof tough to pick just one, as I’ve read some great non fiction this year. Some of my top picks are:
* The Wager by David Grann
* King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
* How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
* Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson*
*If I had to pick, this might be my favorite.
I loved The Deepest Map by Laura Trethewey. It’s about the race to map the deepest parts of the world’s oceans, but it covers so much more— the woman oceanographer who proved the existence of continental drift, the billionaire who decided to go to the deepest part of each ocean (and the oceanographer who was hired to figure out where the hell that was in most oceans), the life discovered down there, and the ethical challenges of the corporations who want to use the maps to mine… She travels on the ships and interviews the scientists so that it’s almost got a memoir feel in some places, and she writes so well. She especially does a good job explaining the technology in a way that was easy to understand for non-science readers. I learned so much and it was such a pleasure.
All About Me! By Mel Brooks.
Lost City of the Monkey God
Thinderclap: a Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming. Absolutely beautiful writing on a subject I didn’t know I’d find so fascinatin! Best book I’ve read in many years. Got it out of the library and then bought copies for myself and several friends: not something I’ve ever done before. It’s partly about Dutch art in the first half of the 17th century and part memoir.
The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko (The Epic Fastest Ride Ever Through the Grand Canyon)
grit by angela duckworth
Sapiens, Yoval Harari
The Indifferent Stars Above