I listen to a lot of audiobooks and usually I do fiction but I’m in a nonfiction mood! I’ll read about any topic as long as it’s interesting and well written.
I can highly recommend anything by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir if you like (nordic) crime/thrillers! I have never read any of her books, but only listened to the audio books – and loved them! The atmosphere, the plots and the characters…. really captivating! Perfect for long car rides.
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Here are a few of my 5-stars:
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds –Caroline Van Hemert
The Big Picture –Sean Carrol
Thinking, Fast and Slow –Danny Kahneman
I Contain Multitudes –Ed Yong
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going –Vaclav Smil
Enlightenment Now –Steve Pinker
The Hacking of the American Mind –Robert Lustig
The End of the World is Just the Beginning –Peter Zeihan
Pale Blue Dot –Carl Sagan
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time –Dava Sobel
The Uninhabitable Earth –David Wallace-Wells
Justice For Animals –Martha Nussbaum
This is Vegan Propaganda –Ed Winters
Psych: The Story of the Human Mind –Paul Bloom
Never Split the Difference –Chris Voss
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*Unmask Alice* by Rick Emerson is about the literary hoax of *Go Ask Alice*, so engaging I finished it in a day.
*Lady Killers* and *Confident Women*, both by Tori Telfer, are about female serial killers and female con artists respectively, super addictive.
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I found the audiobook of *Unbroken* by Hillenbrand totally captivating. I don’t do many audiobooks but that one worked.
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The Empire of Pain audiobook is so good. It’s about the Sackler family and how they profited off OxyContin
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Non-fiction is a giant genre with many subgenres. It would help us to help you if you could specify what kind of non-fiction you are in the mood for (history, science, biography/memoir, comedy, social commentary, self help, etc. etc.
Braiding Sweetgrass (must read! must listen! Do not pass go, do not collect $200!)
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey
Shrill
Killers of the Flower Moon
Anthropocene Reviewed
The Comfort Book
Anything/everything by Brene Brown (Rising Strong is my favorite, but a lot of people start with Daring Greatly or Gifts of Imperfection. Save Atlas of the Heart until you’ve read a few of her others though.)
Anything by Mary Roach (Stiff seems to be the most popular)
Information : a history, a theory, a flood
Sapiens
Freakonomics
Ghost in the Wires
Permanent Record
Atomic Habits
Greenlights
Year Book
Born a Crime
You’re Doing Great
Endurance
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sapiens by yuval noah harari!!!
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*Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane* by Andrew Graham-Dixon
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Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
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Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
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Immune by Philip Dettmer – funny and fascinating book about the immune system
History: anything by Candice Millard (biographies of less well known figures) or Ben Macintyre (mostly WWII British espionage books that read like thrillers)
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I can highly recommend anything by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir if you like (nordic) crime/thrillers! I have never read any of her books, but only listened to the audio books – and loved them! The atmosphere, the plots and the characters…. really captivating! Perfect for long car rides.
Here are a few of my 5-stars:
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds –Caroline Van Hemert
The Big Picture –Sean Carrol
Thinking, Fast and Slow –Danny Kahneman
I Contain Multitudes –Ed Yong
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going –Vaclav Smil
Enlightenment Now –Steve Pinker
The Hacking of the American Mind –Robert Lustig
The End of the World is Just the Beginning –Peter Zeihan
Pale Blue Dot –Carl Sagan
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time –Dava Sobel
The Uninhabitable Earth –David Wallace-Wells
Justice For Animals –Martha Nussbaum
This is Vegan Propaganda –Ed Winters
Psych: The Story of the Human Mind –Paul Bloom
Never Split the Difference –Chris Voss
*Unmask Alice* by Rick Emerson is about the literary hoax of *Go Ask Alice*, so engaging I finished it in a day.
*Lady Killers* and *Confident Women*, both by Tori Telfer, are about female serial killers and female con artists respectively, super addictive.
I found the audiobook of *Unbroken* by Hillenbrand totally captivating. I don’t do many audiobooks but that one worked.
The Empire of Pain audiobook is so good. It’s about the Sackler family and how they profited off OxyContin
Non-fiction is a giant genre with many subgenres. It would help us to help you if you could specify what kind of non-fiction you are in the mood for (history, science, biography/memoir, comedy, social commentary, self help, etc. etc.
Braiding Sweetgrass (must read! must listen! Do not pass go, do not collect $200!)
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey
Shrill
Killers of the Flower Moon
Anthropocene Reviewed
The Comfort Book
Anything/everything by Brene Brown (Rising Strong is my favorite, but a lot of people start with Daring Greatly or Gifts of Imperfection. Save Atlas of the Heart until you’ve read a few of her others though.)
Anything by Mary Roach (Stiff seems to be the most popular)
Information : a history, a theory, a flood
Sapiens
Freakonomics
Ghost in the Wires
Permanent Record
Atomic Habits
Greenlights
Year Book
Born a Crime
You’re Doing Great
Endurance
sapiens by yuval noah harari!!!
*Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane* by Andrew Graham-Dixon
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
Immune by Philip Dettmer – funny and fascinating book about the immune system
History: anything by Candice Millard (biographies of less well known figures) or Ben Macintyre (mostly WWII British espionage books that read like thrillers)
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