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    Not “true crime” books.

    Apart from that, it can be on any topic, as long as you consider it to be meaningful and important.

    by ghostmosquito

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    1. MedievalHero on

      There’s a book called “Bad Therapy” by Abigail Shrier and it’s really eye-opening about how therapists are basically just taking money and doing the bare minimum. And, how they are literally keeping people in therapy, especially children, to have a long term source of income. It’s also about how parents have become obsessed with getting their children therapy after listening to the wrong people.

    2. Nobody Passes by Matilda Bernstein Sycamore

      Gender Trouble and Who’s Afraid of Gender by Judith Butler

      Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerrer

      Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam

      The Ugly History of Beautiful Things by Katy Kelleher

      Revered and Reviled: A Complete History of the Domestic Cat by L.A. Vocelle (my current read)

    3. The Cattle King and The Red Chief by Ion L. Idriess. The rwo are some of the best non fiction I’ve read.

    4. Neat_Researcher2541 on

      Shadow Hunters by Richard Kurson

      Dead Wake by Erik Larson

      Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

      Endurance by Alfred Lansing

      The Lost City of Z by David Grann

      The Wave by Susan Casey

      The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

    5. In no particular order:

      Popper, “The Open Society and Its Enemies”

      Applebaum, “Red Famine”

      Snyder, “Bloodlands”, “Black Earth”

      Fukuyama, “The Origins of Political Order”, “Political Order and Political Decay”

      Lifton, “Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of “Brainwashing” in China”

      Wachsmann, “KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps”

      Browning, “Ordinary Men”

      Burrough, “Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence”

      Freedman, “Strategy”

      Chang, “The Rape of Nanking”

      Tuchman, “The Guns of August”

      Mayer, “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45”

      Frankl, “Man’s Search for Meaning”

      Jünger, “Storm of Steel”

      Kemp, “Mine Were of Trouble”

      Acemoglu, Robinson, “Why Nations Fail”, “The Narrow Corridor”

      MacLaughlin, “Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter”

      Byrne, “The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in Which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols Are Used Instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners”

    6. BernardFerguson1944 on

      • *Code Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan—and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb* by Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar.

      *• The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II* by Iris Chang.

      • *Unit 731: Testimony* by Hal Gold.

      • *Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific* by Gavan Daws.

      • *Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb* by George Fiefer.

      • *The Prisoner and the Bomb* by Laurens van der Post.

      • *Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire* by Richard B. Frank.

      • *Truman and the Hiroshima Cult* by Robert P. Newman.

      • *Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II* by Marc Gallicchio.

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