I am a huge bookworm , who has unfortunately stuck to fiction all her life. While I enjoy that (especially crime thrillers, romance and fantasy), in the past year I have set a goal for myself to read more non-fiction. I think they are a great way to understand context behind so much that’s happening around the world, whether it’s economical, social or cultural standpoint.
So yeah! I would love to hear your recs and why you think others should read that. Specifically if it’s something history related that has explained a phenomenon or the effects of an event.
I have read the following so far (a very limited nonfiction list)
– The Fastlane Millionaire by MJ Demarco
– Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kushiro and Fumitake Koga
– 101 Essays that Will Change The Way You think by Brianna West
– Deep Work – Cal Newport
– An Era of Darkness – Sashi Tharoor
– Meditations by Marcus Aurelious
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I bet you’d enjoy Killers of the Flower Moon, both a fascinating social history and a crime element. I see that most of your read list is essay/self-help so thought you might enjoy a change of pace too!
Weapons of Math Destruction
7 Brief Lessons on Physics
Dreamland
How the World Really Works
How Nations Fail
Poor Economics
The Big Sort
Say Nothing
These are some good but random ones that come to mind that I’ve read recently. Let me know if you have anything more specific you’re looking for
* Debt the first 5000 years is a great one that fundamentally challenges all you know about how the world works.
* Nuclear War A Scenario is horror
* The internet con is a great read if you’re into technology
* Made to break is like the internet con, but about general things
* Blood Sweat and pixels if you’re into gaming and interested about behind the scenes stuff
Some nonfiction crime books I’ve enjoyed over the years:
*The Day Lincoln Was Shot* by Jim Bishop.
*Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln* by Edward Steers Jr.
*The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street: Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Erie Railway Wars, and the Birth of Wall Street* by John Steele Gordon.
*Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield* by Kenneth D. Ackerman.
*The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country* by Laton McCartney.
*Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK* by Gerald Posner.
*Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders* by Vincent Bugliosi.
*Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion* by Gary Webb.
*Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw* by Mark Bowden.
How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough
The 6th extinction. Perfect timing for the age that we live in