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Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People, The Only Plane in the Sky, How Democracies Die, The Demon in the Freezer.
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
Anything by Mary Roach.
Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris.
Bad Astronomy by Philip Plait.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Books by Erik Larsen, Mary Roach, Jon Krakauer are always good.
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande is probably one of my all-time favorite books ever.
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson is excellent.
If you like the Princess Bride, As You Wish by Cary Elwes (the audiobook especially) is fantastic.
If you like music, Anatomy Of A Song by Marc Myers is super interesting and fun (plus there’s an accompanying playlist on Spotify!)
The Tyranny of Metrics is a great quick read…and will help you annoy the HR people at work.
Evicted by Matthew Desmond.
*The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power: 1653-2000* by John Steele Gordon.
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
A Short History of Time by Stephen Hawking
8 Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by J. And J. Gottman
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
If You Tell by Gregg Olsen
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan
Invisible Women by Caroline Perez
Tyranny of Merit by Michael Sandel
Anything by Ross King, John Keay, John Julius Norwich, Neal Bascomb, Edward Dolnick, and Simon Schama.
*Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS Titanic* by Daniel Allen Butler
*Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans* by A. J. Baime
*The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness* by John Waller
*King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa* by Adam Hochschild
*Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society: America’s Original Gangsters and the U.S. Postal Detective Who Brought Them to Justice* by Victoria Bruce and William Oldfield
*The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West* by Jeff Guinn
*Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War* by Richard A. Serran
*The Devil’s Mercedes: The Bizarre and Disturbing Adventures of Hitler’s Limousine in America* by Robert Klara
*The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer* by Anne-Marie O’Connor
*The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece* by Jonathan Harr
*The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece* by Laura Cumming
*Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea* by Barbara Demick