I love non-fiction. Specifically historical events, wars, survival stories, natural disaster stories, etc.
Examples- I loved reading The House of Kennedy, Countdown 1949, Into Thin Air, Schindler’s List, Man’s Search for Meaning.
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Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage Society of the Snow or Alive: The story of the Andes Survivors. All three are very good.
Waters beneath my feet. The Tracker, Tom Brown Jr though how true this book is, can be up for debate. Regardless it is still a good story.
The Boys in the Boat
The hot zone by Richard Preston!
I thought Bad Blood by John Carreyou was incredible. It does not fit your historical, natural disaster, etc., but it definitely kept me hooked and up way past bedtime.
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer and Touching the Void by Joe Simpson.
Then you, too, can be an armchair mountain climber!
Richard Lloyd Parry’s Ghosts of the Tsunami
I Am a Hitman, by Anonymous. Devoured in two days
A Perfect Storm made me shake!
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe has some hair-raising scenes
*Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War* by Mark Bowden.
The Siege: 68 Hours inside the Taj Hotel. It’s about the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008, and it’s crazy good.
*Chaos: Making a New Science*, by James Gleick. It’s a kind of intellectual adventure story about the discovery of chaos theory, populated by wonderfully quirky characters and full of startling surprises and insights. It’s one of the all-time great science books, and top five in books that have permanently shifted my sense of reality.
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
Alive: the story of the Andes survivors by Pierce Paul Reads.
It’s an interesting read
We Die Alone, by David Howarth. Trust me.
Into the Heart of the Sea or Killers of the Flower Moon.
Chasing the Flame by Samantha Power – the life of a Brazilian diplomat at the UN. The way she writes about his life and personality is so incredibly gripping that even though I knew what had happened I was short of crying by the end.
*Dark Mirror* by Barton Gellman
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson. Definitely will have you on the edge of your seat and probably holding your breath too.
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick is great; it’s about the whaleship Essex disaster and was the inspiration for Moby Dick.