Hi all, I've been reading a lot of nonfiction Historical novels and memoirs. Some of my favorites are The Radium Girls, Killers of the Flower Moon, Black Flags, Know My Name, and The Warmth of Other Suns.
Based on these books, what book(s) would you recommend?
by jorgy41789
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I’m a bit confused by what you are describing. Are you describing historical fiction or nonfiction? (Novels are fiction by definition.)
You may enjoy First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung. It’s a memoir about a little girl surviving through the political crisis in Cambodia in the 70s.
*War of the Rats* by David L. Robbins. It’s about Soviet and German snipers stalking each other during the Battle of Stalingrad. Based on real events and characters, but written like a novel, with imagined/invented details.
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**The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks** (Rebecca Skloot), about how cells taken from a non-consenting black woman have become a pivotal tool in modern medicine.
**My Life in Orange** (Tim Guest), about growing up in the Rajneeshi cult.
**No Good Men Among the Living** (Anand Gopal), about the US involvement in Afghanistan.
**Stasiland** (Anna Funder), about life in East Berlin.
**Five Days at Memorial** (Sheri Fink), about a hospital in New Orleans that began euthanizing patients during Katrina.
**The Five** (Hallie Rubenfold), about the women Jack the Ripper murdered
**In the Heart of the Sea** (Nathaniel Philbrick), about the sinking of the whaleship Essex, and how that went on to inspire Moby Dick.
**Lost Paradise** (Kathy Marks), about the sex abuse trials on Pitcairn Island.
**The Devil’s Highway** (Luis Alberto Urrea), about the tragedy that befell a group of migrants trying to cross the US/Mexico border.
**River of Doubt** (Candice Millard), about Teddy Roosevelt’s ill-advised exploration of an Amazon tributary.
**King Leopold’s Ghost** (Adam Hochschild), about the atrocities the Belgians committed in the Congo.
**Midnight in Peking** (Paul French), where the murder investigation of a young English woman unfolds against the backdrop of Old China.
**Without You There Is No Us** (Suki Kim), about a journalist going undercover as an evangelist going undercover as a teacher at a university in Pyongyang.
Try any of Marie Benedict’s books. The Only Woman In the Room, Carnegie’s Maid, The Other Einstein, Her Hidden Genius, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie.