I run a book club for women and have a great list of fiction books but definitely need some nonfiction suggestions. We’ll read anything that’s interesting. Thank you!
Educated was a big hit with my book club. Also consider The Glass Castle or the Tender Bar (all are memoirs)
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*The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness* by John Waller
*Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War* by Richard A. Serrano
*1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed* by Eric Cline
*Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture* by Ross King
*The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century* by Edward Dolnick
*The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting* by Ben Lewis
*The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece* by Laura Cumming
*The Raphael Trail: The Secret History of One of the World’s Most Precious Works of Art* by Joanna Pitman
*The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece* by Jonathan Harr
*Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane* by Andrew Graham-Dixon
*The Devil’s Mercedes: The Bizarre and Disturbing Adventures of Hitler’s Limousine in America* by Robert Klara
*Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best* by Neal Bascomb
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Save me the plums by Ruth Reichl “Complete with recipes, Save Me the Plums is a personal journey of a woman coming to terms with being in charge and making a mark, following a passion and holding on to her dreams—even when she ends up in a place she never expected to be.”
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Educated was a big hit with my book club. Also consider The Glass Castle or the Tender Bar (all are memoirs)
*The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness* by John Waller
*Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War* by Richard A. Serrano
*1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed* by Eric Cline
*Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture* by Ross King
*The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century* by Edward Dolnick
*The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting* by Ben Lewis
*The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece* by Laura Cumming
*The Raphael Trail: The Secret History of One of the World’s Most Precious Works of Art* by Joanna Pitman
*The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece* by Jonathan Harr
*Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane* by Andrew Graham-Dixon
*The Devil’s Mercedes: The Bizarre and Disturbing Adventures of Hitler’s Limousine in America* by Robert Klara
*Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best* by Neal Bascomb
Save me the plums by Ruth Reichl “Complete with recipes, Save Me the Plums is a personal journey of a woman coming to terms with being in charge and making a mark, following a passion and holding on to her dreams—even when she ends up in a place she never expected to be.”
Shrill
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey
Braiding Sweetgrass
Wild: from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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