Hey 👋
One of my resolutions for this year is to read one non-fiction book a month but I’m already struggling with deciding what I’ll read in April. I’m open to any genre within non-fiction.
This far I’ve read:
Stephen King’s On Writing
Amanda Montell’s Cultish: the language of fanaticism
Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love
Please send anything you found interesting, funny, educational, life-changing, etc. my way. Thanks!
by mbes16
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Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott!
Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
Something by Michael Lewis. My favorite is *Liar’s Poker*, which is about the bond market in the 80s and is far more entertaining than a book with that subject matter has any right to be. And if you like it, there’s a follow-up book of his articles called *The Money Culture*, another favorite of mine. Or pick one of his books that got the movie treatment–*Moneyball*, *The Blind Side*, or *The Big Short*. All top notch.
*The Cuckoo’s Egg* by Clifford Stoll – astronomer turned hacker accidentally detects foreign spies trying to break into the US defense system. He cyber-tracks them, eventually involving the FBI and the CIA. This was in 1988, the early days of the internet and near the end of the Cold War.
*The Corpse Had a Familiar Face* by Edna Buchanan – a Pulitzer Prize winning crime reporter for the Miami Herald reminisces about all the crazy crap she’s reported on over the years. Buchanan’s fast punchy prose keeps you turning the pages until there aren’t any left to turn. Then you go and get her second book, *Never Let Them See You Cry*.
*The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature* by C. S. Lewis – Distilled from his notes for lectures given to his Cambridge students to help them understand the medieval model of the universe.
When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
From Truant to Anime Screenwriter by Mari Okada
Sesame Street, Palestine by Daoud Kuttab
Drift by Rachel Maddow
Blowout by Rachel Maddow
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Blind Side by Michael Lewis
In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Sex Lives Of Cannibals by J Maarten Troost
Drinking: A Love Story, Caroline Knapp
When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand
Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
Assata, Assata Shakur
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Crying in HMart, Michelle Zauner
Yearbook by Seth Rogen was hilarious
Ohh all of those are great choices!
I’d recommend any Jon Krakauer (My faves are Missoula and Into the Wild), anything by Erika Fatland, and The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser (LOVE this one!).
I’m also currently reading A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs by Gulchehra Hoja and it is fantastic.
Ian Toll’s *Six Frigates*