I consider myself more a follower than a believer, but they do go hand in hand. The Psalms are wonderfully written. Lots of excellent song material, there
Loose Change by Sarah Davidson, the Coco Chanel No 5 biography (no really it is amazing!), Eating on the Wild Side, the Science of Breath, The Yoga of Eating, Bhagavad Gita……
@Carol (Mistry) I read it quite awhile ago but it has always stuck with me. A lengthy book…India. There are SO many books I’ve loved…mostly quirky however?
Agree ! Recently visited the strikingly beautiful monument in Washington , D.C., which is dedicated to the nurses of WWll . More should be written about these brave and strong women ! Does anyone have other titles they could recommend ? Thank you !
@Veronica I don’t know of other books about nurses’ role in war, but Home Front by Kristin Hannah is a great novel about women in service, specifically the reserve forces.
My pleasure. I found the physical format of “Roses” difficult to read (margin notations, etc.), but once I was able to get past that, the information was very interesting. Jacqueline Winspear also said it was a tremendous source of information for her while writing the Maisie Dobbs series. (And I’m glad she acknowledged that because there was at least one page in one of her books that was almost directly lifted from “Roses.”)
@Diana , I never thought of the Maisie Dobbs series as being anything but fictional . What did I miss ? Was/is there actually a real Maisie Dobbs ? Loved the books !
The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks, When Breathe Becomes Air, Long Walk To Freedom, The Girls Who Went Away, Zeitoun, One Drop, Hounds on His Trail , Triangle: The Fire That Changed America, etc.etc .
Michelle , if you loved THE GLASS CASTLE, you might enjoy HALF BROKE HORSES , also written by Jeanette Walls . It is an amazing book about her remarkable maternal grandmother and also offers many insights into her mother’s life, as well !
Recently? “Code Girls” by Liza Mundy. Well-researched and very well-written. It’s about the female code-breakers who worked in Arlington, Virginia, during WW2.
Too many to name.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
I hated this book…I had to read it for school
It’s incredibly well researched and written.
It was hard to read because I also had write a new question pack for it
Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson.
Great book! Larson is a wonderful writer with an amazing ability to bring the reader into the center of his subject.
One of my favorite authors !
Rez Road Follies by Jim Northrup is a veryyyyy close second.
Toss up between Hidden Figures and Radium Girls. The Black Count is a close runner up.
Dead Wake by Erik Larson.
On Writing by Stephen King
Heart of the Sea , but I can’t for the life of me remember who wrote it .
Nathaniel Philbrick ?
Nathaniel Philbrick ??
I think that was it .I loved that book and now want to hunt down Ron Howard for butchering in that abomination of a movie.lol
Wild
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek
Honestly, for me it’s the Bible. A lot of neat history, proven even by those who don’t agree with some of what the Bible says.
I’m not a believer anymore but I still find the psalms beautiful and comforting
I consider myself more a follower than a believer, but they do go hand in hand. The Psalms are wonderfully written. Lots of excellent song material, there
People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
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Harry Potter series.. prove it isn’t real
The Sixth Extinction
Loose Change by Sarah Davidson, the Coco Chanel No 5 biography (no really it is amazing!), Eating on the Wild Side, the Science of Breath, The Yoga of Eating, Bhagavad Gita……
This is Your Brain on Music, The Psychology of Music…..
Free: the future of a radical price by Chris Anderson
In defense of food by Michael Pollan
These were amazing
Origin of Species
I must read this
The glass castle
Finding Fish
Beyond the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Have you read A Fine Balance ( Mistry)? I enjoyed it even more….if you can imagine…..?
@Janie, I haven’t, but I will now! Thank you for the recommendation! ??
Any of Sarah Vowel’s books
Guns, Germs and Steel
The Warmth of Other Sons *****
The Worst Hard Time
The psychopath test by John Ronson
The Boys in the Boat
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
Holy blood
Holy Grail
Helen Keller
Dear Mom, a Snipers Vietnam by Joseph T Ward… an excellent insight into a violent period of history that many would now like to pretend didn’t happen.
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick.
Isaac’s Storm, The Devil in the White City, and Dead Wake, all by Erik Larson. Larson’s other books are great too, but those are my favorites.
Strange Facts about the Bible was really interesting, by Webb Garrison.
The Heroin Diaries was harrowing but interesting.
And The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, by Marilyn Manson
Last, but not least, Dog Sense by John Bradshaw. Every dog owner should read it.
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Making of the English Working Class by EP thompson.
Life After Death by Damien Echols
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
God is not great
I’m intrigued, tell me more..
Freakonomics
Fish! A proven way to boost morale and improve results! ?
Last child in the woods
Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, Son
A Fine Balance
I’ll check it out!
hmm author? Several books w this title.
@Carol (Mistry) I read it quite awhile ago but it has always stuck with me. A lengthy book…India. There are SO many books I’ve loved…mostly quirky however?
@Janie that’s the one I thought but when I read about it I thought it was fiction…did put on my list (which is so out of control!).
I liked it better than Beyond the Beautiful Forevers…if you happen to have read it??
It is fiction
Oops!
Sometimes it’s hard to tell.
@Janie but good id good, right? I’ll check it out.
When Breath Becomes Air
velocity
Medhead by James Patterson
Unbroken
Anything by Winston Churchill!
Unbroken and We Band of Angels about the nurses who were held at Bataan during WWll and took care of the soldiers there.
Loved both ! ❣️?
Loved “We Band of Angels”. The role of nurses in war is not often acknowledged.
Agree ! Recently visited the strikingly beautiful monument in Washington , D.C., which is dedicated to the nurses of WWll . More should be written about these brave and strong women ! Does anyone have other
titles they could recommend ? Thank you !
@Veronica I don’t know of other books about nurses’ role in war, but Home Front by Kristin Hannah is a great novel about women in service, specifically the reserve forces.
The Roses of No Man’s Land by Lyn MacDonald. British nurses in WW1.
Thanks so much ! I am ordering them right now from my library !! ??
@Diana Thanks!
My pleasure. I found the physical format of “Roses” difficult to read (margin notations, etc.), but once I was able to get past that, the information was very interesting. Jacqueline Winspear also said it was a tremendous source of information for her while writing the Maisie Dobbs series. (And I’m glad she acknowledged that because there was at least one page in one of her books that was almost directly lifted from “Roses.”)
@Diana , I never thought of the Maisie Dobbs series as being
anything but fictional . What did I miss ? Was/is there actually a real Maisie Dobbs ? Loved the books !
No, no, but Winspear derived a lot of her factual details about Maisie’s nursing service in WW1 (a fundamental part of her background) from this book.
Too many to pick one over another as “best,” but one that has stayed with me for decades is Clarissa Pinkola Estes’s “Women Who Run With the Wolves.”
The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks, When Breathe Becomes Air, Long Walk To Freedom, The Girls Who Went Away, Zeitoun, One Drop, Hounds on His Trail , Triangle: The Fire That Changed America, etc.etc .
Wow, totally agree on Henrietta Lacks, Zeitoun, and Triangle!
Either “Rules to Die By” or “Planning to Die”–I know the author, too!
Wild, by Cheryl Strayed. <3 ???
Glass Castle
Michelle , if you loved THE GLASS CASTLE, you might enjoy HALF BROKE HORSES , also written by Jeanette Walls . It is an amazing book about her remarkable maternal grandmother and also offers many insights into her mother’s life, as well !
Operation Julie ( Most of you will need to search this as book is about area I live in )
It’s already on my TBR. Not got around to it yet… one day. ?
Bertie by Jane Ridley
A Girl Named Zippy is so good!
@Janie…have you read Zippy? I think you’d like it.
Midnight in the garden of good and evil by John Berendt.
The Education of a Wandering Man, by Louis L’Amour.
The Boys in the Boat
Empire of the Summer Moon was just one of several.
N/F is my favorite genre.
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Communist Manifesto tbh
Built of Books How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde by Thomas Wright
Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
by Stephen Jay Gould
Walden
That’s all I read…
I just read Wintersong though and that was pretty good.
The Planets by Dava Sobel.
Recently? “Code Girls” by Liza Mundy. Well-researched and very well-written. It’s about the female code-breakers who worked in Arlington, Virginia, during WW2.
Out of Africa, Agatha Christie ‘s autobiography
Wasnt that Isak Dineson?
Yes..I meant I liked both out of Africa and christie’s autobiography?…
Oh, sorry
No no I wasn’t clear enough?..
Stephen King’s “On Writing”, helps me with my own creative writing endeavors
The Fitzgerald’s and the Kennedys, Doris Kearns Goodwin
When Breath becomes Air, The Glass Castle
On Being Mortal