I want to start some non fiction this time. Some suggestions please
I want to start some non fiction this time. Some suggestions please
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I want to start some non fiction this time. Some suggestions please
Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers.
Thank you, Jessica ?
Genre?
Perhaps something to do with History, culture.
Harmeet Kaur….is historical fiction ok? I have read a few great ones ☺
@Cecilia yes yes…please suggest
The Orphan Train, Before We Were Yours, Sarah’s Key, The Storyteller
@Cecilia Thank you dear ?
Also the Paris Architect for historical fiction!
@Elise Thank you so much
Harmeet Kaur you are quite welcome, love passing on a great read ✌❤&?
@Cecilia All great reads
@Cecilia book connect us in a beautiful way ❤?
@Justine Thank you
@Nettie absolutely loved each one
@Harmeet SO true ???
Sixth Extinction. Highly readable. Won the Pulitzer.
Thank you, Catherine ?
I will 2nd this, great book
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Thank you ?
Excellent choice!
the sun does shine by anthony ray hinton, The second World War series by Winston Churchill, The radium girls by kate moore, playing in the dark by toni morrison, the motion of light in water by samuel R Delaney and I’ll be gone in the dark by michell mcnamara
Churchill’s history books are fascinating and so well written. The views might be unfashionable in some areas, but the insight on leadership and the language are wonderful.
@Rob the series was a little hard to get into in the beginning but once I got used to the writing, wow…what an amazing series! You’re right, his views on leadership and war is extremely insightful.
Prairie Fires – Bio of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Not what I expected, in a great way. Follows the history of settlement of the west and USG policy on homesteading, agriculture and Native Americans. Fascinating.
The historian @Lucy is a fantastic author. I recommend any of her books.
The new Woodward book will be out soon. Not sure I want to read it though.
I think Shaken by Tim Tebow would be very uplifting.
“Robin” by Dave Itzkoff (biography of Robin Williams). Anything by Doris Kearns Goodwin or David McCullough is great – they read like novels.
Grant by Ron Chernow
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
The Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Seabiscuit -Or- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Educated by Tara Westover
Killers of the Flower Moon was so good.
@Krista great recommendations
mere Christianity by c. s. lewis.
rosiland franklin: the dark lady of dna by brenda maddox
Killers of the Flower Moon. Was a Book of the Month pick last year. Very interesting & very readable.
THE LANGUAGE OF KINDNESS: A Nurse’s Story, by Christie Watson. It’s interesting, thoughtful, and very well written. Recommended.
I’m currently reading A History Of God by Karen Armstrong – a history of the development of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Heavy going in some places, but fascinating and well balanced so far (I’m half way in)
The Happiness Project – Gretchen Rubin. will definitely feed your soul! haha☀️
The Bad Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Educated; The Warmth of Other Suns…both great.
EDUCATED by Tara Westover
The Glass Castle Born a Crime
I am Malala is on the Kindle Daily Deals today!
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Anything by Mark Kurlansky or Erik Larson – they make nonfiction fun ?
The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St Clair. Fascinating and beautiful book. I wouldn’t have thought a book about colors would be so interesting!
Being Mortal
I am reading this now and really enjoying it!
My son recommended this book (Educated) to me. I’m anxious to read it.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and A Short History of Nearly Everything
Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Excellent book about a tragic time.
Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond
Devil in the Freezer. The Devil in the White City.
Tuesday’s With Morrie, Mitch Albom. He is a fabulous author!
Uneducated
Hillbilly elegy
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Evicted, The Soul of an Octopus, or Brain on Fire
Brain on fire, When Breath Becomes Air
Being Mortal
The Greater Journey, Americans in Paris by McCullough and The Innovators by Isaacson
World History: How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It by Arthur Herman…The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding by Robert Hughes…Freedom at Midnight by by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins…A Rainbow In The Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa by Dominique Lapierre…
Medical: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder…
Memoir: Paris To The Moon by Adam Gopnik…An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything by Chris Hadfield…Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language by Katherine Russell Rich…
Modern History: The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede…The Accidental President of Brazil by Fernando Henrique Cardoso…The Prince of the Marshes by Rory Stewart…
Other: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester …Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin…Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finley…
Educated by Tara Westover
Educated
Anything by Doris Kerns Goodwin
Sons of Mississippi.
The Warmth of Other Suns is fascinating & life changing. Read likes a novel. Won just about every award a non-fiction can win. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8171378-the-warmth-of-other-suns?ac=1&from_search=true
Thank you, everyone ?
I was looking for one boom but with your valuable suggestions, i believe my TBR list has become too long. Really appreciate!
Killers of the Flower Moon by david grann
Thank you! I will check.
Unbroken
Erik Larsen
I just finished Hillbilly Elegy and am starting Educated…other really good ones:
Killers of The Flower Moon
Beneath A Scarlett Sky
Dust Bowl Girls
Just Mercy
The Short & Tragic Life of Robert Peace
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Educated was great
Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Erik Larson for sure. just read The Radium Girls. excellent!
The Boys in the Boat
Our Moon Has Blood Clots by Rahul Pandita. Pretty good
Interesting title…what’s it about?
The mass exodus of Kashmiri Hindus in 1990 as witnessed by the author.
Wonderful Tonight by the woman who was married to both George Harrison and Eric Clapton.
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Born a Crime
Radium Girls
Yes
The most recent one I finished is The Baby Thief by Barbara Raymond
All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
Currently reading! Love it!
The Wind in My hair, my fight for freedom in Iran & The Fox Hunt , a refugee’s memoir about coming to America (about Yemen)
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When Breath Becomes Air
Killers of the flower moon.
American Fire
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Warmth of Other Suns
My Own Country. And also, The Spirit Catches You and you Fall Down
Evicted or Agent Zigzag are my top recommendations
Columbus be, when Breath becomes air, in cold blood, the executioners song, into the wild, in thin air,
*columbine
Wow–quite a list! But what subjects interest you? There are so many good books in every category, it would help to narrow it down!
I can read different genres but this time i am looking for something with history.