I’m reading I’m Proud of You by Tim Madigan and it’s pretty great so far. As others have said, Into Thin Air, Unbroken, Into the Wild… also Wild, Picking Cotton, Ice Bound…
“H is for Hawk” by Helen MacDonald is part memoir – part science – part biography. It’s sooo different and incredible About Helen healing after the loss of her father
The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp during World War 11, by Jan Russell Jarboe. Boy..,, what a story!!! This book will be in bookstores soon
Loved some of these, would also add Longitude by Dava Sobell , Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester and my husband has just finished Unbroken and loved it, oooh and Good Women of China by Xinran – amazing book, must stop too many good books once you start thinking 🙂
@Rosa have you also read The Dreams of Ada? It was mentioned as a reference in The Innocent Man, based on a similar case in the same town and also really good.
Columbine by Dave Cullen
The bookseller of Kabul.
Tanya Byron Skeleton Cupboard – my absolute fav read of 2014
The Innocent Man by John Grisham x
No ordinary wedding planner by Naomi Thomas
Into the wild – amazing!
Agree… Into the Wild was amazing!!
Into Thin Air too by the same author.
The Small Woman, the story of Gladys Alyward by Alan Burgess. Read it as a teenager and wanted to be as good as her:)
The immortal Life of Herietta lacks
Yes!!!! Colleen!!! Oh yes!!!!
Complications by Atul Gawande. and I need to read his new book “Being Mortal”
Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl L WuDunn
Waking Up by Sam Harris
Wild Swans
I’m reading ‘The Mitford Girls’ by Mary S Lovell. I can’t put it down:-/
@Jane i loved that book fascinating people and time
Three cups of tea
Unbroken, Wild, Into Thin Air
That reminds me: Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
Burial rites
I have Burial Rites …thanks for the reminder Farnoush.
I’m reading I’m Proud of You by Tim Madigan and it’s pretty great so far. As others have said, Into Thin Air, Unbroken, Into the Wild… also Wild, Picking Cotton, Ice Bound…
Oh man I totally forgot an old one called Maiden Voyage by Tania Aebi. Read it many years ago but really loved it.
More for those here in America — Outrage by Vincent Bugliosi, about the OJ Simpson trial of the century.
Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
I am Alive by Kitty Hart
All Over But the Shoutin’
Team of Rivals. It’s Lincoln in action. That will stick to your ribs
An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
Sounds interesting Andrew
Ice Bound!
The warmth of other suns. Nothing to envy.
Alison.. That book was AMAZING… Wasn’t it?/!!!
“H is for Hawk” by Helen MacDonald is part memoir – part science – part biography. It’s sooo different and incredible About Helen healing after the loss of her father
The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp during World War 11, by Jan Russell Jarboe. Boy..,, what a story!!! This book will be in bookstores soon
Loved some of these, would also add Longitude by Dava Sobell , Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester and my husband has just finished Unbroken and loved it, oooh and Good Women of China by Xinran – amazing book, must stop too many good books once you start thinking 🙂
Nothing to Envy.
Maude…Couldn’t put it down.
Lost in Shangri-LA
The Wisdom of Menopause (unfortunately for me).
the chimp paradox
Switch (How to Change when Change is Hard) by Chip & Dan Heath
The Glass Castle….& Half Broke Horses by the same author
Also loved In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Such awesome recommendations for books!
@Rosa have you also read The Dreams of Ada? It was mentioned as a reference in The Innocent Man, based on a similar case in the same town and also really good.
Thanks @Alisa, I’ll put it on my list! 🙂
Being Mortal