Recommendations in the non-fiction history and science genres, please.
Recommendations in the non-fiction history and science genres, please.
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Recommendations in the non-fiction history and science genres, please.
Have you read Blitzed by Norman Ohler? I’m currently reading it. A history book, published by Penguin, about drugs in Nazi Germany. Quite an eye-opener!
Science genre:
Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.
Power to the Patient by Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
It’s an old book but very good. Read it many years ago.
Finished reading this recently. History meets science. 🙂 Very well written.
Yes. It reads more like an informal piece, not so much like a storybook.
I enjoyed reading it
Stuffocation, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, and Working Stiff. All non-fiction I really enjoyed reading.
Science: Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals’ Inner Lives First Trade Paper Edition Edition
by Karen Shanor (Author), Jagmeet Kanwal.
History: The Secret Hunters by Ranulph Fiennes. Incredible book.
Perelandra
Try reading anything by Phillipa Gregory. It’s fiction meets non-fiction?
Read about the Mitford family
Hidden Figures
SPQR by Mary Beard ?
I read Walter Issacson’s biography of Einstein at the beginning of the summer, I highly recommend it.
A Very Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
Also, Bryson’s At Home
Down Under is my favourite. I love his take on my country.
Bloody Crimes by James Swanson.. Don’t let the title fool you, it was excellent -about the train ride back to Illinois after the Lincoln assassination…SO interesting how each stop was an event by the towns and how they kept fixing up the body to be viewed for the LONG ride back.
Also ‘manhunt’ by the same author. The hunt for John Wilkes Booth complete with his escape using a one eyed horse and the people he met on the way