What are some non-fiction favorites you’ve read this year/recently?
What are some non-fiction favorites you’ve read this year/recently?
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What are some non-fiction favorites you’ve read this year/recently?
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. I don’t read much nonfiction, but that one was really, really good.
It was really good, haven’t seen the movie yet though
I haven’t seen the movie yet either, but definitely want too! I read the book because I had seen the movie previews, and thought it looked good.
I just got that book! Heard so much about it!!
Here are my Top-Ten Favorite non-fiction books (not in any particular order):
Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
The Holy or the Broken, by Alan Light
Stiff, by Mary Roach
Jim Henson: The Biography, by Brian Jones
The Men Who Stare at Goats, by Jon Ronson
Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Resa Azlan
To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers, by Philippe Petit
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed, by Patricia Cornwell
I love Mary Roach….Stiff is one of my favorite books
The Nature Fix by Florence Williams, The Art of Waiting by Belle Boggs, The Name Therapist by Duana Taha, and Hunger by Roxane Gay. (I’ve read a lot of non-fiction this year, but these are the best.)
Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russel Means. By Russell Means and Marvin J Wolf
Night (Book 1) By Elie Wiesel
Please Stop Laughing at Me… One Woman’s Inspirational Story By Jodee Blanco
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers By Mary Roach
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
Another Mary Roach fan 😀
Night is a great one…love Elie Wiesel’s writing!!! I recently bought A Mad Desire to Dance, but haven’t read it yet.
Grant by Ron Chernow is really good!
Not this year (sorry), last year I read ‘Giants: The Dwarfs of Auschwitz by Yehuda Koren & Eilat Negev, interesting read?
Hannah Hart’s autobiography is amazing. I highly recommend it. Same with Anna Kendricks.
Smoke gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
Definitely on my TBR list!
I read Behind the Beautiful Forevers during a long wait at the Delhi Airport…beautiful, unsettling and haunting. I finished it and left it for someone else to enjoy, but I’m sure I’ll want to revisit it someday.
Do biographies and essays of people count? because then I would choose Marcus Aurelius – Meditations and Tacitus – Germania.
yes of course 🙂
Read “An Empire of Wealth” by J.S. Gordon a study of economic history of the U.S. starting with Amer. Rev. to current day. Very, very good
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I guess, this year it would be I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.
Haven’t read much non fiction this year, but I have bought some!!
Same with me
Nonfiction I’ve read this year:
– In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
– Positive Parenting by Rebecca Eanes
– Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
– Real American: A Memoir by Julie Lythcott-Haims
– A Beautiful, Terrible Thing by Jen Waite
– A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
– The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
– MacArthur’s Spies by Peter Eisner
– The Lost City of Z by David Grann
– Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung by Min Kym
– The Power of Meaning by Emily Esfahani Smith
In Cold Blood ….a good one!
Raz Cue – The Days of Guns, & Raz’s
This books deals with the early days of Guns N’ Roses
I love GNR. I spent hours just listening to Appetite for Destruction over and over
Me too. I love all their albums. I went to a concert this year. Brilliant band
Agreed!!
I also like the different bands and muscians related to GN’R. L.A. Guns, Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds, Loaded, Velvet Revolver, Buckethead, Nine Inch Nails, Lusk 🙂
I’m only familiar with Velvet Revolver…pretty good
You might wanna check out L.A. Guns. That’s the band of original GN’R guitarist Tracii Guns
it’s in the same vein as early GNR
I will!
cool
Sapiens and Homo Deus
I re-read “The Hot Zone” by Richard Preston, about the Ebola virus and when it came out. SCARY!