What are some non fiction page turners that you have read?
What are some non fiction page turners that you have read?
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What are some non fiction page turners that you have read?
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch albom
Into thin air by Jon Krakauer. I think I spelled that right. One of the greatest adventure books of our generation.
Wow that looks really good. Just added it to my thriftbook cart.
One if my all time favorite books
Let me know how you like it. It would make me feel good if you did. There’s Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose. Nf is my favorite genre.
Chuck Yeager’s Autobiography.
White bees. It was funny and I couldn’t put it down
1776.. David McCullough, also his John Adams…
I have that,haven’t read it yet.
Argo by Antonio Mendez. I couldn’t put it down.
I’m a foodie, and one of my fave non-fiction books is Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. It’s about the importance of eating locally grown food, and there were a lot of things in it I didn’t know before.
Guns,Germs and Steel..
Ww2 book?
Written by Jared Diamond…over a million copies sold..about the found,ation for understanding human history..13,r000yr ride..origins of em p ires,religion,writing,crops,and guns..i have read it twice
My kind of book. I love to dig into the reasons why we do the things we do.
Loved Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick. Tough As They Come by Travis Mills. Can’t remember the author, but Kate Remembered was lovely too, about Katherine Hepburn. Just a few off the top of my head. I’ve been on a non fiction trend lately. ?
When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi
The Last Lecture by Randy Pauch, When Breath Becomes Air, any Ruth Reichel(foodie) book, Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, to name a few favorites!
Oooh!
The innocent man by john grisham… my current read… gripping
Midas Touch
By Robert Kiyosaki and Donald Trump
What genre?
I like a variety such as history, politics, books about natural disasters, biographies, stories about a persons journey.
Hot Zone is amazing. It’s about Ebola.
Memoirs of a Geisha is great too
Ellie’s Story. So incredibly sad but a good read at the same time.
Also Call the Midwife was good too
Aww I would love to read this.
Anything by David McCullough
The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer by Phillip Carlo.
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Oh, and the Call the Midwife books (there’s 3 of them)
Oh! I didn’t know that! I know it’s on tv but I’m not a fan of commercial tv! (Too many ads!) Are the books good???
Yes, I love them! Also, the tv show is on PBS, so no commercials there or I usually just watch it on Netflix anyway, and I do recommend the show also
Digital fortress
The underground girls of Kabul
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. It was released not long before Jobs died and it gives a really complete and, to me at least, absorbing picture of his life.
I literally just ordered that book and received it last week. I can’t wait to read it. I actually really like that author. Einstein: life and universe was really good too by him.
Andersonville by Kantor, The Girls of Atomic City by Kieran, One Summer by Bryson, When Breath Becomes Air by Kalanithi, Hillbilly Elegy by Vance, Maeve Binchy by Dudgeon, and In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown by Gary.
Read Andersonville one summer at my grandparents. Right after reading Gone With the Wind. Yow!
Sybil
A dog called Hope
In Broad Daylight. It is a true crime novel, but well worth it
And the Band Played On (about the AIDS epidemic). Word by Word, the Secret Life of Dictionaries. This is a very recent book and it’s a LOT of fun, as well as really interesting.
When Rabbit howls – Truddi Chase. Dissociation identity disorder.
I was wondering where the nonfiction readers were a! 😉 I just finished Walter Issacson’s biography of Albert Einstein. I highly recommend it.
I have it, just haven’t read it yet.
Left to Tell. My father, maker of the trees.
Stiff, the curious life of human cadavers
Into the Wild
Finding me by michelle knight
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi and Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer. It was hilarious with a few serious moments thrown in
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai.
I’ve just finished Unmasked by Turia Pitt. She was burnt on 65% of her body after getting caught in a fire while running an ultramarathon. She’s amazing and I couldn’t put the book down!
Cosmos by carl sagan
Into The Wild
Agreed! That was a fascinating read!
Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan!
The letters of JFK
Open by Andre Agassi
Monster – the story about Josef Frits Gerald who puts his daughter in an underground prison
When Breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Tiger, Tiger by Margaux Fargaso
The Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick, When Breath becomes Air, Paul Kalanthi, All Souls. Michael Patrick MacDonald.
Snowman the $80 horse is good.
I just picked that one up at Goodwill for .50! I’m a horse fanatic anyway 🙂
I really enjoyed it
Erik Larson…author
The Planets by Dava Sobel.
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
All Graham Hancock books
Blood and Thunder
The God Deluson
Cosmos
Forgotten Voices of Auschwitz
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
It was hard to put down! I have Demon in the Freezer, but haven’t read it yet. (Same author) Have you read it?
Yes, I did. Not as good. If you can find The Wild Trees by him that was much better.
Thanks, I’ll look.
Not to be a pest, but what are some of your other favorite non-fictions?
Careless whispers
Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Hard to read but excellent!
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi … Night by Elie Weisel … Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Into the Wild
Freakonomics; The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better, both by Charles Duhigg.
January First by Michael Schofield
The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan.
Anything by Cathy Glass
Child Of Revolution
The Devils Plan by @Phillip, Anything by @Faith
American Sniper or Lone Survivor if you like military, or Fire on the Horizon (about the Gulf oil disaster).
Maci Bookouts biography
Also Stephanie Pratts
In order to Live by Yeonmi Park, Not Forgotten by Kenneth Bae, Angels to Help You by Lester Sumrall
Nothing
Into the Wild
Into thin Air.
Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
“Between Man and Beast”.
Waiting to be Heard by Amanda Knox,Mad as Hell,about the making of Network,Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail,and The Greater Generation,to name a few.
Leah Remini’s “Troublemaker”
The glass castle. It’s sooo good.
Loved it!
The missing 411 books by David Paulides. Some of the stories are incredibly sad a very creepy read as well, makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Makes you think twice about venturing out into the woods again.
Barbara Tuchman’s, Erik Larson’s, and Bill Bryson’s books
Bill Bryson is great!
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, Something in the Blood: About Bram Stoker by David J. Skal. Those are the 3 that have really stuck out for me in the past few months
Just saw you also recommended “Salt”..such a great book…
“Salt: A World History”, “A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House”, “Foul: The Connie Hawkins Story”, “Ball Four”, “A History of the World in Six Glasses”, “A History of English”, “The Book of Perfume”…
The glass castle
Kohinoor