What is the last non-fiction title you recommended to someone else?
What is the last non-fiction title you recommended to someone else?
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What is the last non-fiction title you recommended to someone else?
The Great War for Civilization by Robert Fisk.
Looked up the summary. Sounds interesting.
River of Doubt by Candice Millard ( may be wrong on the last name)
Great book I’ve read it 3 times
I’ve read it once but really enjoyed it. May have to read again.
The Hidden Life Of Trees by Peter Wohlleben https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28256439-the-hidden-life-of-trees
Sounds interesting!
If you have a passion for trees, I highly recommend this book. The complexities of a tree’s life and its ability to communicate is incredible.
Educated
I just bought the audiobook.
I learned so much: “Let There Be Water, Israel’s Solution For A Water-Starved World” by Seth M. Siegel
The last one I recommended is an oldie by John Robbins Diet for a new America
Not My Child
This was so fascinating and written in a way that meant I read it cover to cover!
Tattooist of Auschwitz
Educated, by Tara Westover
Just bought it.
For non-fiction I would recommend anything by Thomas Sowell. Learned so much.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Operation-Lighthouse-Reflections-Devastating-Coercive/dp/1983251569/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536531286&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=operation+lighthouse&dpPl=1&dpID=519lyNfxWqL
I recommended The Feather Thief by Kirk Johnson
I love you and I’m leaving you anyway by Tracy McMillan
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Frazzled by Ruby Wax
I think I need this one!
This is a brilliant book! X
The World Without Us, Alan Weisman.
Lawrence in Arabia
Radium girls or ill be gone in the dark!!
I cried so much for the Radium Girls.
Never anyone but you
Educated by Tara Westover.
Bought it!
Yes that is a great one.
Helter skelter
The imposter – so brilliant, reads like a thriller
Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead to someone who wanted to know more about the Lindbergh kidnapping.
“Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee”
The Witness Wore Red
Girl, Wash Your Face
I hope all of you don’t think too badly of me, but I am listening to an audio book, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer. (My husband rolled his eyes!) I think she is hilarious, and it makes me laugh really hard! Recommended to my adult daughter. She likes her humor too.
The Devil and the White City
ABY
To love and to kill from m William phelps. True crime. Loved it.
Six Silent Men
The Choice by Edith Eva Eger
Hunger – Roxanne Gay (About a lady dealing with her morbid obesity)
Unbearable lightness – Portia De Rossi (Ellens wife on her eating disorder)
The audio books are good
Playing Dead: a Journey through
the World of Death Fraud, by Elizabeth Greenwood
On the House: the Bizarre Killing of Michael Malloy, by Simon Read
The Mother-in-Law Cure by Katherine Wilson.
River of Doubt
Madeleine Black memoir Unbroken
Murder in Mississippi by John Safran (true crime) and 1-2-3 Magic (parenting)
Darrell Hammond “God If You’re Not Up There, I’m F*cked.” His memoir and I had no idea who he was (he played Bill Clinton a lot on SNL apparently) and I have always kinda rolled my eyes at the whole addiction and recovery story (I’m an asshole I know) but his? His story is just so…I don’t know. It’s just amazing and I think everyone should read it.
A Million Little Pieces
Educated
“The Psychopath Test” by Jon Ronson
He’s funny ?
His TED talk is great!
Istanbul and Helen of Troy by Bettany Hughes and SPQR by Mary Beard
Working Stiff
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
For the love of the land: Mildred Kanipe by Lois Eagleton
Angela’s Ashes
John Tyler, Accidental President by Edward P. Crapool
Everything Trump Touches, Dies.
Orange is the New Black
The Woman who Smashed Code & The Miracle of Dunkirk. So may great books.
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
Shoe Dog
Educated
I’m with the band by Pamela des barres
The ALCHEMY OF REIKI
Also Hillbilly Elegy
The Untethered Soul
Loved this book.
Me too Sue. I’ve given it as a gift countless times.
Untethered Soul for me as well ???
The immortal life of Henrietta lacks.
Great book!
And the Sea Will Tell
“Black Dahlia Avenger” by Steve Hodel
I haven’t recommended this yet, but I am going to for many people. Anyone who had kids or works with kids should read this book.
What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
YOU ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU THINK
http://www.youaremorepowerful.com/
SALT: A World History
Nickel and dimed: on not getting by in America
I almost forgot about you
Terry McMillan
Inseparable
Shoe Dog
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Innocent Man by John Grisham
The Soul of an Octopus
The Radium Girls
This is in my tbr pile ☺
@Erika. It was so interesting. Enjoy.
Homo Deus
I’ve just bought this.
@Carol really thought provoking. Not a bnook that I read quickly, rather one that I pick up and then need to take time to mull over what I have read, a great book
It’s not a book I would normally read but I saw the second book, so thought I would get the first one too.
“The Happiness Trap” by Russ Harris.
When breath becomes air!Truly amazing and so sad at the same time!
This is going to hurt: secret diaries of a junior doctor by Adam Kay
I am currently reading him,but not sure…try my suggestion,also written by doctor but so much better then AK’s book!
@Suzy I’ve read when breath becomes air but didn’t really enjoy it. I think I prefer the descriptions of procedures and information on the NHS that was in Adam Kay’s book
Ah ok for me it’s too gorey as a female!And yes the NHS is truly under appreciated but nothing new there!My mum is also a nurse in the orthopedics so I know what’s it like
On Page 193 Maria Casey not long left…but hell does it put you off when u planning a baby!!!
@Suzy oh god yeah I would not recommend this to pregnant people ???
My Beloved World
Sounds Out Of Silence, the biography of Alexander Graham Bell. A fascinating story about one of my husband’s distant relatives.
Adam Kay – this is going to hurt
Nando Parrado’s “Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home”
Actually the very last one I recommend was this one.
I finished reading all of Virginia Woolf dairies. Loved everyone of them.
A Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
Educated
Radium Girls
All That Remains – Sue Black
Husband Hunters about Americans who married into the British aristocracy.
Hmmm like Megan Markle
This sounds interesting x
Nancy Astor, our first female member of Parliament.
Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann
My Adventures with God (don’t let the title scare you away- not really a book about religion, so much as a collection of stories from Stephen Tobolowsky’s life.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/books/tell-us-5-things-about-your-book-stephen-tobolowskys-my-adventures-with-god.html
Abigail Adams biography, I was so suprised, she was amazing?
The Compassionate Mind… professor Paul Gilbert. Bought several people a copy ..
The Warmth Of Other Suns, The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson. I wish every high school student was required to read and report on this great book.
The mindful way out of depression
Born Survivors by Wendy Holden
Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
‘Black Diamonds’ or ‘The Secret Room’ both by Catherine Bailey
This is going to hurt by Adam Kay xxx
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nicky Flynn
Ok I’m reading this based on the title alone
@Deanna hope you are enjoying it x
Not without my daughter. A good life.
Yes that was a good read x