Non-Fiction Book Recommendations

[secretlyevil]

Trying to add to our sticky recommendation thread. Post you non-fiction recommendations here!

[secretlyevil]

I'm not much of a non-fiction reader. The thre that I have read and enjoyed were:

The Tender Bar: www.goodreads.com/book/show/144977.The_Tender_Bar?from_search=true

A Piece of Cake: www.goodreads.com/book/show/196764.A_Piece_of_Cake

The Cloud Garden: www.goodreads.com/book/show/135593.The_Cloud_Garden

These are all memoirs/autobiographies and since there's been some controversy since Oprah and Million Little Pieces, I guess take the "non-fiction" category for these loosely.

[itsme]

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Hardcover
www.goodreads.com/book/show/8664353-unbroken

No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden www.goodreads.com/book/show/15814872-no-easy-day

[charlatti]

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence by Gerald Blaine
An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude by Ann Vanderhoof
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear by Seth Mnookin
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Dog Years by Mark Doty
Glass, Paper, Beans: Revolutions on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things by Leah Hager Cohen

[aurora]

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson - how the universe got to where it is today in layman's terms

And...now I am drawing a blank.

[christy082]

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

[mrspez07]

I was thinking about this last night! here are some of my recent favorites:

The Oxford Project by Peter Feldstein

Post Secret: extraordinary secrets from ordinary lives by frank warren

The Unlikely Diciple: a Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University by Kevin Roose

Some Girls: my Life in a harem by Jillian Lauren

MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for A new best friend

Undress me in the Temple of Heaven

Garlic and Sapphires: the secret life of a critic

Garbage land: on the secret trail of trash

Elizabeth the Queen: Life of a Modern Monarch (very thorough and detailed but well written)

[naldridge]

Born Round: An Autobiography of a fulltime eater (Frank Bruni)

[jillboston]

In the Garden of Beasts (about the American ambassador (and his family) in preWW2 Germany)
Loving Frank (about Frank Lloyd Wright's affair) (woops - fiction-  but based on a true story)

[Michelle]

The girl with seven names by Hyeonseo Lee. A North Korean defector’s Story.

[MrsAxilla]

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor was fantastic.

[travella]

Jan 14, 2019 23:57:27 GMT -5 Michelle said:

The girl with seven names by Hyeonseo Lee. A North Korean defector’s Story.

I added this to my list of must reads.

[monkeyfeet]

Columbine by Dave Cullen

[tcu2003]

Some of these are ones I read awhile ago, and some more recent, but all were ones I enjoyed.

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine K Albright

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Open by Andre Agassi

Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World by Sharon Waxman

[lolo1009]

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

JUST MERCY

EVICTED

SEVEN FALLEN FEATHERS