Erik Larson is what you want – basically everything he’s ever written but especially Dead Wake.
Also Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air.
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The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
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Papillon
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Island of the Lost by Druett. It’s about two shipwrecks that occurred on the same island in the Pacific at the same time, on different ends the islands so they didn’t know each of each other, and why they had such radically different outcomes in terms of the survival of the crew. Absolutely gripping!
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In Cold Blood
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The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis
The Peregrine by J. A. Baker
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Anything by Rose George, Judy Melinek, Caitlin Doughty, or Mary Roach.
“The Gift of Fear” (a very important read) by Gavin De Becker.
“Five days at Memorial: life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital” by Sherri Fink.
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*Endurance* by Alfred Lansing, if you haven’t read it, is very good.
*Say Nothing* by P R Keefe, about the IRA is also very good. Keefe has a whole host of nonfiction books, from this to the opiod crisis, that you might be interested in.
*News of a Kidnapping* by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Garcia Marquez actually started his career as a journalist, and that’s what he comes back to in his retelling of Pablo Escobar’s 1990 kidnapping of 10 Colombians
*The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes* by Orin Starn
Erik Larson is one of the kings of this kind of book. He’s written about everything from Nazis and serial killers to the Lusitania
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Check out most anything Steven Johnson has written but especially THE GHOST MAP.
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Hell Put to Shame by Earl Swift
Bzbra on
Not in the adventure book category, but a very exciting story that reads like fiction—Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow.
Another good adventure one is Unbroken.
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Seabiscuit
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Anything by Ben Macintyre, especially *Operation Mince Meat*.
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Dreamland by Sam quinones
Empire of pain by Patrick raddin keefe
The Looming Tower by Lawrence wright
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Various_Hope_9038 on
I don’t know if you do podcasts, but if so I would recommend Mother Country Radicals. For books, Trial of the Chicago 7.
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Strongly recommend In the Heart of the Sea. I liked it A LOT more than The Wager. It’s about the true events that inspired Moby Dick.
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Oh! And “the frozen addicts”. Wild story about treating Parkinsons disease similar to The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.
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Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie. It’s a gripping recount of the end of the Romanovs.
And of course anything by Erik Larson.
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And “Witchdocters Apprentice”by Nicole Maxwell if you like lost city of Z.
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River of Doubt by Candice Millard
The Summer of Beer and Whiskey by Edward Achorn
The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
The King of Confidence by Miles Harvey
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The executioners song by Norman Mailer is a solid one that hasn’t been mentioned here yet
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Erik Larson is what you want – basically everything he’s ever written but especially Dead Wake.
Also Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air.
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Papillon
Island of the Lost by Druett. It’s about two shipwrecks that occurred on the same island in the Pacific at the same time, on different ends the islands so they didn’t know each of each other, and why they had such radically different outcomes in terms of the survival of the crew. Absolutely gripping!
In Cold Blood
The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis
The Peregrine by J. A. Baker
Anything by Rose George, Judy Melinek, Caitlin Doughty, or Mary Roach.
“The Gift of Fear” (a very important read) by Gavin De Becker.
“Five days at Memorial: life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital” by Sherri Fink.
*Endurance* by Alfred Lansing, if you haven’t read it, is very good.
*Say Nothing* by P R Keefe, about the IRA is also very good. Keefe has a whole host of nonfiction books, from this to the opiod crisis, that you might be interested in.
*News of a Kidnapping* by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Garcia Marquez actually started his career as a journalist, and that’s what he comes back to in his retelling of Pablo Escobar’s 1990 kidnapping of 10 Colombians
*The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes* by Orin Starn
Erik Larson is one of the kings of this kind of book. He’s written about everything from Nazis and serial killers to the Lusitania
Check out most anything Steven Johnson has written but especially THE GHOST MAP.
Hell Put to Shame by Earl Swift
Not in the adventure book category, but a very exciting story that reads like fiction—Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow.
Another good adventure one is Unbroken.
Seabiscuit
Anything by Ben Macintyre, especially *Operation Mince Meat*.
Dreamland by Sam quinones
Empire of pain by Patrick raddin keefe
The Looming Tower by Lawrence wright
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
I don’t know if you do podcasts, but if so I would recommend Mother Country Radicals. For books, Trial of the Chicago 7.
Strongly recommend In the Heart of the Sea. I liked it A LOT more than The Wager. It’s about the true events that inspired Moby Dick.
Oh! And “the frozen addicts”. Wild story about treating Parkinsons disease similar to The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie. It’s a gripping recount of the end of the Romanovs.
And of course anything by Erik Larson.
And “Witchdocters Apprentice”by Nicole Maxwell if you like lost city of Z.
River of Doubt by Candice Millard
The Summer of Beer and Whiskey by Edward Achorn
The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
The King of Confidence by Miles Harvey
The executioners song by Norman Mailer is a solid one that hasn’t been mentioned here yet
Longitude by Dava Sobel
The Feather Thief
The King of Confidence by Miles Harvey