Suggest a nonfiction book for a person who usually doesn’t like nonfiction.
I’m a big fiction reader and trying to branch out to nonfiction. My favorite fiction genres are usually horrors, thrillers, fantasy and weird lit fic if that helps a bit! ✍🏼👀
*The French Connection* takes you through a lot of the brass tacks of the police work uncovering a heroine smuggling ring.
*Last Chance to See* is a wonderful read following two authors around the world trying to locate critically endangered species. I recommend it for everyone.
Edit: I also just recalled *Deep Undercover*, an account of the KGB spy, Jack Barsky‘s activities spying in the U.S.
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Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen
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Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat. A Canadian naturalist studies wolves in the wilderness.
How to fight presidents by Daniel O’Brien. A collection of interesting facts about past US presidents.
Neona65 on
I really enjoyed Diamond Doris by Doris Payne
She was a very successful jewel thief in the 1960s. And she was black.
The book is her memoir talking about how she did it.
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Nuclear War – A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen is a non-fiction page turner that will appeal to anyone who likes sci fi – apocalypse type stuff. Truly terrifying – because it is so very real
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Catch Me If You Can was riveting. Movie was good too but I read the book first.
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Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
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Dance Macabre by Stephen King.
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Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Araz728 on
*Midnight in Chernobyl*
If you didn’t know it all really happened, you would think the author had an amazing imagination.
Seriously though, the only other book that captivated me with that kind of tense anticipation was *A Storm of Swords*
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie Rubenhold
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Cold a Long Time, a simple title but very intriguing, unforgettable, story. A young Canadian man who once played in the NHL, goes missing in Austria when he went skiing one day. There’s a cover-up but his family, ordinary people, go to extraordinary lengths, especially his mother, to find him and find the truth which took nearly two decades. It’s shocking, heartbreaking, there’s betrayal, and deception too. Then finally finding their son and learning the truth of his horrific demise and where he was all along
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The Great Halifax Explosion by John Bacon is a nailbiter extraordinaire. The book captures everything that sucks about humans and everything that is glorious about human beings and it’s one gasp after another.
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*The French Connection* takes you through a lot of the brass tacks of the police work uncovering a heroine smuggling ring.
*Last Chance to See* is a wonderful read following two authors around the world trying to locate critically endangered species. I recommend it for everyone.
Edit: I also just recalled *Deep Undercover*, an account of the KGB spy, Jack Barsky‘s activities spying in the U.S.
Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat. A Canadian naturalist studies wolves in the wilderness.
How to fight presidents by Daniel O’Brien. A collection of interesting facts about past US presidents.
I really enjoyed Diamond Doris by Doris Payne
She was a very successful jewel thief in the 1960s. And she was black.
The book is her memoir talking about how she did it.
Nuclear War – A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen is a non-fiction page turner that will appeal to anyone who likes sci fi – apocalypse type stuff. Truly terrifying – because it is so very real
Catch Me If You Can was riveting. Movie was good too but I read the book first.
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
Dance Macabre by Stephen King.
Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
*Midnight in Chernobyl*
If you didn’t know it all really happened, you would think the author had an amazing imagination.
Seriously though, the only other book that captivated me with that kind of tense anticipation was *A Storm of Swords*
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie Rubenhold
Cold a Long Time, a simple title but very intriguing, unforgettable, story. A young Canadian man who once played in the NHL, goes missing in Austria when he went skiing one day. There’s a cover-up but his family, ordinary people, go to extraordinary lengths, especially his mother, to find him and find the truth which took nearly two decades. It’s shocking, heartbreaking, there’s betrayal, and deception too. Then finally finding their son and learning the truth of his horrific demise and where he was all along
The Great Halifax Explosion by John Bacon is a nailbiter extraordinaire. The book captures everything that sucks about humans and everything that is glorious about human beings and it’s one gasp after another.
The Maid Of Amsterdam
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGWW6RRD?ref_=pe_93986420_774942710
Rites of Spring about start of WW1
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes
Freakinomics
Shadow divers
Check out Mary Roach’s books. ‘Stiff’ is fascinating.
The Boys in the Boat.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. It’s nonfiction but reads like fiction.
The Radium Girls
The Hot Zone