I just recently finished The Indifferent Stars Above, and I really enjoy the memoir style way that the facts are presented to you. I looked up some other threads with recommendations, and it seemed like all of them focused on polar disasters, or shipwrecks in ice. I did already add "Kingdom of Ice" to my reading list, but I am wondering if anyone might have good memoirs, or books in a similar style, that tell a true story.
Another book along the lines of this book that I enjoyed has been "Memoirs of a Geisha"
by karleesii
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I read “Under the Banner of Heaven” after “The Indifferent Stars Above” and thought they had a similar vibe wherein they mixed individual narratives into a greater historical context concerning events that I’ve heard about my whole life but didn’t really know anything about.
Radium Girls is really good! I also liked Into the Wild and if you’re into true crime Green River, Running Red.
Nothing to Envy (it’s about the North Korean famine but told in such an engaging way that it reads like a novel– also like Indifferent it follows the ‘stories’ of several characters)
*Killers of the Flower Moon* and *The Wager*, both by David Grann. *Killers* is about a 1920s plot to murder Osage landowners in Oklahoma, and *The Wager* is about another shipwreck (not polar).
*Hell Put to Shame* by Earl Swift is on my TBR, as well as *Heart of American Darkness* by Robert Parkinson. And check out basically anything by Erik Larson.