Left to tell by Immaculée Ilibagiza tells her story of survival through the Rwandan Holocaust in 1994
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It’s an unflinching look at the U.S. Army’s decades long campaign against the Comanches. It goes into the Comanche culture & way of life while also detailing massacres committed by both the Comanches AND the U.S. Army.
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The Wager by David Grann. Boat disappears in the 1700s traveling from England to South America. Years later, members of the crew find their way back to England and tell everyone what happened…… only for a 2 batch of the crew to show up years after that and tell a completely different tale.
It reads like a thriller and I had to constantly remind myself that all this actually happened
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Historical event? “Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital” by Sheri Fink.
Some other great nonfiction authors are – Rose George, Mary Roach, Caitlin Doughty, Judy Melinek, and Gavin de Becker.
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The Lost City of Z.
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Maid by Stephanie Land
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
In general I think a good genre to look into is “narrative nonfiction”
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The Wager
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Rubicon – Tom Hollander
The Anarchy – William Dalrymple
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Seabiscuit. Compelling characters, compelling story, absorbing look at another era
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Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
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Left to Tell
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Madhouse at the end of the earth by julian sancton
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Left to tell by Immaculée Ilibagiza tells her story of survival through the Rwandan Holocaust in 1994
“Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History” by S.C. Gwynne.
It’s an unflinching look at the U.S. Army’s decades long campaign against the Comanches. It goes into the Comanche culture & way of life while also detailing massacres committed by both the Comanches AND the U.S. Army.
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe. About the troubles. Fantastic.
Dead Wake by Erik Larson – tells the story of the sinking of the Lusitania
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer- tells the story of the ’96 Everest Disaster
The Wager by David Grann. Boat disappears in the 1700s traveling from England to South America. Years later, members of the crew find their way back to England and tell everyone what happened…… only for a 2 batch of the crew to show up years after that and tell a completely different tale.
It reads like a thriller and I had to constantly remind myself that all this actually happened
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Art Thief
The Indifferent Stars Above
*Notes from the Hyena’s Belly* by Nega Mezlekia
The Looming Tower
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Anything Krakuer
Barbarians at the gate
Historical event? “Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital” by Sheri Fink.
Some other great nonfiction authors are – Rose George, Mary Roach, Caitlin Doughty, Judy Melinek, and Gavin de Becker.
Anne Franks Diary
The Lost City of Z.
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Executioner’s Song
Maid by Stephanie Land
Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
In general I think a good genre to look into is “narrative nonfiction”
The Wager
Rubicon – Tom Hollander
The Anarchy – William Dalrymple
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding, Robert Hughes
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Labyrinth, by Taylor Branch and Eugene Propper
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo
Seabiscuit. Compelling characters, compelling story, absorbing look at another era
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Running the Rift
I Will Always Write Back
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Lost Boys of Sudan
Nine Hills to Nambonkaha
Left to Tell
Madhouse at the end of the earth by julian sancton