What non-fiction books do you recommend for a man in his early 40s? by clown_without_pity Related: Literaturre from Ireland/U.K. Books where unsettling/new/unexpected customs and tribal groups emerge Classics/contemporary fiction from the German speaking region Books with a ocean setting (beach town, elements of surfing/free diving/ whales would be cool! ) A book that will blow my mind
brusselsproutsfiend on October 14, 2025 1:53 am The Art Thief by Michael Finkel An Immense World by Ed Yong Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Gratitude by Oliver Sacks Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake All About Love by bell hooks The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger How to Speak Whale by Tom Mustill Inciting Joy by Ross Gay Four Lost Cities by Annalee Newitz The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy by Arek Kershenbaum Hunger by Roxane Gay The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Custodians of Wonder by Eliot Stein How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England by Ruth Goodman The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang Language City by Ross Perlin The War for Kindness by Jamil Zaki Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks Underland by Robert MacFarlane Coping Skills by Faith G. Harper Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart We Will Be Jaguars by Nemonte Nenquimo Being Seen by Elsa Sjunneson The Ravenmaster by Christopher Skaife
ebals18 on October 14, 2025 1:53 am If you like a tale of massive hubris and the resulting inevitable disaster at sea, Madhouse at The End of The Earth was great.
hmmwhatsoverhere on October 14, 2025 1:54 am *The dawn of everything* by Davids Graeber and Wengrow *The Jakarta method* by Vincent Bevins *Red star over the third world* by Vijay Prashad
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Nightmare Noir by Alex Azar
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
An Immense World by Ed Yong
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
All About Love by bell hooks
The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger
How to Speak Whale by Tom Mustill
Inciting Joy by Ross Gay
Four Lost Cities by Annalee Newitz
The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy by Arek Kershenbaum
Hunger by Roxane Gay
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Custodians of Wonder by Eliot Stein
How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England by Ruth Goodman
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang
Language City by Ross Perlin
The War for Kindness by Jamil Zaki
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
Underland by Robert MacFarlane
Coping Skills by Faith G. Harper
Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart
We Will Be Jaguars by Nemonte Nenquimo
Being Seen by Elsa Sjunneson
The Ravenmaster by Christopher Skaife
If you like a tale of massive hubris and the resulting inevitable disaster at sea, Madhouse at The End of The Earth was great.
*The dawn of everything* by Davids Graeber and Wengrow
*The Jakarta method* by Vincent Bevins
*Red star over the third world* by Vijay Prashad
The Universe Thru My Eyes