I recently realized my favorite fiction is story driven nonfiction. Not biographies, but books about humans mixed with near-journalistic exploration into history and culture.
Examples:
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance
Prince Among Slaves
Infidel: My Life
Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance
I'd especially love history books that have a narrative or human focus. I loved reading 1491 back in the day.
I'm about to be on winter break and I want to fill my brain with reading! Thank you in advance for your recommendations.
by beswin
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Great ones I’ve read:
The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill: Abortion, Death, and Concealment in Victorian New England by Marcia Biederman
The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts
Red Famine by Timothy Snyder
East West Street by Philippe Sands
The anarchy by dalrymple