My FIL has expressed that he wants to pick up reading in his retirement.
Hes a sports guy and read Brady’s biography, and also read the chicken soup series back in the day for some reason.
Hes also outdoorsy (we have all the Nick Offerman books).
So something short and accessible.
by RIHistoryGuy
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Into Thin Air
Craig Childs for the outdoorsy memoir style books.
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
How about dead bodies?
MARY ROACH –
“Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers”
CAITLIN DOUGHTY –
“ Will my cat eat my eyeballs? : big questions from tiny mortals about death”
“ From here to eternity : traveling the world to find the good death”
“ Smoke gets in your eyes : and other lessons from the crematory”
JUDY MELINEK –
“ Working stiff : two years, 262 bodies, and the making of a medical examiner”
Anything by David McCullough
Seabiscuit
Boys in the Boat
Author Harlan Coben
Dark Matter and Recursion (Blake Crouch)
Edit: apologies these are fiction
The wager. About an old ship wreck. Really anything about navy’s or sailing will do it for an old guy