Please suggest me your favorite, or any, historical non-fiction books! I have been down a whole this year with mainly polar, shipwreck and exploration stories.
Here's my list so far. The first seven being my top reads, the rest in random order. Highly suggest my top reads
- Mutiny on the Bounty by Peter FitzSimons
- Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton
- The Wide, Wide Sea by Hampton Sides
- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
- The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
- Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash
- In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
- Conquistador by Buddy Levy
- The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- King Leopolds Ghost by Adam Hochschild
- Labyrinth of Ice by Buddy Levy
- Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen
- Empire of Ice and Stone by Buddy Levy
- Island of the Lost by Joan Druet
- Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone by Martin Dugard
- River of Darkness by Buddy Levy
- The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
- The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
- In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Phillbrick
- The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Currently reading On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
Edit – I should add these all have been audiobooks. Your suggestions are hugely appreciated still even if I can't find it on an audiobook I'll get to it eventually.
by TreesOfLeisure
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You’d probably like [The Black Ship](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/715974.The_Black_Ship), which is the story of a famous mutiny in the British navy in the late 1700s.
*The Jakarta method* by Vincent Bevins
*A Nastly Little War* discusses the Russian Revolution, especially other European’s role in it and how they influenced it and even pushed to make it happen, all the way to the consequence of the Soviet Union
WW2
-Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen
-Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre
-The Nazi Hunters by Andrew Nagorski
-The Saboteur by Paul Kix
-The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L Shirer
-Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
-The Nazis Next Door by Eric Lichtblau
-40 Thieves on Saipan by Joseph Tachovsky
-My Dear Boy by Joanie Holzer Schirm
-The White Mouse by Nancy Wake
-Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre
-Code Name: Lise by Larry Loftis
-The Liberator by Alex Kershaw
-The Bedford Boys by Alex Kershaw
-Scholars of Mayhem by Daniel C Guiet
-Double Cross by Ben Macintyre
-Agent Garbo by Stephan Talty
-The Last Hill by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin
-Against All Odds by Alex Kershaw
-With The Old Breed by EB Sledge
-The Old Breed… The Complete Story Revealed by W Henry Sledge
-Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
-Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton
-Operation Mincemeat by Ben MacIntyre
-Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
-The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
-Masters of the Air by Donald L. Miller
-The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts
-The Conquering Tide by Ian Toll
-Twilight of the Gods by Ian Toll
-Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends by Bill Guarnere and Babe Heffron
-A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
-Voices of The Pacific (Expanded Edition) by Adam Makos
-When Titans Clash by David Grant and Jonathan House
-Hitler’s People by Richard J Evans
-A Tomb Called Iwo Jima by Dan King
-The Nazi Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer
-Codename Nemo by Charles Lachman
Law Enforcement/Crime/Spy
-Handsome Johnny by Lee Server
-Scarface and the Untouchables by Max Allan Collins & A. Brad Schwartz
-Enemies by Tim Wiener
-Chaos: Charles Manson, The CIA and The Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill
-The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot
-The Moscow Rules by Jonna & Antonio Mendez
-The Fixer by Josh Young and Manfred Westphal
Civil War
-The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Volumes) by Shelby Foote
-Midnight Rising by Tony Horowitz
-Manhunt by James L Swanson
-The Lincoln Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer
Korea/Vietnam
-Surprise, Kill, Vanish by Annie Jacobsen
-SOG by John L Plaster
-Things I’ll Never Forget by James M Dixon
Revolutionary War
-1776 by David McCullough
-The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer
American History
-Season of the Witch by David Talbot
-The Fifties by David Halberstam
-A Hard Rain by Frye Gaillard
-American Midnight by Adam Hochschild
-The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman