Spent 2025 doom scrolling and can't repeat it (had a newborn, no attention span, crap sleep, blah blah). I don't even know where to start finding a book that will hook me – but also be something I can pick up and put down (reminder: have a toddler) without too much problem.
I love narrative non-fiction and it's the genre I want to return to. Examples I loved to get thoughts started:
- Evicted by Matthew Desmond
- Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew
- The Tiger by John Vaillant
- Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides
- Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
- Into the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade
Wide-ranging topics as you can see, but all fast paced, hyper focused, narrative! – let me know what you loved and what I should trade my phone for this year.
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Endurance by Alfred Lansing
The Indifferent Stars Above
Trespassers at the Golden Gate
The Devil’s Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
Urrea is also a poet and novelist. It’s a devastating book.
The Devil’s Teeth by Susan Casey is about the greatest white sharks and the obsessed researchers studying them off the coast of CA.
No More Tears by Gardiner Harris is about the ethics at Johnson and Johnson. It’s appalling and eye opening. I wish everyone who read Empire of Pain also read it!
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson is about divers trying to identify a Uboat sunk off the coast of New Jersey.
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson (I haven’t read any of his other books but they are all highly regarded – plus I met him randomly once, we were staying at the same b&b, and he’s super nice!)
h{{The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson}} is primarily three narratives of people involved in the Great Migration.