Hi, can any of you please suggest any good non-fiction books, preferably a historical documentary. Thank you! by Thechamp_morchid4
clambuttocks on January 30, 2026 5:18 pm [The Wager](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61714633) is my go-to rec for a historical nonfiction. I also really enjoyed [Why Fish Don’t Exist](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50887097), but that’s more biographical
aerlenbach on January 30, 2026 5:23 pm “Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism” by Michael Parenti (1997) “A People’s History of the United States” (2004 edition) by Howard Zinn “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong” (2007 edition) by James W. Loewen “Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire” by Jonathan M. Katz (2022) “The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World” (2020) by Vincent Bevins “Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq” (2006) by Stephen Kinzer “How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States” (2019) by Daniel Immerwahr “The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government” (2015) by David Talbot “The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” by John Perkins (2016) “Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia” by Paul L. Williams (2015)
Sandboxthinking on January 30, 2026 5:36 pm The Nazi Officer’s Wife – A true story written by a Jewish woman trapped in the heart of Berlin during the height of Nazi Germany.
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[The Wager](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61714633) is my go-to rec for a historical nonfiction. I also really enjoyed [Why Fish Don’t Exist](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50887097), but that’s more biographical
“Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism” by Michael Parenti (1997)
“A People’s History of the United States” (2004 edition) by Howard Zinn
“Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong” (2007 edition) by James W. Loewen
“Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire” by Jonathan M. Katz (2022)
“The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World” (2020) by Vincent Bevins
“Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq” (2006) by Stephen Kinzer
“How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States” (2019) by Daniel Immerwahr
“The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government” (2015) by David Talbot
“The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” by John Perkins (2016)
“Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia” by Paul L. Williams (2015)
The Nazi Officer’s Wife – A true story written by a Jewish woman trapped in the heart of Berlin during the height of Nazi Germany.