I have noticed that when people request nonfiction, most of the suggestions are memoirs (which I have read a fair share but never cared for the majority of the ones I have read). I do find books on sociology interesting, but they don't have to be.
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Very very chunky book, but The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo is excellent. It’s a retelling of his infamous Stanford prison experiment and how it relates to the real world and situations like Abu Graib
Also talks about the ethics of the experiment in hindsight
There’s a whole world of nonfiction out there. What are you looking for? I’ll give the basic suggestions that are often made here, as they are recommended often because they’re great. For science in a fun accessible way, try Mary Roach. Look into Bill Bryson for more general nonfiction. For survival adventure, nothing beats Endurance by Alfred Lansing about Shackelton’s Antarctic adventure. For history but a bit more narrative in style, anything by Erik Larson. Think of a subject you’re interested in, then look for books about it. I’m currently into Boston history as that’s where I’m from, and just finished The Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire by Schorow , and just started Dark Tide, the Great Molasses Flood by Puleo. I read more nonfiction than fiction and there’s so much wonder out there to explore. I had a spate of reading about sea exploration and the Pacific, and have been reading about human evolution.
Fat Talk by Virginia Sole-Smith
Hey Hun by Emily Lynn Paulson (I think it’s technically a memoir but its a fascinating look into MLMs)
Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakaur
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
NeuroTribes by Steve Silverman
A Perfect Red – Amy Butler Greenfield.
Everything is Tuberculosis – John Greenfield.
Both are riveting.
Under the Banner of Heaven, which is part American history and part true crime.
The Hot Zone
*American Gun: The True History of the AR-15*. A view into the mindset of post-WWII American people and the military industrial complex. You don’t have to be a gun person to be simultaneously fascinated and appalled.