Hello all, below are some books I've read. As above, I'm looking for book recommendations that are different to what I've been exposed to. I'm not too keen on American politics or politicians however, as evidenced below lol. There's only a few in there.
Some books I've read:
- Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
- The Prison Doctor
- The Last Lecture
- Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
- When Breath Becomes Air
- All the Living and the Dead
- Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
- The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
- The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
- Becoming
- Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
- The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
- Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
- The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
- Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
- Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
- Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- Revenge of the Tipping Point
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
- Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
- Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
- The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
- Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
- Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
- What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
- The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
- What My Bones Know
- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
- First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
- The Glass Castle
- Educated
- Know My Name: A Memoir
- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
- The Diary of a Young Girl
- A Bit of a Stretch
- Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
- The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
- My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
- Why We Sleep The New Science of Sleep and Dreams / Why We Can't Sleep Women's New Midlife Crisis
- Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
My to-read list:
- From Third World to First: A Statesman’s Powerful Story of Transformation from Poverty to National Leadership
- Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths To Keep Singapore Going
- The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
- Leonardo da Vinci
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Charles Dickens: A Life
- Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy
- Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years
- Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
- Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
- Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand
- I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Tried and failed to get into it:
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
- An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
I'm trying to expand my range and topics, so I welcome all recs that are different from my 'read' list. That being said, I also wouldn't mind you recommending a book that's similar to my list but 'better' by your standards.
Thank you everyone.
by Familiar-Lynx7996