Hi everybody! I'm trying to get into non fiction reading but I'm not really sure where to start.
A little bit about me i guess. I am born and raised on the east coast of the USA. I've always been interested in history. I like sports. I really enjoyed *the boys in the boat* by Daniel james Brown. (the movie version is *not* good)
I'm willing to try anything!
thanks in advance. <3
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A people’s history of the United States by Howard Zinn. This should be a required reading for anyone interested in American history.
I recommend Eugene Sledge’s excellent WWII memoir, *With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa* by E.B. Sledge, CPL, K Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Mar. Div., U.S.M.C. He was just nineteen.
My husband also loved that book. I suggested “the last letter” by Rebecca yarros and he loves it. It is a tear jerker the last 3 chapters. But well worth it!
For sports, Summer of ’49 by David Halberstam
For US history, Freedom from Fear by David Kennedy
For interesting military history, The Great Siege: Malta 1565 by Ernle Bradford
The Hot zone by Richard Preston.
Have you tried any of Sarah Vowells books? Might start with Assassination Vacation.
Michael Lewis writes excellent engrossing nonfiction on everything from finance to baseball.
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe – covers the history of the Troubles by looking at an unsolved murder that occurred then (it reads like fiction)
Shadow Divers
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
– because everyone, probably especially men, should read this at least once
Sebastian Junger’s books
The People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry: True crime story about a British woman who went missing in Tokyo.
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer: The author was on a Mt. Everest expedition that went wrong and wrote about it.
Confessions of A Recovering Skinhead by Frank Meeink: The memoir of a former white supremacist and how he got out. He also helped inspire Edward Norton’s character in American History X.
Doctor Dealer by Mark Bowden: The crazy story of a Philadelphia dentist who was also a cocaine dealer.
Dark Invasion by Howard Blum: The story of how the NYPD formed the first bomb squad to eliminate a German spy ring during the First World War.
Cattle Kingdom by Christopher Knowlton: All about how the cattle industry shaped America.
The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell: Memoir about the making of The Room, the worst movie ever.