Hi all,
I’m mostly reading narrative nonfiction nowadays and have a very long list to get through (somewhat thanks to posts here!) but I’ve realised lately that a lot of the books I’ve read have been American centric.
Does anyone have any recs for British or European narrative nonfiction? Or even anywhere but USA?
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve loved the books I’ve read. But want to change it up too!
Thanks
by jjcrafts
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Branded by the Pink Triangle by Ken Setterington. About gay men during the Holocaust
Factory Girls by Leslie Chang. It is by a Chinese-American, so it might be too much of an American lens, but it is an immigrant story about going back to China.
Solito by Javier Zamora is an immigrant story to the US.
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick – American writer, but the book is about people in North Korea
Making Sense of the Troubles” by David McKittrick and David McVea is an excellent history of the Northern Irish conflict.
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families – Philip Gourevitch
About the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. I cried reading it.
Edit: anything by Tom Holland (no not that Tom Holland, the historian Tom Holland)