I was reading a lot of nonfiction books last year, always pretty curious about our world and our society.
Here are some books I’ve read last year:
The Looming Tower – Lawrence Wright
Why We Sleep? – Matthew Walker
Market Wizards – Jack D. Schwager
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The Science of Liberty by Timothy Ferris for educational. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson for funny. I just started Bryson’s A Short History of Everything.
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi is my more recent recommendation for this genre. It’s hard to get through because it’s someone with so much potential and life ahead of him, that is brutally cut short. But his points and perspective really resonated with me and helped me view my own life purpose and mortality in a way I’d never considered.
If you’re into medical examiner stuff, I’d highly recommend Working Stiff by Judy Melinek, if nothing else than her take on 9/11 or Unnatural Death by Michael Baden who covers so many topics but most prevalent is the effect autopsies have had on things like the airline industry and the JFK autopsy.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is just a wonderful look at the collision of two cultures and how that played out in a medical setting. Also an interesting read about Hmong culture.
No way I can narrow it down to one, but here’s a few of my favorites from the past several years:
*The dawn of everything* by Davids Graeber and Wengrow
*Kindred* by Rebecca Sykes
*An immense world* by Ed Yong
*The light eaters* by Zoe Schlanger
*Becoming kin* by Patty Krawec
*Red deal* by Red Nation
*The Jakarta method* by Vincent Bevins
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay.
No one ever takes me up on it, but I will die on the hill of Mauve: How One Man Who Invented a Color that Changed the World.
Devil in the White City
Just Kids – Patti Smith