This is my year for nonfiction, I’m doing a few memoirs this year, but looking for outside that world too.
Books I’ve enjoyed:
The Next 100 Years (George Friedman)
Missoula (Jon Krakauer)
Anything by Gladwell
On the List:
Under the Banner of Heaven (Krakauer)
Blue Blood (if I can get my hands on a copy) (Unger)
Bad Blood (Carreyou)
Meet the Mertzes (this one dances on bio) (Edelman)
There’s others on the list, as well as some mems and also some fiction people say are must reads. I’m always on the hunt for the next book I can’t put down! Thank you!
by CWKitch
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I know you’ve got Krakauer well represented here, but Into Thin Air is one of my all time favorites.
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
I am halfway through SPQR and am enjoying it very much, I feel I am learning a lot.
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
All About Love by bell hooks
Shape by Jordan Ellenberg
Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble
Crossings by Ben Goldfob
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce D. Perry
Quiet by Susan Cain
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett
Range by David Epstein
Skeleton Keys by Brian Switek
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
How to Speak Whale by Tom Mustill
Cultish by Amanda Montell
Truffle Hound by Rowan Jacobsen
After the Miracle by Max Wallace
Pathogenesis by Jonathan Kennedy
Originals by Adam Grant
{{The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan}}
{{The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger}}
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
***The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales*** is a 1985 non-fiction book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. He is a gifted and compassionate writer and this book is a classic!
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Extraordinary Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Gut by Giulia Enders
A couple of books related to long distance hiking –
**Wild** by **Cheryl Strayed**
**Keith Foskett** has done a number of books about long hikes – all worth reading
Food related books –
**Fast Food Nation** : The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by **Eric Schlosser**
**Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver** (living self sufficient)
Travel –
**Border Crossing** : On the road between Peking to Paris by **Rosie Thomas**
and just because it is a great book –
**84 Charring Cross Road** by **Helene Hanff**
Say Nothing and Empire Of Pain by Patrick Radden O’Keefe (spelling?l).
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes.
Say Nothing by Patrick Keefe
The Warmth of Other Sons by Isabel Wilkerson
Everything by Mary Roach, though Stiff is probably my favorite.
Everything by Caitlin Doughty, though From Here to Eternity is probably my favorite.
An Immense World, by Ed Yong
Entangled Life, by Merlin Sheldrake
Radium Girls, The Golden Spruce, Endurance and The Professor and the Madman.