People request "best nonfiction" books on here almost weekly and I always recommend to folks to read "Barbarian Days" by William Finnegan as it is one of the best books, period, fiction or nonfiction, that I have ever read. Yet,I have not seen much engagement with that recommendation, nor do I ever see any other suggestions for it!
What other books (fiction or nonfiction) do you suggest regularly, but don't see mentioned much elsewhere on this sub?
by guadalupeoso
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Human acts by Han Kang. Heart breaking but 10/10
John Muir: Rediscovering America by Frederick Turner. My favorite biography I’ve read
Nonfiction: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
Fiction: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Both blew me away
*Battle of the Linguist Mages* by Scotto Moore. It’s just an absurdly fun modern cyberpunk-fantasy with a super cool premise. It’s far from high-brow literature by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s incredibly fun, funny, and the author being a playwright I think does a LOT of justice to his ability to evoke super vivid imagery with his words.
I was hooked pretty much from start to finish. As long as you’re okay with things being just a little silly (the foundation of the book is a VR video game called Sparkle Dungeon) then I think everybody should give it a shot.
Empire Falls – Richard Russo
The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
Love both!