Hi! I have not read nonfiction for years, and I would like to read more nonfiction, but I’m not into the standard biography/autobiographies. I do like life stories that read like “In Order To Live” by Yeonmi Park- any like that I would like! NO politics or history please- unless it’s about Chinese history or Scottish history. Anything but politics lol… any type of nonfiction recommendations is welcome!!!
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*The Making of the Atomic Bomb*, by Rhodes
Science: *Stuff Matters* by Mark Miodownik
Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang
*A Short History of China* by Hilda Hookam.
*Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion* *1250–1276* by Jacques Gernet.
*The Mongol Warlords: Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, Hulegu, Tamerlane* by David Nicolle.
*The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another* by W. Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello.
*The Manchus* by Pamela K. Crossley.
*China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China 1937-1952* by Hans van de Ven.
*The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II* by Iris Chang.
*Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe 1958–1962* by Frank Dikötter.
*The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976* by Frank Dikötter.
*Robert the Bruce: King of Scots* by Ronald McNair Scott.
I am not much of a non-fiction reader but I have loved two books that neatly fit your parameters
The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
And
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak
*How infrastructure works* by Deb Chachra
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane