Water Mirror Echo by Jeff Chang, it’s a biography of Bruce Lee and even though it’s massive it never feels boring. Chang’s prose just keeps blasting along.
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I’m currently reading The Warmth Of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, and it’s been completely flooring me. Amazing mix of in-depth historical research and focused, beautiful narrative based on long interviews the writer did with the three main “characters.”
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Into Thin Air and Under the Banner of Heaven – both by Jon Krakauer, are riveting
Educated – Tara Westover
Nothing to Envy – Barbara Demick (about N Korea – it’s fantastic)
FunIll3535 on
1929 – about the big stock market crash.
verachka201 on
King: A Life about MLK
Bowmanatee on
Everything is Tuberculosis was awesome – didn’t suffer from non-fiction book bloat either
Background-Factor433 on
Taking Hawai’i by Stephen Dando-Collins.
Ahjumawi on
*The Wager* by David Grann
*Jesus and John Wayne* by Kristin Kobes du Mez
*Careless People* by Sarah Wynn-Williams
*Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire* by Kurt Andersen
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Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold was brilliant. It is a true crime book that covers a broad scope of social and women’s history in early 20th century USA and London. Cannot recommend enough.
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The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan was a reread, but I’ll always recommend it given the chance.
Good-Variation-6588 on
It was uneven so I didn’t rate it as highly at first but I can’t stop thinking about it especially the prose on the first half: Dream State by Eric Puchner
It goes off the rails a bit at the end but the first half of this book is the best prose I’ve read in a long time— it just really made me feel and connect to each character!
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Everything is Tuberculosis–John Green
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America–Clint Smith
Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization–Bill McKibben
The Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home–Stephen Starring Grant
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language–Adam Aleksic
Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere–Maria Bamford
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Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
they can’t kill us until they kill us by Hanif Abdurraqib
How to protect bookstores and why/how to resist Amazon and why by Danny Caine
American Sirens by Kevin Hazzard
One day everyone will have always been against this by Omar el Akkad
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Water Mirror Echo by Jeff Chang, it’s a biography of Bruce Lee and even though it’s massive it never feels boring. Chang’s prose just keeps blasting along.
I’m currently reading The Warmth Of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, and it’s been completely flooring me. Amazing mix of in-depth historical research and focused, beautiful narrative based on long interviews the writer did with the three main “characters.”
Into Thin Air and Under the Banner of Heaven – both by Jon Krakauer, are riveting
Educated – Tara Westover
Nothing to Envy – Barbara Demick (about N Korea – it’s fantastic)
1929 – about the big stock market crash.
King: A Life about MLK
Everything is Tuberculosis was awesome – didn’t suffer from non-fiction book bloat either
Taking Hawai’i by Stephen Dando-Collins.
*The Wager* by David Grann
*Jesus and John Wayne* by Kristin Kobes du Mez
*Careless People* by Sarah Wynn-Williams
*Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire* by Kurt Andersen
Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold was brilliant. It is a true crime book that covers a broad scope of social and women’s history in early 20th century USA and London. Cannot recommend enough.
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan was a reread, but I’ll always recommend it given the chance.
It was uneven so I didn’t rate it as highly at first but I can’t stop thinking about it especially the prose on the first half: Dream State by Eric Puchner
It goes off the rails a bit at the end but the first half of this book is the best prose I’ve read in a long time— it just really made me feel and connect to each character!
Everything is Tuberculosis–John Green
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America–Clint Smith
Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization–Bill McKibben
The Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home–Stephen Starring Grant
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language–Adam Aleksic
Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere–Maria Bamford
Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
they can’t kill us until they kill us by Hanif Abdurraqib
How to protect bookstores and why/how to resist Amazon and why by Danny Caine
American Sirens by Kevin Hazzard
One day everyone will have always been against this by Omar el Akkad