I never read non fiction and looking for something that's an easy read. I like reading about true crime, people who left a cult, the opioid crisis or any suggestions that you enjoyed reading.
One of my favourite non fictions is **Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men** by Caroline Criado Pérez. It taught me a lot. Easy to understand and the author makes everything accessible with a smooth narrative. I listened to the audiobook.
Also, if you’re open to memoirs, I loved:
* **Born a Crime** by Trevor Noah
* **They Called Us Enemy** by George Takei (graphic novel)
* **You Can’t Be Serious** by Kal Penn
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All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks, autobiography of a woman who cared for men dying during the aids crisis
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Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe. Absolutely lays bare the greed and hypocrisy of the family behind the opioid crisis. One of the great works of investigative non-fiction.
Not necessarily an easy read, as it’s long and it’ll make you angry, but worth it.
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*Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion* by Gary Webb, investigative journalist, *San Jose Mercury News.*
*Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw* by Mark Bowden, correspondent, *The Atlantic*.
*The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country* by Laton McCartney.
*Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI* by David Grann, journalist, *New York Times.*
*Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders* by Vincent Bugliosi.
*Six Days or Forever?: Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes* [1925] by Ray Ginger.
*Gideon’s Trumpet* by Anthony Lewis, journalist, *New York Times*.
*Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK* by Gerald Posner, investigative journalist, *The New Yorker.*
*The Day Lincoln Was Shot* by Jim Bishop.
*Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln* by Edward Steers Jr.
*The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street: Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Erie Railway Wars, and the Birth of Wall Street* by John Steele Gordon.
*Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield* by Kenneth D. Ackerman.
*Six Days or Forever?: Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes* [1925] by Ray Ginger.
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Opioids: “Dreamland” by Sam Quinones (“Empire of Pain” has a great reputation too, but I haven’t read it)
True crime: “The Poisoner’s Handbook” (Deborah Blum), “McMafia” (Misha Glenny), “The Feather Thief” (Kirk Johnson?), “Under the Banner of Heaven” (Jon Krakauer)
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One of my favourite non fictions is **Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men** by Caroline Criado Pérez. It taught me a lot. Easy to understand and the author makes everything accessible with a smooth narrative. I listened to the audiobook.
Also, if you’re open to memoirs, I loved:
* **Born a Crime** by Trevor Noah
* **They Called Us Enemy** by George Takei (graphic novel)
* **You Can’t Be Serious** by Kal Penn
All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks, autobiography of a woman who cared for men dying during the aids crisis
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe. Absolutely lays bare the greed and hypocrisy of the family behind the opioid crisis. One of the great works of investigative non-fiction.
Not necessarily an easy read, as it’s long and it’ll make you angry, but worth it.
*Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion* by Gary Webb, investigative journalist, *San Jose Mercury News.*
*Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw* by Mark Bowden, correspondent, *The Atlantic*.
*The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country* by Laton McCartney.
*Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI* by David Grann, journalist, *New York Times.*
*Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders* by Vincent Bugliosi.
*Six Days or Forever?: Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes* [1925] by Ray Ginger.
*Gideon’s Trumpet* by Anthony Lewis, journalist, *New York Times*.
*Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK* by Gerald Posner, investigative journalist, *The New Yorker.*
*The Day Lincoln Was Shot* by Jim Bishop.
*Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln* by Edward Steers Jr.
*The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street: Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Erie Railway Wars, and the Birth of Wall Street* by John Steele Gordon.
*Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield* by Kenneth D. Ackerman.
*Six Days or Forever?: Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes* [1925] by Ray Ginger.
Opioids: “Dreamland” by Sam Quinones (“Empire of Pain” has a great reputation too, but I haven’t read it)
True crime: “The Poisoner’s Handbook” (Deborah Blum), “McMafia” (Misha Glenny), “The Feather Thief” (Kirk Johnson?), “Under the Banner of Heaven” (Jon Krakauer)