I’ve realized that I’ve only ever read fiction. I’d like to branch out more, but don’t know where to start. Any recommendations are appreciated!
Edit: Thank you all so so much for all the great recommendations! My tbr list just got much longer lol
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What genres are you into? Or at least, things you like?
* The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
* The feather thief
* The Great Turning: From Empire To Earth Community (David C. Korten)
* No Contest: The Case Against Competition (Alfie Kohn)
* Daring Greatly: How The Courage To Be Vulnerable Transforms The Way We Live, Love, Parent, And Lead (Brené Brown)
* The Story Of Stuff (Annie Leonard)
* The News: A User’s Manual (Alain De Botton)
* Salt Sugar Fat: How The Food Giants Hooked Us (Michael Moss)
* Trust Us, We’re Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science And Gambles With Your Future (John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton)
* Turning To One Another: Simple Conversations To Restore Hope To The Future (Margaret J. Wheatley)
* Lost Connections: Uncovering The Real Causes Of Depression–And The Unexpected Solutions (Johann Hari)
* The Search For A Nonviolent Future (Michael N. Nagler)
Anything by Erik Larson or Jon Krakauer. You can’t go wrong. I’d start with Devil in the White City by Larson.
Anything by Erik Larson or Jon Krakauer. Start with Devil in the White City by Larson.
Here are a few of my recent 5-star titles in no particular order:
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds –Caroline Van Hemert
Thinking, Fast and Slow –Danny Kahneman
I Contain Multitudes –Ed Yong
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going –Vaclav Smil
Enlightenment Now –Steve Pinker
The Hacking of the American Mind –Robert Lustig
The End of the World is Just the Beginning –Peter Zeihan
Pale Blue Dot –Carl Sagan
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time –Dava Sobel
The Uninhabitable Earth –David Wallace-Wells
Justice For Animals –Martha Nussbaum
This is Vegan Propaganda –Ed Winters
Psych: The Story of the Human Mind –Paul Bloom
Never Split the Difference –Chris Voss
*In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex* [1820] by Nathaniel Philbrick
*Dark Horse: the Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield* [1881] by Kenneth D. Ackerman.
*The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street: Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the Erie Railway Wars* [1866-78] by John Steele Gordon.
*Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane* [the 1900 Galveston hurricane] by Erik Larson.
*A Night to Remember* [the R.M.S. *Titanic*: 1912] by Walter Lord.
*The Last Voyage of the Lusitania* [1915] by A. A. Hoehling and Mary Hoehling.
*America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918* by Alfred W. Crosby.
*Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI* [early 1920s] by David Grann.
*The Teapot Dome Scandal* [1923]: *How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country* by Laton McCartney.
*Six Days or Forever?: Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes* [1925] by Ray Ginger.
*Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America* by John M. Barry.
*Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party* by George R. Stewart.