Being Wrong Adventures on the Margin of Error,
How Big Things Get Done by professor Bent Flyvbjerg,
Facing the Mountain by Daniel Brown,
Killers of the Flower Moon,
Born a Crime,
All About Me by Mel Brooks
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*The Hacking of the American Mind* –Robert Lustig
*The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World* –David Deutsch
*The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds* –Caroline Van Hemert
*How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going* –Vaclav Smil
*The End of the World is Just the Beginning* –Peter Zeihan
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When money grew on trees by David Mac. It wasn’t the strongest of writing…. But the story is fascinating.
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Bad Blood by John Carreyou
Into Thin Air John Krakauer
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe. Just finished this one, and it reads like a novel!
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The first one listed is hands-down the best non-fiction I’ve read. The next three are in no particular order, and still fantastic!
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win WWII by Sonia Purnell
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in WWII by Svetlana Alexievich
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
A Fever in the Heartland: The KKK’s Plot to Take Over America and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes and the Pacific Trilogy by Ian Toll
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Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
by Richard Rhodes
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The Program: Seven Deadly Sins; My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong by David Walsh.
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Being Wrong Adventures on the Margin of Error,
How Big Things Get Done by professor Bent Flyvbjerg,
Facing the Mountain by Daniel Brown,
Killers of the Flower Moon,
Born a Crime,
All About Me by Mel Brooks
*The Hacking of the American Mind* –Robert Lustig
*The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World* –David Deutsch
*The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds* –Caroline Van Hemert
*How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going* –Vaclav Smil
*The End of the World is Just the Beginning* –Peter Zeihan
When money grew on trees by David Mac. It wasn’t the strongest of writing…. But the story is fascinating.
Bad Blood by John Carreyou
Into Thin Air John Krakauer
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe. Just finished this one, and it reads like a novel!
The first one listed is hands-down the best non-fiction I’ve read. The next three are in no particular order, and still fantastic!
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win WWII by Sonia Purnell
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in WWII by Svetlana Alexievich
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
A Fever in the Heartland: The KKK’s Plot to Take Over America and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes and the Pacific Trilogy by Ian Toll
Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
by Richard Rhodes
The Program: Seven Deadly Sins; My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong by David Walsh.
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston