I just finished The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel. I didn’t even know it was a true story until looking into it after I finished.
I guess I’m looking for similar books. Like cool stories from history. Thanks!
by classicjm
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I enjoy the Bill O’Rielly books. They make nonfiction more interesting to read about. Not sure if it’s exactly what you’re looking for but they’re entertaining books.
Michael Finkel also wrote *The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century.* You should give this one a try!
Erik Larson’s books.
“Devil in the White City” talks about the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893 and the prep for it while also telling the story of serial killer HH Holmes during that time. It reads like a fiction novel because you can’t make that stuff up.
“Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania” was great as well, but for book lovers, there are some priceless works that were lost. It made me cry.
“Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History” was one of his first novels and reads more like non-fiction, but still a fascinating tale of the beginning of the National Weather Service and how racism and hubris led to the death of thousands of people in Galveston, Texas.
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
Another one that’s a bit different but one of the best, most entertaining, non-fiction books ever written is Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing. That book will grip you and not let go.
Billion Dollar Whale by Bradley Wright and Tom Hope. It’s the story of the scammer behind the 1MDB scandal and reads like a crazy movie.
Erik Larson has already been recommended. I would also suggest Tom Wolfe (*The Right Stuff, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test*) and Jon Krakauer (*Into Thin Air, Under the Banner of Heaven*).
Anything by Ben McIntyre. My favourites are Operation Mincemeat and The Spy And The Traitor
anything by jon krakauer
*Wings of Morning: The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany in World War II* by Thomas Childers.