Suggest me your best non-fiction books that will help me on my quest to become a smarter, more well rounded person! Looking for interesting books on any topics (history, psychology, health, finance, space, gardening, etc etc).
What books have taught you the most interesting and valuable information you’ve used in your life?
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• *Hitler* by Joachim C. Fest.
• *Hitler: The Policies of Seduction* by Rainer Zitelmann.
• *Germany, Hitler, and World War II: Essays in Modern German and World History* by Gerhard L. Weinberg.
• *Varieties of Fascism: Doctrines of Revolution in the Twentieth Century* by Eugen Weber.
• *The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements* by Eric Hoffer.
• *Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire* by Richard B. Frank.
• *Truman and the Hiroshima Cult* by Robert P. Newman.
• *Code Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan—and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb* by Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar.
• *Thank God for the Atom Bomb* by Paul Fussell.
• *Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II* by Marc Gallicchio.
• *Japan’s Secret War: Japan’s Race Against Time to Build Its Own Atomic Bomb* by Robert K. Wilcox.
• *The Prisoner and the Bomb* by Laurens van der Post.
• *The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II* by Iris Chang.
• *Unit 731: Testimony* by Hal Gold.
• *Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific* by Gavan Daws.
I personally suggest these books for they’ve helped me keep an open mind:
Lying by Sam Harris
The Reasons of Love by Harry G. Frankfurt
Love & Math by Edward Frenkel
But How Do It Know? by J. Clark Scott
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
I hope you enjoy at least one of these 🙂
15 Million Degrees by Lucie Green