Nonfiction suggestions
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Anonymous
| I’ve been more into nonfiction lately. Would love to hear your nonfiction suggestions. History, true crime, science, whatever. |
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-Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
- Quiet (Susan Cain) -Caste (Isabel Wilkerson) -The Warmth of Other Suns (Isabel Wilkerson) -Born A Crime (Trevor Noah) I mostly read fiction. These books are well-written and compelling enough to be near the top of my stack. I have also enjoyed books by Anne Lamott, especially bird by bird. |
Anonymous
| Educated and Just Kids are other possibilities (altho I think Educated shows up on the thread of popular books you didn’t like) |
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| Cultish |
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Chocolate City, about the history of DC
Sewing Girl's Tale, about a early rape prosecution in 1780s NYC 10 Steps to Nanette, Hannah Gadsby's memoir about dealing with mental illness and trauma The Rage of Innocence, about racism in the juvenile justice system The Woman They Could Not Silence, about the fight to end sexist laws that allowed husbands to put their wives in insane asylums |
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"The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders" by Anthony Flacco
Very dark subject-teenage boy was forced by his uncle to torture and murder other young boys (and was brutally tortured himself) in the 1920s This was also depicted in the movie "Changeling." https://www.amazon.com/Road-Out-Hell-Sanford-Wineville-ebook/dp/B07VYGX8H8 |
Anonymous
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The Genius of Birds
Brain on Fire Maybe you should talk to someone The Sewing Girl’s Tale |
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"Slave Narratives" from the Federal Writers Project.
Total collection is from 17 states and is of first-person interviews with more than 2,000 former slaves from 1936-1938. Library of Congress has more info. |
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| "Issac's Storm" by Erik Larson. Apropos after Hurricane Ian. |
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Autobiographies:
Truth Be Told by Beverley McLaughlin Ducks by Kate Beaton Podcasts: This Podcast Will Kill You The Emily Show This Day in Esoteric Political History The Memory Palace |
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Empire of Pain, about the opioid epidemic - will make you question everything the FDA approves
Madame Secretary - Madeleine Albright's autobiography The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulright - probably my favorite nonfiction ever. Takes the daily diary of a woman from colonial New England who was a midwife and extrapolates all kinds of detail about the lives of ordinary women during that time period Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - series of essays/linked chapters about Indigenous peoples' interactions with nature and what we can learn from them Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain - a young woman during WWI, authobiography Life and Death of the Great Lakes - fascinating investigative reporting about the ecological disaster in the Great Lakes All That She Carried by Tiya Miles - looks at the items a young enslaved girl brought with her out of slavery and what they tell us about her life and that of her ancestors |
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Braiding Sweetgrass is one of the best books I’ve ever read in my life.
How the Word is Passed (Clint Smith) - I listened to the audiobook and highly recommend it. Why We Sleep (Mathew Walker) |
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| Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candace Millard |
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| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot |
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The Quantum Zoo: A Tourist's Guide to the Never-Ending Universe, by Marcus Chown
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, Daniel J Levitin Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty that Creates Havoc, by Arthur Miller |