Need good rec for book club - nonfiction
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In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larsen
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Anonymous
| Drive |
Anonymous
| Imperial Life in the Emerald City |
Anonymous
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Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron - A wonderful account of a land journey tracing the path of the erstwhile Silk Road through modern-day China & Central Asia.
City of Oranges by Adam Lebor - a really human take on the Arab-Israeli conflict, told through the stories of 6 families in Jaffa. |
Anonymous
| One of the Oliver Sachs books? My book club read The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat. Or The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. |
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These are my three favorite non-fiction books. I couldn't put them down until I finished, and I wished they wouldn't end.
- This Life is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres and a Family Undone - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Guests of the Ayatollah |
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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn |
Anonymous
| I just retread Midnight in the Garden of Good and Advil. Reads like a novel, but it's actually nonfiction. A complete hoot. |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1400052181 Seriously a great read and sparked wonderful discussion. |
Anonymous
| Black Swan or In the Garden of the Beast |
Anonymous
| Robert massie's bio of Catherine the Great, Portrait of a Woman. She was a survivor and an enlightened woman. |
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A Mother's Ordeal--about China's one child policy, told by a woman who both enforced it and fell victim to it
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| Stasiland |
Anonymous
| There's a book that Wally Lamb put together and edited. It's various stories written by women in prison; he taught a writing class at a women's prison in Connecticut and the women mostly write stories about their lives and what led them to whatever crime they committed. If you can find it, it is truly fascinating and wonderful and would provide some great discussion. It's called Couldn't Keep It to Myself, by Wally Lamb and the Women of York Penitentiary. |
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Running With Scissors, Augustin Burroughs
Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand I love bios and memoirs. |