Please recommend a great nonfiction book

[Anonymous]

Oldies but goodies

Wild Swans
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Rape of Nanking
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm reading Elon Musk biography - out of my typical range but very well written and a great insight to how brilliance actually works.

Caused me to question genius: is it a chemical difference? Or are some people just more motivated and well organized.

Would love to hear from others who have read this book.

You've intrigued me -- I'll pick this up!

[Anonymous]

No Ordinary Time by Doris Kears Goodwin

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oldies but goodies

Wild Swans
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Rape of Nanking
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families

This book is amazing.

Also liked:
Simon Winder, Danubia
Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Gary Rivlin, Broke, USA
Richard Fortey, Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms or Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years
Stacy Shiff, Cleopatra
Sam Kean: The Disappearing Spoon

[Anonymous]

I've mentioned this on DCUM a couple of times. IRL I've had a few people come back afterwards and say they enjoyed reading the book, too. Madeleine Albright is an amazing public speaker and was a gifted diplomat so it doesn't surprise me that she was also a talented storyteller of her own history as SecState.

Madame Secretary by Madeleine Albright

[Anonymous]

The Glass Castle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Glass Castle.

Love this book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've mentioned this on DCUM a couple of times. IRL I've had a few people come back afterwards and say they enjoyed reading the book, too. Madeleine Albright is an amazing public speaker and was a gifted diplomat so it doesn't surprise me that she was also a talented storyteller of her own history as SecState.

Madame Secretary by Madeleine Albright

This was excellent. Agreed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oldies but goodies

Wild Swans
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Rape of Nanking
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families

This book is amazing.

Also liked:
Simon Winder, Danubia
Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Gary Rivlin, Broke, USA
Richard Fortey, Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms or Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years
Stacy Shiff, Cleopatra
Sam Kean: The Disappearing Spoon

PP, we are of the same mind. Don't let's go to the dogs is one of my all time favorites. I'll have to read more off your list!!! (Original PP here.)

[Anonymous]

Op here. Thank you! These are some great selections. I've read several on the lists and definitely agree that they are riveting. Looking forward to diving into the new (for me) recommendations. Thanks again,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm reading Elon Musk biography - out of my typical range but very well written and a great insight to how brilliance actually works.

Caused me to question genius: is it a chemical difference? Or are some people just more motivated and well organized.

Would love to hear from others who have read this book.

I can't comment, but you've made me want to read it. thanks for the recommendation

[Anonymous]

I'm about to start this one; a few friends have highly recommended it.

http://www.amazon.com/Factory-Man-Furniture-Offshoring-American/dp/031623141X

[Anonymous]

I just posted this on another thread, but I cannot recommend Agent Zigzag by Ben McIntyre highly enough.

[Anonymous]

I get through about 100 audiobooks a year on my commute. Have heard many of the books receommended here (everything by Larson, all the memoirs that get hot for a while, etc.)

The nonfiction that stands out more than any others from the past 5 years is Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides.

[Anonymous]

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies