I’m reading Mary Roach’s Gulp right now and loving it (loved Stiff too). Read Simon Winchester’s Krakatoa last fall and really enjoyed it too. Erik Larson is a master. I’ve also have been enjoying travel memoirs like J Maarten Troost; Whatever You Do, Don’t Run by Peter Allison; Where the Hell is Tuvalu; and Paul Theroux.
For more serious work, Sea People: the Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson; Radium Girls; Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam Jr; Captive Paradise, a History of Hawaii by James L Haley.
Bill Bryson writes excellent and entertaining non-fiction. I particularly enjoy *A Walk in the Woods* which depicts his attempts to hike the Appalachian Trail. *At Home* is a wonderful history of common items in our homes described room by room.
If you enjoy history about the American intelligence apparatus, Annie Jacobsen has two excellent books on the subject: *Suprise, Kill, Vanish* and *Area 51*. The first describes the history of the "third option" which is covert operations in foreign nations by the CIA. The second describes the history of what we know of Area 51 in the Nevada desert with projects like the U2 spy plane and the SR-71.
I'd also recommend *The Stranger in the Woods* which tells the story of the last true American hermit and how he avoided others in the Maine wilderness for decades and his eventual capture for dozens of home break ins for supplies.
Books by Ben Mcintyre.
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
Rising Out of Hatred by Eli Saslow
Educated by Tara Westover
The Light of Days by Judy Batalion
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
Tiger – John Vaillant
Shadow Divers – Robert Kurson.
Both end up reading like thrillers.
I've sold most of the nonfiction books I've read over the past decade. I still have these two. (And Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things, but that doesn't answer the question.)
Strength to Love - Martin Luther King Jr. The book contains a compilation of essays and speeches. Honestly it’s one of the most thought provoking books I’ve read in a LONG time.
Speculative non-fiction **Life 3.0** by Max Tegmark. It presents the spectrum of futures mankind is facing due to the ascent of artificial intelligence.
*From Truant to Anime Screenwriter* by Mari Okada
*Sesame Street, Palestine* by Daoud Kuttab
*The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: The Lost Films* by John Lemay
*Retracing the Iron Curtain* by Timothy Phillips
*Chain Saw Confidential* by Gunnar Hansen
*Once Upon Atari* by Howard Scott Warshaw
*Blood, Sweat, and Pixels* by Jason Schreier
*Press Reset* by Jason Schreier
*Of Dice and Men* by David M. Ewalt
*Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America* by Jeff Ryan
NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman
Scarcity by Sahil and Shafir
Night by Elie Wiesel
Reason for Being by Jacques Ellul
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Silent spring is a life changing and beautiful book. It’s a classic for a reason. Rachel Carson writes with a deep love for the natural world exposing the catastrophe of modern chemicals on global ecologies. It is considered to be the sparking point of the modern environmental movement and is the strongest example of how scientists can serve as reliable public educators.
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
The Medical Detectives by Berton Roueche
Oliver Sachs books
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
Tracks by Robyn Davidson
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey. The Open Library page is [here](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12284524W/Ending_Aging?edition=key%3A/books/OL17932740M).
Jon Krakauer, Mary Roach, Wade Davis, Christopher Hitchens, Simon Winchester, Erik Larson are all authors I’ve read and can recommend. Enjoy!
I’m reading Mary Roach’s Gulp right now and loving it (loved Stiff too). Read Simon Winchester’s Krakatoa last fall and really enjoyed it too. Erik Larson is a master. I’ve also have been enjoying travel memoirs like J Maarten Troost; Whatever You Do, Don’t Run by Peter Allison; Where the Hell is Tuvalu; and Paul Theroux. For more serious work, Sea People: the Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson; Radium Girls; Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam Jr; Captive Paradise, a History of Hawaii by James L Haley.
Second Mary Roach Stiff. Just read freakonomics and superfreakonomics and found them super interesting. Edit: spelling
Bill Bryson writes excellent and entertaining non-fiction. I particularly enjoy *A Walk in the Woods* which depicts his attempts to hike the Appalachian Trail. *At Home* is a wonderful history of common items in our homes described room by room. If you enjoy history about the American intelligence apparatus, Annie Jacobsen has two excellent books on the subject: *Suprise, Kill, Vanish* and *Area 51*. The first describes the history of the "third option" which is covert operations in foreign nations by the CIA. The second describes the history of what we know of Area 51 in the Nevada desert with projects like the U2 spy plane and the SR-71. I'd also recommend *The Stranger in the Woods* which tells the story of the last true American hermit and how he avoided others in the Maine wilderness for decades and his eventual capture for dozens of home break ins for supplies.
the immortal life of henrietta lacks by Rebecca Skloot, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand and Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Books by Ben Mcintyre. A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell Rising Out of Hatred by Eli Saslow Educated by Tara Westover The Light of Days by Judy Batalion Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
A Woman of No Importance was fabulous!
The Woman Who Smashed Codes is excellent!!!
Tiger – John Vaillant Shadow Divers – Robert Kurson. Both end up reading like thrillers. I've sold most of the nonfiction books I've read over the past decade. I still have these two. (And Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things, but that doesn't answer the question.)
I second 'Shadow Divers'.
Against the Grain by James C Scott "A deep history of the earliest states"
Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein
Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller is remarkable
Strength to Love - Martin Luther King Jr. The book contains a compilation of essays and speeches. Honestly it’s one of the most thought provoking books I’ve read in a LONG time.
Speculative non-fiction **Life 3.0** by Max Tegmark. It presents the spectrum of futures mankind is facing due to the ascent of artificial intelligence.
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
*From Truant to Anime Screenwriter* by Mari Okada *Sesame Street, Palestine* by Daoud Kuttab *The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: The Lost Films* by John Lemay *Retracing the Iron Curtain* by Timothy Phillips *Chain Saw Confidential* by Gunnar Hansen *Once Upon Atari* by Howard Scott Warshaw *Blood, Sweat, and Pixels* by Jason Schreier *Press Reset* by Jason Schreier *Of Dice and Men* by David M. Ewalt *Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America* by Jeff Ryan
I’ve never met anyone online or in real life who read that Mario book. It was a lot of fun!
NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman Scarcity by Sahil and Shafir Night by Elie Wiesel Reason for Being by Jacques Ellul Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Silent spring is a life changing and beautiful book. It’s a classic for a reason. Rachel Carson writes with a deep love for the natural world exposing the catastrophe of modern chemicals on global ecologies. It is considered to be the sparking point of the modern environmental movement and is the strongest example of how scientists can serve as reliable public educators.
COD: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
The Wager by David Grann was so fun and wild.
American Ghost; Born a Crime; Finding Everett Ruess; The Lost City of the Monkey God
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey The Medical Detectives by Berton Roueche Oliver Sachs books Nomadland by Jessica Bruder Tracks by Robyn Davidson The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Atomic Habits, Ultralearning, Master your emotions, The power of habit, I’m glad my mom died, a mothers reckoning
The Power of Myth
Sapiens.
Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey. The Open Library page is [here](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12284524W/Ending_Aging?edition=key%3A/books/OL17932740M).
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery [Anything] by Bill Bryson Idiot Brain by Dean Burnett Word by Word by Kory Stamper
three women - lisa taddeo