Some interesting but detailed knowledgeable non fiction rec please

[Anjney]

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[Ian]

A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
Mother Nature Is Trying To Kill You by Dan Riskin.
Gifts Of Unknown Things by Lyall Watson.
The Island Of The Colorblind by Oliver Sacks.

[Paging Caitríona]

Breath by James Nestor
Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell

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*James Nestor

[Samantha]

The Underworld:Journeys into the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey

[Gustavo]

Gödel, Escher and Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

[Anjney]

Thank you everyone

[Vickie]

Love Bill Bryson! He explained why Pluto is no longer a planet.

[Ruth]

Non-fiction is so broad. So it depends on what interests you. I listened to The Worth of Water: Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World's Greatest Challenge earlier this year and loved it. Reminds me how fortunate I am. I read a lot of non-fiction, but I'm all over, because I read memoirs, true crime, history... Just about everything.

[Laura McCallum]

I like nonfiction that reads like a novel, it pulls you in right away. Examples: Bad Blood, Mindhunter, Empire of Pain, She Said. All pretty dark but riveting!

[Hana]

i didn't really read alot of non-fiction books but there's one called Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robins. It was amazing but the book was SO big (560 pages). I also read it in Arabic, so I'm not sure how it'll be in English, but it's original language is English so hopefully it'll be better.

[Audra]

There was a book written by David Thibodeau, one of the (few) survivors of Waco which I really liked. I think cult stories are interesting. I moved to the US in the 90s and didn't know the story.

OH! Also Exposure by Robert Billot (sp?)

What type of non-fiction (or types) do you like?

I saw someone else recommended Gödel, Escher and Bach - my husband is reading that right now, and he likes it.

I also know some people who like Finding the Mother Tree.

I like biographies. I read Frank McCourt a long time ago and remember liking it. Recently I read I'm Glad My Mom is Dead and was surprised that it was better than I thought it would be. The Tattooist of Auschwitz was good, and so was Unbroken.

[Stephanie]

How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop The by Barbara F. Walters

[Lloyd]

Understanding Meteorlogy
Rod Moon

I recommend this book! Have a good day dear reader!

[Montzalee]

Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
Detailed but very good!

Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist

The Child in the Electric Chair : The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South

Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo

The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt

Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea

[Anirudh]

Sapiens? The author also wrote a "sequel" of sorts - I think it's about humanity going forward. Homo Deus or something.

If self help books can be included in this genre
1. Art of War by Sun Tzu
2. Ikigai
3. Prince by Nicolo Machiaveli
4. The God Delusion (very controversial, don't say I didn't warn you lol)

[Ross]

My favorite genre where it's a great book. Best three reads in last few years:
Bad Blood by John Carreyou
Midnight in Chernobyl by Abram Higginbotham
Wastelands by Corban Addison

They all read like novels but being true makes them more compelling.

[Shawna]

Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present

[Rosemarie]

The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
700 Sundays by Billy Crystal

[Christine]

"Tunnel 29" by Helena Merriman. By far the best non-fiction book I've read 2 years ago.
It's about the people who dug tunnels from West Berlin to East Berlin after the Berlin Wall was built to get their loved ones into West-Berlin.

[Megan]

Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
Red Famine by Anne Applebaum
Black Wave by Kim Ghattas
I’ll list more later I’m dozing off lol 😴😴😴

[Joyce]

The Badass Librarians of Timbuctoo by Joshua Hammer is about the rescue of ancient medieval and valuable manuscripts from militant Islamists intent on destroying anything and anyone opposed to extremist ideas of Islam. Page turner, informative, and kept me interested to the last page.

[Lynn]

Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler by Bruce Henderson;
The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar by Robin R. Means Coleman;
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard;
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native American and Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff

[Morgan]

Non-fiction is such a broad genre - hard to know what to suggest that may be of interest to group members here are a few of my favourites:
The Great Nijinsky by Lynn Curlee
No Ordinary Pilot : in World War II by Suzanne Campbell-Jones
Killers of the Flower Moon:The Osage Murders & the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat by Giles Milton
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool by Peter Turner
How may I help you? : an immigrant's journey from MBA to minimum wage by Deepak Singh
Alone, the triumph & tragedy of John Curry by Bill Jones
Dead Wake: the Lusitania by Erik Larson
Leap Through the Curtain The Story of Nora Kovach & Istvan Rabovsky by George Mikes
The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
Black man on the Titanic : Joseph Laroche by Serge Bile
At Her Majesty’s Request: An African princess in Victorian England by Walter Dean Myers

[Lisa]

I agree with Sapiens, really interesting read and I even highlighted parts, nooo!! I hear you scream. I know!!

[Michael]

Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

[Ralph]

Does anyone else miss David McCullough's histories? I do

[Mel]

The Master and his Emissary by Iain McGhilchrist

[Circa24]

I liked The Wisdom of Loki by Ptera Hunter. It explores lying and deceit in the natural world from plants to animals to molecules.

[Marlliny]

I really enjoyed Men Who Made a New Physics: Physicists and the Quantum Theory by Barbara Lovett Cline, It was written in the 60's but the topic is always current :)

[Mary ♥]

Some books/topics I found fascinating:

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
A Brief History of Time
The Discovery of Insulin
The Blood of Emmett Till
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Great thread BTW, I'm discovering so many interesting books.

[Marlliny]

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women and A Brief History of Time are really-really good.

More options:
1) Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age by James Essinger
2) A Profile of Mathematical Logic by Howard DeLong
3) Gödel ∀ by Martinez Guillermo

[Lalrinawmi]

I read all kinds of nonfiction genre but it depends on what you prefer . Psychology, philosophy,self development ,personal finance…

[Matthew]

Gustavo wrote: "Gödel, Escher and Bach by Douglas Hofstadter"

This book changed my life!

[Matthew]

The Dawn of Everything is one of the best no -fiction books of the decade. Challenges in a smart, interesting way everything you believe about the story of human civilization!

Caste is also fantastic

Seeing Like a State
The Long Southern Strategy