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Good non-fiction?
Any non-fiction recommendations? I'm currently reading The Sixth Extinction (which is great) but I'm running low on good ideas for my next non-fiction books. TIA!
Re: Good non-fiction?
my read shelf:
Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman (about Huguette Clark, a very reclusive wealthy heiress)
Kate's Recipe Box || Relatively Bookish
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand - WW2 survival story
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson - dual story of the Chicago Worlds Fair and America's first serial killer, who operated in the context of the World's Fair
The Dirt by Motley Crue - even if you're not a huge Crue fan (I wasn't when I read it), the autobiography of the band is a great read.
Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv - Louv coined the phrase nature deficit disorder to apply to the recently developed trend of our kids not playing in the wilds anymore - even when they do play outside, kids are usually confined to a yard, park or playground, and not encouraged to run through the woods, finding their own way with nature anymore.
Sugar & Spice
Belly Laughs by Jenny McCarthy, naked truth about pregnancy
Time Bandit by the Hillstrand Brothers, crabbers from the show Deadliest Catch.
My Profile
Books read in 2010: 153
Books read in 2011: 160
Books read in 2012: 134
Books read in 2013: 110
Books read in 2014: 151
Books read in 2015: 153
Books read in 2016: 31
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, Mike Brown
Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything, Stephen Baker
The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases, Michael Capuzzo
my read shelf:
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This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin
Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson
Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
The Northern Lights by Lucy Jago
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra in Their Own Words by Andrei Maylunas & Sergei Mironenko
Wow, you are my non-fiction book reading twin! I've read (and loved) most of these.
Thank you all for great suggestions!!
I will add some of my favorites, as well:
A Primate's Memoir by Sapolsky (one of my all times favorites, LOVED this)
Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mother by Chua (not my parenting philosophy but I enjoyed reading this)
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Ilibagiza (learned a lot from this about the genocide)
The Geography of Bliss by Weiner
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Solomon
All Over But the Shoutin' by Bragg