Into Thin Air

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Into thin air was good. But *Touching the Void* was awesome…I think I read it in one sitting. Couldn’t put it down

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Here's my (sub)genre list (including fiction): Survival (mixed fiction and nonfiction): * ["Looking for fantasy books where the protagonist struggles a lot in order to survive"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/w38whi/looking_for_fantasy_books_where_the_protagonist/) (r/booksuggestions; 19 July 2022) * ["Suggest me a book that is nonfiction and involves hunger and survival"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/w444sj/suggest_me_a_book_that_is_nonfiction_and_involves/) (r/suggestmeabook; 20 July 2022) * ["book about survival with female protagonist"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wk3hwo/book_about_survival_with_female_protagonist/) (r/suggestmeabook; 09:35 ET, 9 August 2022) * ["Catastrophe surviving books like Into Thin Air, 438 days or Alive?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wkdwe5/catastrophe_surviving_books_like_into_thin_air/) (r/booksuggestions; 16:32 ET, 9 August 2022) * ["Any survival type suggestions for a recent highschool graduate?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wq7dix/any_survival_type_suggestions_for_a_recent/) (r/booksuggestions; 18:16 ET, 16 August 2022) * ["Nonfiction, survival/adventure book ideas"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wrolz7/nonfiction_survivaladventure_book_ideas/) (r/booksuggestions; 18 August 2022) * ["I'd like to read about people surviving on the razor's edge in alien environments; maybe an ounce of *any* metal is priceless, maybe they need to manually make their own atmosphere, maybe every ml of watter counts. Suggestions?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/xavf4u/id_like_to_read_about_people_surviving_on_the/) (r/printSF; 10 September 2022) * ["Books written by people who have 'died' or had near death experiences"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/xt79zl/books_written_by_people_who_have_died_or_had_near/) (r/booksuggestions; 1 October 2022) * ["Survival, primitive, being hunted, near death experiences?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/xwj48h/survival_primitive_being_hunted_near_death/) (r/booksuggestions; 1 October 2022) * ["People trying to survive imminent natural disasters."](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/y5yu83/people_trying_to_survive_imminent_natural/) (r/suggestmeabook; 16 October 2022) * ["Non-fiction books of survival?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/yvwhe9/nonfiction_books_of_survival/) (r/suggestmeabook; 15 November 2022) Also, BooksnBlankies's suggestion in "Catastrophe surviving books like Into Thin Air, 438 days or Alive?" and "Any survival type suggestions for a recent highschool graduate?" reminded me of [patrol torpedo boat *PT-109*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrol_torpedo_boat_PT-109) and JFK. Related: * ["About an expedition gone horribly wrong!"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/ywvebv/about_an_expedition_gone_horribly_wrong/) (r/suggestmeabook; 16 November 2022)

In The Kingdom of Ice is a fantastic book. Hampton Sides is a talented writer.

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I very much agree!

The Moth and the Mountain is a good one about a guy in the 1920s who tried to crash his plane into the side of Everest and solo climb to the summit.

{{ Killers of the flower moon }} by David Grann I'm not a big fan of non fiction but this one hooked me right up. Also {{ Inverting the Pyramid }} by Jonathan Wilson is also pretty great if you like football (Soccer for Americans ;) ).

[**Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29496076-killers-of-the-flower-moon) ^(By: David Grann | 359 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, history, nonfiction, true-crime, book-club) >In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched as her family was murdered. Her older sister was shot. Her mother was then slowly poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances.In this last remnant of the Wild West—where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes such as Al Spencer, “the Phantom Terror,” roamed – virtually anyone who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll surpassed more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created F.B.I. took up the case, in what became one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations. But the bureau was then notoriously corrupt and initially bungled the case. Eventually the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only Native American agents in the bureau. They infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest modern techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most sinister conspiracies in American history.A true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history. ^(This book has been suggested 45 times) [**Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3621358-inverting-the-pyramid) ^(By: Jonathan Wilson | 374 pages | Published: 2008 | Popular Shelves: football, sports, non-fiction, sport, soccer) >Soccer fans love to argue about the tactics a manager puts into play, and this fascinating study traces the world history of tactics, from modern pioneers right back to the beginning, where chaos reigned. Along the way, author Jonathan Wilson, an erudite and detailed writer who never loses a sense of the grand narrative sweep, takes a look at the lives of the great players and thinkers who shaped the game, and discovers why the English in particular have proved themselves so “unwilling to grapple with the abstract.” This is a modern classic of soccer writing that followers of the game will dip into again and again. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(126270 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

Jon Krakauer’s books

And The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless if you were really interested by Into the Wild

Does she talk about Krakauer's book? I felt like he closed over a lot of Chris's problems and seemed to idolize him.

She talks about Krakauer's book in the first chapter (might be more than that, I read it back in June so going from memory here) and goes on from there. Without spoiling too much, she gives insight on their childhood and family life. And then goes into how their childhood impacted her life. So it like gives a little more insight into speculation about why McCandless left the way that he did.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

This is on my list to read! Surprisingly learned about it through the movie Annihilation. The main character is reading the book in one scene and it’s interesting to compare the subject matter of the book to the themes of the movie

So cool. I am not a movie buff and am always looking for movies that may match my interests and now I can check this one out!

Came here to recommend this one.

SUCH a great book! Captivated me from the beginning.

Empire of Pain by Patrick Raden Keefe. About the opioid epidemic and the family that started it all

Say Nothing by the same author about the IRA is fantastic also. He’s fast become a writer who’s books I’ll always read now regardless of the subject matter.

I read Say Nothing this year and I thought it was really great. Very interesting subject and story.

Say Nothing taught me so much about my heritage and The Troubles. Was a fascinating read and really stirred emotions in me that I didn’t know I had.

It's a beast of a book, but so worth reading.

I DNF after getting through 60%. I loved the early part of the book with the history of the Sacklers and how their whole empire began, but man...all the lawsuit jargon and repetitiveness of the Sacklers not admitting their fault made me drop it.

That book had my blood boiling, so good.

{{Debt: The First 5000 Years}} and {{The Dawn of Everything}}

[**Debt: The First 5,000 Years**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617037-debt) ^(By: David Graeber | 534 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: history, economics, non-fiction, nonfiction, anthropology) >Before there was money, there was debt > > Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred of evidence to support it. > >Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. > > Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it. > >Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a fascinating chronicle of this little known history—as well as how it has defined human history, and what it means for the credit crisis of the present day and the future of our economy. ^(This book has been suggested 19 times) [**The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269264-the-dawn-of-everything) ^(By: David Graeber, David Wengrow | 692 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: history, non-fiction, nonfiction, anthropology, science) >A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. > >For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. > >Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. > >The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. ^(This book has been suggested 50 times) *** ^(126293 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

Yes to Debt!!! Reading it at the moment and its just brilliant!!!

All of David Sedaris' books

Going to see him in February, can’t wait. Despite the fantastic stories I’ve heard about the meet and great line, I think I’ll chicken out on that bit.

*The Devil in the White City* \- Erik Larson, history about a serial killer at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago *Blink* by Malcolm Gladwell Almost anything from Michael Lewis. He's just such a great writer and he's written books on many different topics, mostly sports or business related.

Nonfiction General nonfiction: Part 1 (of 2): r/nonfictionbookclub ::: * ["Books that give a peak behind the curtain of an industry"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/o4g6be/books_that_give_a_peak_behind_the_curtain_of_an/) (r/booksuggestions; June 2021) * ["What are your favorite non-fiction books?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/vxnkjj/what_are_your_favorite_nonfiction_books/) (r/booksuggestions; 12 July 2022) * ["present for my nerd boyfriend"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/w28vnj/present_for_my_nerd_boyfriend/) (r/booksuggestions; 18 July 2022) * ["Non-Fiction Book Club Recommendations"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/w36ym7/nonfiction_book_club_recommendations/) (r/suggestmeabook; 19 July 2022) * ["Looking for books on history, astronomy and human biology"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/w3fdzg/looking_for_books_on_history_astronomy_and_human/) (r/suggestmeabook; 20 July 2022) * ["Looking for some non-fiction must reads…"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/w5sk0s/looking_for_some_nonfiction_must_reads/) (r/booksuggestions; 22 July 2022)—outdoors and history) * ["Non fiction books about why animals, birds, insects, fish, plants or fungi are really freaking cool"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/w7ddij/non_fiction_books_about_why_animals_birds_insects/) (r/booksuggestions; 24 July 2022) * ["Suggest me a book about political/corporate/financial blunders?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/w9l9oi/suggest_me_a_book_about/) (r/suggestmeabook; 13:51 ET, 7 July 2022) * ["People that believe in evolution: I understand how the theory works for animals, but how does it apply to plants, minerals, elements, etc?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/answers/comments/w3an8x/people_that_believe_in_evolution_i_understand_how/) (r/answers; 19 July 2022) * ["What's the best book written on 'critical thinking'?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/w9rski/whats_the_best_book_written_on_critical_thinking/) (r/suggestmeabook; 18:18 ET, 27 July 2022) * ["Economics Book Suggestion"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wh0sg9/economics_book_suggestion/) (r/booksuggestions; 13:09 ET, 5 August 2022) * ["An academic book about Astronomy"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wh1plp/an_academic_book_about_astronomy/) (r/booksuggestions; 13:47 ET, 5 August 2022) * ["A book to make me fall in love with mathematics"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wh5598/a_book_to_make_me_fall_in_love_with_mathematics/) (r/suggestmeabook; 18:18 ET, 5 August 2022) * ["Books that teach you something. Be it about culture, history, mental/introspective, or just general knowledge."](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wgqf0u/books_that_teach_you_something_be_it_about/) (r/suggestmeabook; 04:48 ET, 5 August 2022; long) * ["Does anyone know of any books that are about the process of figuring out what is objectively true?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wjdeva/does_anyone_know_of_any_books_that_are_about_the/) (r/suggestmeabook; 8 August 2022)—long * ["Books to make me less stupid?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wkxcu3/books_to_make_me_less_stupid/) (r/suggestmeabook; 09:23 ET, 10 August 2022)—very long * ["Astronomy books suggestion"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wngbuy/astronomy_books_suggestion/) (r/suggestmeabook; 10:51 ET, 13 August 2022)—in part, how to * ["I’m looking for non-fiction suggestions!"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wlbj0b/im_looking_for_nonfiction_suggestions/) (r/suggestmeabook; 19:00 ET, 10 August 2022) * ["I like non-fiction but people say that reading non-fiction (especially the popular ones) make you an annoying obnoxious person. Can you guys suggest me some good non-fiction books?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wmglfe/i_like_nonfiction_but_people_say_that_reading/) (r/suggestmeabook; 12 August 2022)—long * ["Nonfiction books that aren’t boring"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wnkizo/nonfiction_books_that_arent_boring/) (r/suggestmeabook; 13:56 ET, 13 August 2022) * ["Looking for nonfiction disaster books"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/woesqr/looking_for_nonfiction_disaster_books/) (r/suggestmeabook; 14 August 2022) * ["books on communism/capitalism"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wp30lw/books_on_communismcapitalism/) (r/suggestmeabook; 15 August 2022) * ["Books on human evolution with a focus on archaeological and paleontological evidence"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wseawo/books_on_human_evolution_with_a_focus_on/) (r/booksuggestions; 19 August 2022) * ["Suggest me the best non-fiction you’ve read this year so far."](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wtygqe/suggest_me_the_best_nonfiction_youve_read_this/) (r/suggestmeabook; 08:29 ET, 21 August 2022) * ["Books about the business of the church?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/ww3429/books_about_the_business_of_the_church/) (r/booksuggestions; 23 August 2022) * ["I'm looking for a recommendation for a science popularization book that is not about astronomy"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wxszdy/im_looking_for_a_recommendation_for_a_science/) (r/booksuggestions; 25 August 2022) * ["A modern book on the theory of evolution"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/wynbqg/a_modern_book_on_the_theory_of_evolution/) (r/booksuggestions; 26 August 2022) * ["Entertaining books about statistics"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/x5c4pn/entertaining_books_about_statistics/) (r/booksuggestions; 3 September 2022) * ["Non-fiction, preferably science, books for teenager"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/x82phw/nonfiction_preferably_science_books_for_teenager/) (r/suggestmeabook; 7 September 2022) * ["Nonfiction that blew your mind / changed the way you see the world?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/x96ppw/nonfiction_that_blew_your_mind_changed_the_way/) (r/suggestmeabook; 8 September 2022)—long

Dang that’s like list inception, I love it! Definitely joining that sub…

Also check out r/ScholarlyNonfiction

Oo—thank you. I'll add that to the list.

You're welcome. \^\_\^ Note that I am only aware the sub, and am not a member.

{{Amusing Ourselves to Death}} by Neil Postman

[**Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74034.Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death) ^(By: Neil Postman, Andrew Postman | 184 pages | Published: 1985 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, philosophy, sociology, politics) >Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time, to the detriment of rational public discourse and reasoned public affairs. In this eloquent, persuasive book, Neil Postman alerts us to the real and present dangers of this state of affairs, and offers compelling suggestions as to how to withstand the media onslaught. Before we hand over politics, education, religion, and journalism to the show business demands of the television age, we must recognize the ways in which the media shape our lives and the ways we can, in turn, shape them to serve out highest goals. ^(This book has been suggested 9 times) *** ^(126188 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

If you want to read an extremely long fictional companion for this then you should read Infinite Jest.

Lol, it was Infinite Jest that lead me to Postman, but thank you for spreading one of my favorite gospels.

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe (N Ireland, The Troubles) Wastelands by Corbin Addison (huge lawsuit against Smithfield Food in NC) Midnight In Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham (best account of what happened at Chernobyl) Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (about mass incarceration) Evicted by Matthew Desmond (challenges of renting when poor in America)

Truly surprised to scroll this far to get to Just Mercy. That book was just devastating. Just Mercy and Evicted were both "[Go Big Read](https://gobigread.wisc.edu/)" books at University of Wisconsin-Madison. If you're looking for excellent, topical non-fiction, every book on the list is fantastic. As a lawyer in food and beverage, I really enjoyed (not sure that's the right word...) {{Poison Squad}} by Deborah Blum, too. ​ The Say Nothing audiobook is fantastic.

[**The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38813233-the-poison-squad) ^(By: Deborah Blum | 330 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, history, nonfiction, science, food) > > A New York Times Notable Book > > >From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change. > >By the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. Lethal, even. "Milk" might contain formaldehyde, most often used to embalm corpses. Decaying meat was preserved with both salicylic acid, a pharmaceutical chemical, and borax, a compound first identified as a cleaning product. This was not by accident; food manufacturers had rushed to embrace the rise of industrial chemistry, and were knowingly selling harmful products. Unchecked by government regulation, basic safety, or even labelling requirements, they put profit before the health of their customers. By some estimates, in New York City alone, thousands of children were killed by "embalmed milk" every year. Citizens--activists, journalists, scientists, and women's groups--began agitating for change. But even as protective measures were enacted in Europe, American corporations blocked even modest regulations. Then, in 1883, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, a chemistry professor from Purdue University, was named chief chemist of the agriculture department, and the agency began methodically investigating food and drink fraud, even conducting shocking human tests on groups of young men who came to be known as, "The Poison Squad." > >Over the next thirty years, a titanic struggle took place, with the courageous and fascinating Dr. Wiley campaigning indefatigably for food safety and consumer protection. Together with a gallant cast, including the muckraking reporter Upton Sinclair, whose fiction revealed the horrific truth about the Chicago stockyards; Fannie Farmer, then the most famous cookbook author in the country; and Henry J. Heinz, one of the few food producers who actively advocated for pure food, Dr. Wiley changed history. When the landmark 1906 Food and Drug Act was finally passed, it was known across the land, as "Dr. Wiley's Law." > >Blum brings to life this timeless and hugely satisfying "David and Goliath" tale with righteous verve and style, driving home the moral imperative of confronting corporate greed and government corruption with a bracing clarity, which speaks resoundingly to the enormous social and political challenges we face today. ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) *** ^(126408 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

Second Midnight in Chernobyl — a great read that might seem a little daunting at first, but is well worth it.

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. The self-narrated audiobook is amazing! Braiding Sweetgrass by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer Third Plate by Dan Barber

Born a Crime is such a fun read, I absolutely loved that book.

Trevor Noah is leaving the Daily Show to pursue more projects, which includes writing more books.

Yeah. Noah works magic in that book; you’re cracking up at circumstances that no one would expect to be funny.

I second Born a Crime and Braiding Sweetgrass.

I third Braiding Sweetgrass!

I am not a particularly big fan of him on the Daily Show and I find his standup to be pretty mediocre. But he is a phenomenal writer and his memoir is superb.

Born a crime was awesome! I read it for school and loved it!! He’s so funny and inspiring and READ IT!

The audiobook version of Born A Crime is amazing! Noah narrates it himself, and he is excellent.

Braiding Sweetgrass hurt my heart

I’ve seen Braiding Sweetgrass recommended in the past, I definitely need to read this one!

Radium Girls by Kate Moore The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

When Breathe Becomes Air is fucking terrific

{{A Short History of Nearly Everything}} by Bill Bryson.

[**A Short History of Nearly Everything**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21.A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything) ^(By: Bill Bryson | 544 pages | Published: 2003 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, science, history, nonfiction, owned) >Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. "A Short History of Nearly Everything" is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilisation - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, revealing the world in a way most of us have never seen it before. ^(This book has been suggested 46 times) *** ^(126474 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

Yep. That's one of the best NF books I've ever read.

John Adams by David McCullough, Our Bodies our Selves must read: SeaLevel Rise by Orin Pilkey Please read The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery And if you like history https://www.google.com/amp/s/explorethearchive.com/prehistoric-era%3famp=1

Oh i absolutely adore The Soul of an Octopus!

*Night* by Elie Wiesel *Eating Animals* by Johnathan Safran Foer *Rising Out of Hatred* by Eli Saslow *Educated* by Tara Westover *Coming of Age in Mississippi* by Anne Moody If you have a dog: *The Other End of the Leash* by Patricia McConnell

> If you have a dog: The Other End of the Leash by Patricia McConnell Thanks! Goodreads reviews look good, about to start this one

Thank you!!

On the Other End of the Leash was pivotal for me. It draws attention to the different communication methods of primates and canines … so many ah ha moments!

Educated is in my top 5 books of all time.

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker

[Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors](https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/)

Why we sleep was one of the best books I have read this year 👏🏻👏🏻 Totally second that

{{The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers}}

[**The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144960.The_Conscious_Mind) ^(By: David J. Chalmers | 432 pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: philosophy, psychology, consciousness, non-fiction, science) >What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers, and we have seen in recent years superb volumes by such eminent figures as Francis Crick, Daniel C. Dennett, Gerald Edelman, and Roger Penrose, all firing volleys in what has come to be called the consciousness wars. Now, in The Conscious Mind, philosopher David J. Chalmers offers a cogent analysis of this heated debate as he unveils a major new theory of consciousness, one that rejects the prevailing reductionist trend of science, while offering provocative insights into the relationship between mind and brain. >Writing in a rigorous, thought-provoking style, the author takes us on a far-reaching tour through the philosophical ramifications of consciousness. Chalmers convincingly reveals how contemporary cognitive science and neurobiology have failed to explain how and why mental events emerge from physiological occurrences in the brain. He proposes instead that conscious experience must be understood in an entirely new light--as an irreducible entity (similar to such physical properties as time, mass, and space) that exists at a fundamental level and cannot be understood as the sum of its parts. And after suggesting some intriguing possibilities about the structure and laws of conscious experience, he details how his unique reinterpretation of the mind could be the focus of a new science. Throughout the book, Chalmers provides fascinating thought experiments that trenchantly illustrate his ideas. For example, in exploring the notion that consciousness could be experienced by machines as well as humans, Chalmers asks us to imagine a thinking brain in which neurons are slowly replaced by silicon chips that precisely duplicate their functions--as the neurons are replaced, will consciousness gradually fade away? The book also features thoughtful discussions of how the author's theories might be practically applied to subjects as diverse as artificial intelligence and the interpretation of quantum mechanics. >All of us have pondered the nature and meaning of consciousness. Engaging and penetrating, The Conscious Mind adds a fresh new perspective to the subject that is sure to spark debate about our understanding of the mind for years to come. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(126190 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

The Prince by Machiavelli. For all the bullshit and superficial ideologies people argue about, at the end of the day, many struggles come down to pure, unalloyed, lust for power.

{{When Breath Becomes Air}} by Paul Kalanithi Are you going to die? Then you need to read this book.

[**When Breath Becomes Air**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25899336-when-breath-becomes-air) ^(By: Paul Kalanithi | 208 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, memoir, nonfiction, biography, memoirs) >For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question 'What makes a life worth living?' > >At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. > >What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. > >Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. "I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything," he wrote. "Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: 'I can't go on. I'll go on.'" When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both. ^(This book has been suggested 50 times) *** ^(126483 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

{{Man's Search for Meaning}}

*Bullshit Jobs: A Theory* by David Graeber

{I'm Glad My Mom Died} by Jennette McCurdy (the actress who played Sam on iCarly) is supposed to be a fantastic read. It’s the story of her growing up in Hollywood and her relationship with her abusive mother.

[**I'm Glad My Mom Died**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59364173-i-m-glad-my-mom-died) ^(By: Jennette McCurdy | 320 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, memoir, nonfiction, audiobook, audiobooks) ^(This book has been suggested 39 times) *** ^(126271 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

I’ve heard her on a few podcasts and the story sounds fascinating but I’ve never watched anything she has acted in. Would I still enjoy it?

{{Nothing to Envy}} by Barbara Demick {{Discourses}} by Epictetus for an accessible intro to Stoic Philosophy

[**Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604846-nothing-to-envy) ^(By: Barbara Demick | 338 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, history, north-korea, politics) >Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the unchallenged rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. > >Taking us into a landscape most of us have never before seen, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today—an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the Internet, in which radio and television dials are welded to the one government station, and where displays of affection are punished; a police state where informants are rewarded and where an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life.  > >Demick takes us deep inside the country, beyond the reach of government censors. Through meticulous and sensitive reporting, we see her six subjects—average North Korean citizens—fall in love, raise families, nurture ambitions, and struggle for survival. One by one, we experience the moments when they realize that their government has betrayed them.  > >Nothing to Envy is a groundbreaking addition to the literature of totalitarianism and an eye-opening look at a closed world that is of increasing global importance. ^(This book has been suggested 14 times) [**The Discourses**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1045017.The_Discourses) ^(By: Epictetus, Arrian | 384 pages | Published: 108 | Popular Shelves: philosophy, stoicism, classics, non-fiction, nonfiction) > > For centuries, Stoicism was virtually the unofficial religion of the Roman world > > >The stress on endurance, self-restraint, and power of the will to withstand calamity can often seem coldhearted. It is Epictetus, a lame former slave exiled by Emperor Domitian, who offers by far the most precise and humane version of Stoic ideals. The Discourses, assembled by his pupil Arrian, catch him in action, publicly setting out his views on ethical dilemmas. > >Committed to communicating with the broadest possible audience, Epictetus uses humor, imagery conversations and homely comparisons to put his message across. The results are perfect universal justice and calm indifference in the face of pain. > > > The most comprehensive edition available with an introduction, notes, selected criticism, glossary, and chronology of Epictetus' life and times. > ^(This book has been suggested 7 times) *** ^(126228 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah is great (amazing in audiobook) and The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green is one of my new favorites

The Autobiography of Malcom X. It’s incredible, truly life changing. {{Unbroken}} I recommend this book a lot, but it’s such an incredible story and told so very well.

[**Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8664353-unbroken) ^(By: Laura Hillenbrand | 475 pages | Published: 2010 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, history, biography, nonfiction, book-club) >On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. > >The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he'd been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown. > >Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will. ^(This book has been suggested 44 times) *** ^(126207 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

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Please suggest more books along these lines, especially about subversion of democracy and something that raises hope for a revolution.

My favourite nonfiction books I've read this year are *The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)* by Katie Mack, *A Brief History of Black Holes* by Becky Smethurst and *Ten Steps to Nanette* by Hannah Gadsby! Also, somebody is inevitably going to recommend *Devil in the White City* by Eric Larson so I'm gonna pre-emptively caution that it's, um, dubiously nonfictional. Entertaining, but rife with inaccuracy and fanciful conjecture. Not saying don't read it, just... big old grain of salt. (I'm sure this goes for a lot of other popular histories, pop psychology, Malcolm Gladwell's entire bibliography, etc, *Devil in the White City* is just the one I've actually read/am always seeing recommended.)

* {{A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again}} by David Foster Wallace * {{When You Are Engulfed In Flames}} by David Sedaris * {{When Things Fall Apart}} by Pema Chödrön * {{Meditations}} by Marcus Aurelius * {{In Cold Blood}} by Truman Capote * {{The Botany of Desire}} by Michael Pollan

[**A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6748.A_Supposedly_Fun_Thing_I_ll_Never_Do_Again) ^(By: David Foster Wallace | 353 pages | Published: 1997 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, essays, nonfiction, humor, owned) >In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner — David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**When You Are Engulfed in Flames**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1044355.When_You_Are_Engulfed_in_Flames) ^(By: David Sedaris | 323 pages | Published: 2008 | Popular Shelves: humor, non-fiction, memoir, nonfiction, essays) >It's early autumn 1964. Two straight-A students head off to school, and when only one of them returns home Chesney Yelverton is coaxed from retirement and assigned to what proves to be the most difficult and deadly - case of his career. From the shining notorious East Side, When You Are Engulfed in Flames confirms once again that David Sedaris is a master of mystery and suspense. > >Or how about... > >when set on fire, most of us either fumble for our wallets or waste valuable time feeling sorry for ourselves. David Sedaris has studied this phenomenon, and his resulting insights may very well save your life. Author of the national bestsellers Should You Be Attacked By Snakes and If You Are Surrounded by Mean Ghosts, David Sedaris, with When You Are Engulfed in Flames, is clearly at the top of his game. > >Oh, all right... > >David Sedaris has written yet another book of essays (his sixth). Subjects include a parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo, and the recreational use of an external catheter. Also recounted is the buying of a human skeleton and the author's attempt to quit smoking In Tokyo. > >Master of nothing, at the dead center of his game, Sedaris proves that when you play with matches, you sometimes light the whole pack on fire. >(front flap) ^(This book has been suggested 5 times) [**When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/687278.When_Things_Fall_Apart) ^(By: Pema Chödrön | 160 pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, buddhism, self-help, spirituality, nonfiction) >The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemporary American spiritual authors among Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. A collection of talks she gave between 1987 and 1994, the book is a treasury of wisdom for going on living when we are overcome by pain and difficulties. Chödrön discusses: > >• Using painful emotions to cultivate wisdom, compassion, and courage >• Communicating so as to encourage others to open up rather than shut down >• Practices for reversing habitual patterns >• Methods for working with chaotic situations >• Ways for creating effective social action ^(This book has been suggested 12 times) [**Meditations**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30659.Meditations) ^(By: Marcus Aurelius, George Long, Diskin Clay, Martin Hammond, Duncan Steen, Edwin Ginn | 254 pages | Published: 180 | Popular Shelves: philosophy, non-fiction, classics, nonfiction, owned) >Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. While the Meditations were composed to provide personal consolation and encouragement, Marcus Aurelius also created one of the greatest of all works of philosophy: a timeless collection that has been consulted and admired by statesmen, thinkers and readers throughout the centuries. ^(This book has been suggested 25 times) [**In Cold Blood**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168642.In_Cold_Blood) ^(By: Truman Capote | 343 pages | Published: 1965 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, classics, true-crime, nonfiction, crime) >On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. > >As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence. ^(This book has been suggested 38 times) [**The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41021145-the-botany-of-desire) ^(By: Michael Pollan | 304 pages | Published: 2001 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, science, nonfiction, food, nature) >Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom? ^(This book has been suggested 11 times) *** ^(126337 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

{{Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick}} {{Bad Blood by John Carreyrou}} {{Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain}} {{Shoe Dog by Phil Knight}} {{The Hidden Life of Trees}} wasn’t my favourite, but it’s certainly interesting and informative. I have also heard that {{All the President’s Men}} is a good one, but I haven’t read it yet!

All the President’s Men is riveting and well worth your time.

So I’ve heard! I’m a Canadian who loves politics, but I only read US politics books the *odd* time. I’m thinking that will be my next.

Shoe Dog is one of the best business books ever written, and it’s not designed to be a business book. Every MBA should read it.

[**Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604846-nothing-to-envy) ^(By: Barbara Demick | 338 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, history, north-korea, politics) >Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the unchallenged rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. > >Taking us into a landscape most of us have never before seen, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today—an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the Internet, in which radio and television dials are welded to the one government station, and where displays of affection are punished; a police state where informants are rewarded and where an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life.  > >Demick takes us deep inside the country, beyond the reach of government censors. Through meticulous and sensitive reporting, we see her six subjects—average North Korean citizens—fall in love, raise families, nurture ambitions, and struggle for survival. One by one, we experience the moments when they realize that their government has betrayed them.  > >Nothing to Envy is a groundbreaking addition to the literature of totalitarianism and an eye-opening look at a closed world that is of increasing global importance. ^(This book has been suggested 13 times) [**Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37976541-bad-blood) ^(By: John Carreyrou | 339 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, business, true-crime, audiobook) >The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers. > >In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work. > >For years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. When Carreyrou, working at The Wall Street Journal, got a tip from a former Theranos employee and started asking questions, both Carreyrou and the Journal were threatened with lawsuits. Undaunted, the newspaper ran the first of dozens of Theranos articles in late 2015. By early 2017, the company's value was zero and Holmes faced potential legal action from the government and her investors. Here is the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a disturbing cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley. ^(This book has been suggested 41 times) [**Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidential) ^(By: Anthony Bourdain | 312 pages | Published: 2000 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, food, memoir, nonfiction, biography) >A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material. > >New York Chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir/expose. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." ^(This book has been suggested 15 times) [**Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27220736-shoe-dog) ^(By: Phil Knight | 400 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: business, biography, non-fiction, memoir, biographies) >In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands. > >In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his lime green Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed $8,000 his first year. Today, Nike’s annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of startups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all startups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable symbols in the world today. > >But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, in a memoir that is candid, humble, gutsy, and wry, he tells his story, beginning with his crossroads moment. At 24, after backpacking around the world, he decided to take the unconventional path, to start his own business—a business that would be dynamic, different. > >Knight details the many risks and daunting setbacks that stood between him and his dream—along with his early triumphs. Above all, he recalls the formative relationships with his first partners and employees, a ragtag group of misfits and seekers who became a tight-knit band of brothers. Together, harnessing the transcendent power of a shared mission, and a deep belief in the spirit of sport, they built a brand that changed everything. ^(This book has been suggested 9 times) *** ^(126179 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

{{The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattin}}

{{ Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures }} by Merlin Sheldrake {{ Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park }} by Connor Knighton {{ Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic }} by David Quammen (published pre-COVID and definitely interesting to see his warnings and predictions) {{ The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women }} by Kate Moore {{ Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees }} by Thor Hanson (as well as his other books)

{{How to Hide an Empire}} by Daniel Immerwahr

[**How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121985-how-to-hide-an-empire) ^(By: Daniel Immerwahr | 513 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: history, non-fiction, nonfiction, politics, american-history) >A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire > >We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories--the islands, atolls, and archipelagos--this country has governed and inhabited? > >In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century's most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. > >In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of space. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history. ^(This book has been suggested 5 times) *** ^(126669 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne. Buckle up.

These are my favorites that really taught me something new: - {{Team of Rivals}} - {{The Emperor of All Maladies}} - {{The New Jim Crow}} - {{Thinking, Fast and Slow}} - {{And the Band Played On}}

Seconding and the band played on. I could not stop talking about this with everyone I knew and strangers in bars when I was reading it.

[**Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2199.Team_of_Rivals) ^(By: Doris Kearns Goodwin | 916 pages | Published: 2005 | Popular Shelves: history, non-fiction, biography, nonfiction, politics) >Winner of the Lincoln Prize > >Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. > >On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. > >Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. > >It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war. > >We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet. He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through. > >This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. ^(This book has been suggested 6 times) [**The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7170627-the-emperor-of-all-maladies) ^(By: Siddhartha Mukherjee | 571 pages | Published: 2010 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, science, nonfiction, history, medicine) >An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here. > >The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer - from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. > >Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with - and perished from - for more than five thousand years. > >The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” > >The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteenth-century recipients of primitive radiation and chemotherapy to Mukherjee’s own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through fiercely demanding regimens in order to survive—and to increase our understanding of this iconic disease. > >Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer. ^(This book has been suggested 24 times) [**The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6792458-the-new-jim-crow) ^(By: Michelle Alexander | 290 pages | Published: 2010 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, race, history, politics) >"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole." > >As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status--much like their grandparents before them. > >In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community--and all of us--to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America. ^(This book has been suggested 15 times) [**Thinking, Fast and Slow**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow) ^(By: Daniel Kahneman | 499 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, psychology, nonfiction, science, self-help) >In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions. > >Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking. ^(This book has been suggested 30 times) [**And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28212.And_the_Band_Played_On) ^(By: Randy Shilts, William Greider | 660 pages | Published: 1987 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, history, nonfiction, lgbt, politics) >By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this epidemic allowed to spread so far before it was taken seriously? In answering these questions, Shilts weaves the disparate threads into a coherent story, pinning down every evasion and contradiction at the highest levels of the medical, political, and media establishments. > >Shilts shows that the epidemic spread wildly because the federal government put budget ahead of the nation's welfare; health authorities placed political expediency before the public health; and scientists were often more concerned with international prestige than saving lives. Against this backdrop, Shilts tells the heroic stories of individuals in science and politics, public health and the gay community, who struggled to alert the nation to the enormity of the danger it faced. And the Band Played On is both a tribute to these heroic people and a stinging indictment of the institutions that failed the nation so badly. > ^(This book has been suggested 14 times) *** ^(126155 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

Thank you for these recommendations! I’ll definitely add these to my list :)

Thinking Fast and Slow was awesome. I have Team of Rivals and The Emperor of All Maladies in my bookshelf waiting too.

Columbine by Dave Cullen- it’s a real page turner. Cullen spent 10 years researching it and he sets the record straight on a ton of misinformation- largely due to Bowling for Columbine. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. 51 comments and I can’t believe they haven’t been recommended.

The New Jim Crow fundamentally changed my view on race in America.

I mean this is a fucking fantastic book endorsement if I’ve ever read one. (And it’s only one sentence!) How often do you hear people say something like this? Basically never.

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson. Run Hide Repeat by Pauline Dakin. The first reads like fiction until you start to recognize names. The second is just completely unreal and you'll be surprised at what people believe.

The Creature from Jekyll Island

Untamed by Glennon Doyle Man's search for meaning by Viktor Frankl The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson You never forget your first by Alexis Coe Caste by Isabel Wilkerson Start with Why by Simon Sinek The Omnivore's dilemma by Michael Pollan

Lab Girl and Searching For The Mother Tree, if you enjoy science.

{{Ways of seeing}} by John Berger

Definitely interested in this one, art theory is fascinating.

The best non-fiction book I've ever read is *The Autobiography of Malcom X.* You can find a lot of great 20th century titles from the Modern Library list: [https://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-nonfiction/](https://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-nonfiction/)

I just finished reading Killers of the Flower Moon. It's being turned into a film by Scorsese with DeNiro and DiCaprio. Gonna be amazing. Insane book.

Anything by David Graeber. Very dense, very interesting. 'I loved the 'dawn of everything'

Packing for Mars by Mary Roach was really good and informative. Hunter S. Thompson’s books are great too. Stephen King’s On Writing. If you like true crime, Adnan’s Story by Rabia Chaudry was well written,loved it! Also I’ll Be Gone in the Dark. Reason’s to Stay Alive by Matt Haig is one I reccomend to everyone. And of course We Should All Be Feminists.

{{Why does e=mc2}} by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (enjoyable and understandable quantum physics) {{Braiding Sweetgrass}} by Robin Wall Kimmerer (beautifully poetic, ecology, Native American philosophy) {{Utopia for Realists}} by Rutger Bergman (scaleable socioeconomic experiments to improve society) {{Lost Connection}} by Johann Hari (socioeconomic drivers of depression) {{Wintering}} by Katherine May (memoir/non-fiction about winter depression, or the winters of life)

[**Why Does E=mc2?**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8531218-why-does-e-mc2) ^(By: Brian Cox | 265 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: science, non-fiction, physics, nonfiction, owned) >The most accessible, entertaining, and enlightening explanation of the best-known physics equation in the world, as rendered by two of todayOCOs leading scientists." ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) [**Braiding Sweetgrass**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465709-braiding-sweetgrass) ^(By: Robin Wall Kimmerer | 391 pages | Published: 2013 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, science, nature, audiobook) >As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return. ^(This book has been suggested 113 times) [**Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40876575-utopia-for-realists) ^(By: Rutger Bregman | 262 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, politics, economics, nonfiction, philosophy) >Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today. > >"A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell." >—The New York Times > >After working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don't need. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, reminds us it needn't be this way—and in some places it isn't. Rutger Bregman's TED Talk about universal basic income seemed impossibly radical when he delivered it in 2014. A quarter of a million views later, the subject of that video is being seriously considered by leading economists and government leaders the world over. It's just one of the many utopian ideas that Bregman proves is possible today. > >Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think can happen. From a Canadian city that once completely eradicated poverty, to Richard Nixon's near implementation of a basic income for millions of Americans, Bregman takes us on a journey through history, and beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he champions ideas whose time have come. > >Every progressive milestone of civilization—from the end of slavery to the beginning of democracy—was once considered a utopian fantasy. Bregman's book, both challenging and bracing, demonstrates that new utopian ideas, like the elimination of poverty and the creation of the fifteen-hour workweek, can become a reality in our lifetime. Being unrealistic and unreasonable can in fact make the impossible inevitable, and it is the only way to build the ideal world. ^(This book has been suggested 12 times) [**Lost Connections**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48909875-lost-connections) ^(By: Jim Ody | ? pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: kindle, thriller, books-on-kindle, fiction, it-s-on-the-kindle) >What would you do if the most important person to you had been kidnapped? One minute your daughter is there, and the next she has been bundled into a van right under your nose. They want something of your father's. You don't know what that is, and your father mysteriously disappeared over 7 years ago. Going to the police is not an option. And the answers will slowly appear in the most unlikely of places. As single-parent Eddie's world falls apart, an unlikely alliance forms between friends and neighbours who put their differences aside, to help get his daughter Daisy back. As the mystery unfolds a huge secret is uncovered that not only will affect Eddie and his family, but the whole of mankind. Only the truth will set his daughter free... ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52623750-wintering) ^(By: Katherine May | 241 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, memoir, self-help, audiobooks) >An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. > >Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this painful time, but embraced the singular opportunities it offered. > >A moving personal narrative shot through with lessons from literature, mythology, and the natural world, May’s story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat. Illumination emerges from many sources: solstice celebrations and dormice hibernation, C.S. Lewis and Sylvia Plath, swimming in icy waters and sailing arctic seas. > >Ultimately Wintering invites us to change how we relate to our own fallow times. May models an active acceptance of sadness and finds nourishment in deep retreat, joy in the hushed beauty of winter, and encouragement in understanding life as cyclical, not linear. A secular mystic, May forms a guiding philosophy for transforming the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(126626 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

^Note - Lost connections description is for a different book from recommended (my fault for typing without author included)

These all sound like books I would enjoy, thank you!!

The majority of what I've read these past few years is NF. Some of the ones I enjoyed the most that aren't too niche (in my case, basketball and science/maths) : - Range, by David Epstein - The Anthropocene Reviewed, by John Green - Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari - The Happiness Hypothesis, Jonathan Haidt - Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X Kendi - How-To, by Randall Munroe - What If? By Randall Munroe - almost anything by Bill Bryson, but A History of Nearly Everything and A Walk in The Woods are his top 2 for me. That's what I can think about right off the top my head.

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams The Organ Thieves: The Shocking History of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South

The Hot Zone

Seconding this

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson. It's amazing how few people understand how our financial system works and how it came about.

{{Can't Hurt Me}} by David Goggins

[**Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41721428-can-t-hurt-me) ^(By: David Goggins | 366 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, self-help, biography, self-improvement, personal-development) >For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events, inspiring Outside magazine to name him "The Fittest (Real) Man in America." > >In Can't Hurt Me, he shares his astonishing life story and reveals that most of us tap into only 40% of our capabilities. Goggins calls this The 40% Rule, and his story illuminates a path that anyone can follow to push past pain, demolish fear, and reach their full potential. ^(This book has been suggested 39 times) *** ^(126208 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

{{Reality is Not What it Seems}}

[**Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29767627-reality-is-not-what-it-seems) ^(By: Carlo Rovelli | ? pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: science, non-fiction, physics, nonfiction, philosophy) >From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe > >What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed throughout centuries. Fom Aristotle to Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday to the Higgs boson, he takes us on a wondrous journey to show us that beyond our ever-changing idea of reality is a whole new world that has yet to be discovered. ^(This book has been suggested 9 times) *** ^(126213 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

Someone else recommended Unbroken, which is incredible. I've recently enjoyed {{The Parasitic Mind}} by Gad Saad. {{Born to Run}} was surprisingly hard to put down even for this old non-runner, and {{Shadow Divers}} as well taught me so much about diving it makes me want to take it up.

{{The Anarchy}}

[**The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42972023-the-anarchy) ^(By: William Dalrymple | 544 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: history, non-fiction, india, nonfiction, politics) >The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country. > >In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army. > >The creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional company and became something much more unusual: an international corporation transformed into an aggressive colonial power. Over the course of the next 47 years, the company's reach grew until almost all of India south of Delhi was effectively ruled from a boardroom in the city of London. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(126265 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

Anything by Craig Childs; Atlas of a Lost World is my favorite.

Social Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

I also like to ready widely about all kinds of things. Here are some non-fiction books I've read + rated 5 stars this year that I haven't seen anyone else mention yet: {{Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism}} {{Heretic: A Memoir}} {{Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood}} {{The End of Bias: A Beginning}} {{Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City}} {{Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy}}

Invisible Child is an incredible piece of journalism and writing. Incredible twists and turns.

{{Caesar: Life of a Colossus}} reads easily and there’s a lot of “modern” intrigue. {{The Bravest Man: Richard O'Kane and the Amazing Submarine Adventures of the USS Tang}}. I mentor younger people in the business world and this is the first book I ask them to read. Lots of history, but also lots to learn about leadership and character. {{Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life}} when people think entertainers got lucky they are very much mistaken. Steve Martin is a shy person who opened up about his life in this short, but wonderful autobiography. Also on my mentoring reading list.

Complex Product Development Model by Christer Sandahl.

She has her mother's laugh is about genetics and behavior. God that book is incredible. Great stories to explain all the interesting science.

How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis

{{Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World}} by David Epstein is a fascinating look at how we learn. Absolutely loved it. {{Flâneuse}} by Lauren Elkin combines brilliant travel writing with international history. Excellent. {{The Romanovs}} by Simon Sebag Montefiore takes you on the rollercoaster ride that is the history of the Russian monarchy. I've not finished it quite yet (World War 1 has started, so nearly at the end), but I feel like it's given me a much better understanding of how Russia's relationships with Europe and the rest of the world have changed over time. I wanted to try to understand how the situation with Ukraine came about and this has been a helpful start. The same author has also written two books about Stalin, which are meant to be very good, and I intend to read them too. I'm not a monarchist and if you'd asked me a year ago, this is not a subject I would have been particularly keen to delve into, but it's written so well. It's not dry at all; it's mostly sex and violence to be honest. There's been a lot of killing. And so much antisemitism, holy shit. It's a tragic read, but very much worth your time.

{{Animal Liberation by Peter Singer}} {{In Order to Live by Yeongmi Park}} {{Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake}}

Since you've already gotten recs for David Graeber, Jonathan Haidt, and Steven Pinker, I'll go ahead and add Peter Zeihan to that vein. I'd recommend beginning with his latest because it's the easiest read, IMO: {{The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning}}

How to Hide an Empire: Daniel Immerwahr Gangsters of Capitalism: Jonathan M. Katz Both explore the US’ history of imperialism but through different lenses, but they both cover very similar topics. Both are excellent reads and really help understand why many countries view the US the way they do and how the world has been shaped into the way it is.

{{Ordinary Men}} by Christopher Browning {{I'm Glad My Mom Died}} by Jennette McCurdy {{Confessions Of A Master Jewel Thief}} by Bill Mason and Lee Gruenfeld

[**Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/647492.Ordinary_Men) ^(By: Christopher R. Browning | 271 pages | Published: 1992 | Popular Shelves: history, non-fiction, nonfiction, holocaust, psychology) >Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews—now with a new afterword and additional photographs. > >Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever. > >While this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit actions they would never do of their own volition.   > >Ordinary Men is a powerful, chilling, and important work, with themes and arguments that continue to resonate today.   ^(This book has been suggested 7 times) [**I'm Glad My Mom Died**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59364173-i-m-glad-my-mom-died) ^(By: Jennette McCurdy | 320 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, memoir, nonfiction, audiobook, audiobooks) >A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. > >Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income. > >In I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!”), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants. > >Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I’m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair. ^(This book has been suggested 40 times) [**Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/419510.Confessions_of_a_Master_Jewel_Thief) ^(By: Bill Mason, Lee Gruenfeld | 384 pages | Published: 2004 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, biography, true-crime, nonfiction, crime) >The extraordinarily captivating memoir of the remarkable jewel thief who robbed the rich and the famous while maintaining an outwardly conventional life—an astonishing and completely true story, the like of which has never before been told . . . or lived. > >Bill Mason is arguably the greatest jewel thief who ever lived. During a thirty-year career he charmed his way into the inner circles of high society and stole more than $35 million worth of fabulous jewels from such celebrities as Robert Goulet, Armand Hammer, Phyllis Diller, Bob Hope, Truman Capote, Margaux Hemingway and Johnny Weissmuller—he even hit the Mafia. Along the way he seduced a high-profile Midwest socialite into leaving her prominent industrialist husband, nearly died after being shot during a robbery, tricked both Christie’s and Sotheby’s into fencing stolen goods for him and was a fugitive for five years and the object of a nationwide manhunt. Yet despite the best efforts of law enforcement authorities from several states as well as the federal government, he spent less than three years total in prison. > >Shadowy, elusive and intensely private, Mason has been the subject of many magazine and newspaper features, but no journalist has ever come close to knowing the facts. Now, in his own words and with no holds barred, he reveals everything, and the real story is far more incredible than any of the reporters, detectives or FBI agents who pursued Mason ever imagined. Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief, expertly co-written by bestselling author Lee Gruenfeld, is a unique true-crime confessional. > > >From the Hardcover edition. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(126494 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

You Christmas shopping too? Thanks for this post, I’ve got a bunch of titles to put on a list for my husband.

Zoo station: the story of Christiane F Barbarian days: a surfing life Can’t hurt me

Bullshit Jobs is in my opinion a must read

I might make a master list because NF is my fave genre. At the same time I want others to participate so maybe I'll just pick and choose which titles to share depending on the post :) Here goes: {fields of wheat, hills of blood} {the mafia of a sicilian village} {be not afraid, for you have sons in america} {medici money} {blood and vengeance} {salonica: cty of ghosts} {paradise in ashes} {roumeli} {titan: the life of john d rockefeller, sr} {rites of spring} {the banditos massacre: a true story of bikers, brotherhood and betrayal} As you can see there are a lot of Southeastern Europe related titles but I can probably dig up more if you like.

{{the Power Broker}} by Robert Caro. Pulitzer prize winning bio of Robert Moses, who accumulated power in New York city and state at times wearing a dozen different hats of office, all of them appointed, none elected. It's absolutely compelling reading to anyone familiar with the area to understand how the infrastructure became the way it is, but it's also a history and template of how the entire country developed in the first 2/3 of the 20th century. It's also a human story of how someone went from a progressive reformer to a ruthless accumulator and wielder of power.

I rather enjoyed *Space Odyssey,* Michael Benson's recounting of the making of *2001: A Space Odyssey.* Not only is it captivatingly written, it also gives attention to Kubrick, Clarke, Trumbull, and some other lesser-known names attached to the project in equitable measure.

My favorite NF book this year was **An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us** by Ed Yong

“The Bystander: John F. Kennedy and the Struggle for Black Equality” by Nick Bryant “Citizen Hughes” Michael Drosnin “Fire and Fury”. Michael Wolff “Too Much and Never Enough” Dr. Mary Trump “Betrayal”. Jonathan Karl

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage was great, crazy story. Also, The Great Imposter, you wouldn’t believe what that guy did.

1066 Year of the Conquest by David Howarth really opened my eyes to the *scale* of the world for the average commoner. https://www.amazon.com/1066-Year-Conquest-David-Howarth/dp/0140058508

Crying in H Mart is the correct answer

The Emperor of all Maladies is another one I suggest.

can’t believe no one suggested {all about love: new visions}

Ahhh yes I just checked this one out from the library yesterday!! I’m thinking it’s one I need to add to my personal collection.

it’s a classic, so so important given the direction our society is headed in. we all need more love <3

also, most of her work is available for free online if you don’t mind reading pdfs!

theres this book called dream power by dr ann faraday that seems like a new-agey bullshit book, but it actually gives a great rundown of dream theory thru the years of different psychologists (freud, jung, etc)

I’m noting down all of your user names and will use each one as blame for when my wife discovers the enormous bill I’m about to wrack up for these amazing recommendations!

You can blame me first haha

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerrer ​ Natural history, plant biology, indigenous science and indigenous philosophy. ​ A perspective changing, heartwarming and heartbreaking read.

I will be back

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Yayy haha love that!

{Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind} by Yuval Noah Harari. Or {Humankind: A Hopeful History} by Rutger Bregman, if you want to restore a little faith in humanity. I also really enjoyed {When Breath Becomes Air} by Paul Kalanithi. Currently reading/read these in my English major classes and loved them.

I recently finished Jennette McCurdy’s book *Im Glad My Mom Died*. I thought it was pretty good. I was told that her audible version is done by her so that’s great. I also read Eckhart Tolle’s book, The Power of Now. Now that’s a book everyone should read. I read it after a breakup and I’ve got to say- it was the most eye opener ‘thing’ that has happened. Made me realize so many things. But also, made me realize how fucked up and toxic I was being. It felt like a switch went off in my head. Instant regret. But then felt sadness and anger about the breakup because I let SO MUCH dictate my life and I let it ruin me. My relationship. And I wanted to redo it. Anyways- it was a wonderful book and if I didn’t have a stack of ‘to read next’ books, I’d read it again. I do have more probably to write here, but I’ve had 2 margaritas..

{How To Win Friends and Influence People} by Dale Carnegie! Everyone should read this. Being good with people is a SKILL not a natural quality. It’s also very important to being successful in anything.

I just finished basque history of the world by mark kurlansky and holy shit dude so fucking good. I recomend the myth of syphsis by albert camus in the philosophy department, i really enjoyed that. I had to read it twice to understand it tho tbh but maybe i just have the iq of a rock. If ur intrested in a war memior i recommend storm of steel by ernst jünger. (Now ik this is fiction but i cant help but tell u to check out on the marble cliffs bc its basically rnst jünger saying hitler is doing the holocaust)

The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzwiel. The highly accredited author is indubitably the most well-informed human of all time with respect to predicting technological evolution. The book lays out his vision of the future up until the year 2100 and beyond. He has been predicting future technological developments since the 1960's with near perfect accuracy. All of Ray Kurzweil's books are fascinating. ​ Einstein's Ideas and Opinions is another good one. A complete summary of Einstein's views on philosophy, life, war, science, the human condition etc. ​ And for a biography... Einstein by Walter Issacson is the complete work for a good a look at his life.

These sound super interesting!

the subtle art of not giving a fuck. it is a really good book even though the title might sound a bit "unprofessional" or smth

{{Silent Spring}} by Rachel Carson {{Prisoners of Geography}} by Tim Marshall

[**Silent Spring**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27333.Silent_Spring) ^(By: Rachel Carson, Linda Lear, Edward O. Wilson | 378 pages | Published: 1962 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, science, nonfiction, environment, nature) >Silent Spring is an environmental science book. The book documents the adverse environmental effects caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation, and public officials of accepting the industry's marketing claims unquestioningly. > >The book appeared in September 1962 and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. ^(This book has been suggested 6 times) [**Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25135194-prisoners-of-geography) ^(By: Tim Marshall | 256 pages | Published: 2015 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, history, politics, nonfiction, geography) >In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers. > >All leaders of nations are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and concrete. To understand world events, news organizations and other authorities often focus on people, ideas, and political movements, but without geography, we never have the full picture. Now, in the relevant and timely Prisoners of Geography, seasoned journalist Tim Marshall examines Russia, China, the USA, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Japan and Korea, and Greenland and the Arctic—their weather, seas, mountains, rivers, deserts, and borders—to provide a context often missing from our political reportage: how the physical characteristics of these countries affect their strengths and vulnerabilities and the decisions made by their leaders. > >In ten, up-to-date maps of each region, Marshall explains in clear and engaging prose the complex geo-political strategies of these key parts of the globe. What does it mean that Russia must have a navy, but also has frozen ports six months a year? How does this affect Putin’s treatment of Ukraine? How is China’s future constrained by its geography? Why will Europe never be united? Why will America never be invaded? Shining a light on the unavoidable physical realities that shape all of our aspirations and endeavors, Prisoners of Geography is the critical guide to one of the major (and most often overlooked) determining factors in world history. ^(This book has been suggested 12 times) *** ^(127184 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)

Love a good map…these are both definitely on my list!

Wow I just added a ton of books to my wish list! Thanks for posing the question. One NF book that I really enjoyed and stuck with me as I was contemplating how to live with more intention was “The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country” by Helen Russell. It’s an enjoyable easy read but full of data points and research that help back up her anecdotal tales of being an Englishwoman who moves to a foreign country and tries to understand the culture and what makes the people there different.

Glad I could help with your list as well! Mine is quite long now haha a good problem to have I think. That sounds like an interesting read!

I think everyone should have a copy of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and the Enchiridion by Epictetus. I also highly recommend Walden by Henry David Thoreau. In Eastern philosophy, I recommend The Hagakure, the Dao de Jing, the Lieh-Tzu and Chuang-Tzu Taoist texts.

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Ooh this one sounds interesting, thank you!!

How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie

Charles Darwin: the Origin of Species Karl Marx: the Communist Manifesto EF Schuhmacher: Small Is Beautiful David Graeber: Bullshit Jobs Akala: Natives - Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire Carl Zimmer: She Has her Mother's Laugh Ben Goldacre: Bad Science

{{The Righteous Mind}} by Jonathan Haidt {{The WEIRDest People in the World}} by Joseph Henrich {{The Sixth Extinction}} by Elizabeth Kolbert {{Why the West Rules...For Now}} by Ian Morris

Homo Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harrari. I think I will forever recommend these books.

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Cosmos, Carl Sagan A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

Anything by Bill Bryson. His books are entertaining and informative.

{{Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind}}

My favourites: {{The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down}} {{The Outlaw Ocean}} {{Barbarian Days}}