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Non-fiction covers such a variety of things. It is fun to read and it is inspiring. It is often poignant and difficult, but rewarding. It teaches us, it sends us into action, it makes us aware. What are your favorite non-fiction books?
My list (Some of the books are “based on” but I put them here as non-fiction because of the research).
1. Diane Ackerman
An Alchemy of Mind
Deep Play
A Slender Thread
The Zookeeper’s Wife
2. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre
3. Stephen Ambrose
Citizen Soldier
D Day
Wild Blue
4. And There Was Light: Autobiography of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance by Jacques Lusseyran
my bookflurries review
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5. And Yet, I Am Here by Halina Nelken
6. Frank McCourt
Angela’s Ashes
‘Tis
Teacher Man
7. Al Gore
Assault on Reason
Our Choice
8. Baghdad Burning I and II by Riverbend
(I have not heard anything more from Riverbend since she left Iraq. Have any of you?)
9. James McPherson
Battle Cry of Freedom
Hallowed Ground
10. Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks
11. Bill of Wrongs by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
12. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
13. Taylor Branch
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
14. Bravest Battle: 28 Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Dan Kurzman
15. Vera Brittain
Testament of Youth
Testament of Experience
16. Brother, I Am Dying by Edwidge Danticat
17. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
18. The Canoe Boys by Alastair Dunnett
19. Cat from Hue by John Laurence
20. Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See by Robert Kurson
21. Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy by Donald R. Burgett
22. The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet
23. Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner, memoir Germany 1914-1934
24. Don’t Call It Night by Amos Oz
25. Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
26. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parkerand the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne
27. Richard Feynman
Surely You Are Joking, Mr. Feynman
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Also the book by his daughter with pictures
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track by Michelle Feynman
28. Jozef Garlinski
Fighting Auschwitz
The Survival of Love
29. Gettysburg by Stephen Sears
30. Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Neil Peart
31. Eugenia Ginzburg
Journey into the Whirlwind
Within the Whirlwind
32. Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
33. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
34. To the Castle and Back by Vaclav Havel
35. Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley
36. Homer Hickam
Rocket Boys
The Coalwood Way
Sky of Stone
37. High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver (essays)
38. Hiroshima by John Hersey
39. Gabrielle Lusser Rico
Writing the Natural Way
Pain and Possibility
40. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
41. A Year in the Life of Shakespeare (1599) by James Shapiro
42. Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt
43. An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art
44. Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America’s Greatest Spy…Virginia Hall by Judith Pearson
45. Wild Trees by Richard Preston
46. Will Eisner’s New York with into by Neil Gaiman (graphic) by Will Eisner
47. Elie Wiesel
Night
Dawn
48. White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickenson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple
49. 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart
50. What Is the What by Dave Eggers, memoir based on the story of the Lost Boys of the Sudan and Valentino Achak Deng
51. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
52. A Pirate of Exquisite Mind bio of William Dampier by Diana and Michael Preston
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
53. Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire
54. Voyager by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yaeger with Phil Patton
55. Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21rst Century by Michio Kaku
56. A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
57. Tell Me Another Morning by Zdena Berger
58. Rory Stewart
Places in Between (Afghanistan)
Prince of Marshes (Iraq)
59. Small Woman by Gladys Aylward
60. Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
61. Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb (Afghanistan)
62. A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler, by Jason Roberts about James Holman
63. Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
64. Sarah Morgan, Diary...ed. Charles East (Civil War)
65. An Ordinary Man…autobio of Paul Rusesabagina with Tom Zoellner (Rwanda)
66. William Least-Heat Moon
River-Horse
Blue Highways
67. The Righteous by Martin Gilbert
68. An American Heroine in The French Resistance: The Diary and Memoir of Virginia D’Albert-Lake edited by Judy Barrett Litoff
69. Resistance: A Woman’s Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France by Agnes Humbert 1894-1963
70. Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa’s City of Gold by Frank Kryza
71. Livia Bitton-Jackson
I Have Lived a Thousand Years
My Bridges of Hope
72. In Harm’s Way by Doug Stanton
73. In the Sea there are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari by Fabio Geda
74. John Adams by David McCullough
75. Lake with No Name: A True Story of Love and Conflict in Modern China by Diane Wei Liang (Tiananmen Square)
76. Madeleine L’Engle
A Circle of Quiet: A Crosswick Journal
The Irrational Season: A Crosswicks Journal
Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother: A Crosswicks Journal
Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
77. Isak Dinesen
Letters from Africa
Out of Africa
78. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
79. Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas by Jerry Dennis
80. London 1945 by Maureen Waller
81. Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh by Irving Stone
82. Rickenbacker: An Autobiography by Edward V. Rickenbacker
83. The Man Who Would Be King : The First American in Afghanistan by Ben Macintyre
84. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
85. Nazi Hunter by Alan Levy
86. Nazi Officer’s Wife by Edith Beer
87. Nella Last’s War by Nella Last (war diary age 49) ed by Richard Broad and Suzie Fleming
88. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
89. No god but God by Reza Aslan
90. No End Save Victory: Perspectives on World War II
Robert Cowley (Editor)
91. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
92. Prince Borghese’s Trail or Peking to Paris : 10,000 Miles over Two Continents, Four Deserts and the Roof of the World in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge by Genevieve Obert
93. Promises to Keep by Joe Biden
94. Thunder Below: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in WW II by Admiral Eugene B. Fluckey
95. Titanic Survivor by Violet Jessup
96. Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth
97. Virginia Woolf by Quentin Bell
98. Iberia by James Michener
99. Eudora Welty: Biography by Suzanne Marrs
100. The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals ed. Patrick Hart & Jonathan Montaldo (Thomas Merton)
101. In an Instant…Lee and Bob Woodruff memoir
102. Gerda Weissman Klein
All But My Life
The Hours After
103. Essays of Montaigne by Michel De Montaigne
What favorite books are on your list?
What books are on your TBR pile?
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