lynn Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 for myself. No particular preference I just need a list to go by. TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Waiter Rant. Art of the Public Grovel. any history or travel book - I love to cruise the new book section of the library and just pull anything interesting off the shelves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza This is an incredibly moving book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughCollie Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horowitz (history of the Americas before Columbus) (I LOVED this!) The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman (how the world became a global economy) Tara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Virginia Dawn Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 One I recommended to my son recently: Code Talker It's about the role of the Navajos in WW2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritAnnia Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Have you read any by Erik Larson? I'm currently reading Thunderstruck and enjoying it very much. It has the flow of a fictional story but is a real life account of Marconi's work on wireless telegraphy coinciding with Dr. Crippen's arrest for the murder of his wife. Is this the sort of non-fiction you meant, or are you thinking more along the lines of reference books on particular topics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNC Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 I'm reading two really good ones! Basic Economic, Thomas Sowell Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene Night by Elie Wiesel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver Hubby and I enjoyed this one, too - our son had it as part of required summer reading for an AP English class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paisley Hedgehog Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIch elle Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 I LOVED this book - big belly laughs and lots of learning too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Social Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyej Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Uncle Tungsten Anything by David McCullough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie in Austin Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Have you read any by Erik Larson? I'm currently reading Thunderstruck and enjoying it very much. It has the flow of a fictional story but is a real life account of Marconi's work on wireless telegraphy coinciding with Dr. Crippen's arrest for the murder of his wife. Is this the sort of non-fiction you meant, or are you thinking more along the lines of reference books on particular topics? LOVE Larson! Devil in the White City is excellent, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 (edited) Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls 1776 by David McCollough The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Galileo's Daughter and Longitude, both by Dava Sobel Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond And, it's not non-fiction, but Dancer by Colum McCann is a semi-fictionalized biography of Rudolf Nureyev & was an interesting book to read. Edited October 22, 2008 by Stacia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellifera Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 I have really enjoyed David McCullough's books and also Barbara Tuchman's books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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