Great Non-Fiction Ive Read
Discover a curated list of great non-fiction books I've read, featuring insightful titles across various genres. Expand your knowledge with these must-read recommendations!
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Columbine
by Dave Cullen
On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma City-style, …
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Tears in the Darkness
by Michael Norman
This major new work about World War II exposes the myths of military heroism as shallow and inadequate. "Tears in the Darkness" makes clear, with …
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The Day of Battle
by Rick Atkinson
In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Atkinson tells the harrowing story …
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The Looming Tower
by Lawrence Wright
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11” (The New York Times Book Review), this definitive …
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House to House
by David Bellavia
A nominee for the Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Service Cross, Sgt. Bellavia tells the raw, compelling story of how he miraculously survived a …
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Perfect Soldiers
by Terry McDermott
The attacks of September 11, 2001, were a calamity on a scale few had imagined possible. In their aftermath, we exaggerated the men who perpetrated …
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Shadow Divers
by Robert Kurson
Recounts the 1991 discovery of a sunken German U-boat by two recreational scuba divers, tracing how they devoted the following six years to researching the …
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Breaking Blue
by Timothy Egan
In 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the midwestern …
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Under and Alone
by William Queen
In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a …
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Lone Wolf
by Maryanne Vollers
He was supposed to be dead. Five years after Eric Rudolph escaped into the mountains of North Carolina, the FBI had long since abandoned the …
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Stalin
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This widely acclaimed biography of a Soviet dictator and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding …
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Positively Fifth Street
by James McManus
A chronicle of life in Las Vegas investigates the murder of poker player Ted Binion, revealing a secret world of kinky sex, black magic, and …
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The First Fall Classic
by Mike Vaccaro
Traces how the 1912 competition between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Giants elevated the World Series to a national obsession, describing the …
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The First Family
by Mike Dash
For Sopranos watchers, Godfather aficionados, and all other Mafia buffs, the gripping story of the birth of the Italian Mafia in America. Before the Five …