The Johnstown Flood
David McCullough
4.6 on Amazon
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Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
Adam Makos
4.8 on Amazon
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Erik Larson
4.5 on Amazon
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The Liars' Club: A Memoir
Mary Karr
4.2 on Amazon
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Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Huey P. Newton , Ho Che Anderson, et al.
4.8 on Amazon
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The Water Is Wide: A Memoir
Pat Conroy , William Keyserling, et al.
4.6 on Amazon
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Casey Cep
4.3 on Amazon
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Pop!: The Invention of Bubble Gum
Meghan McCarthy
4.8 on Amazon
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader (Harris Classics)
Marcus Aurelius and James Harris
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001
Garrett M. Graff, full cast, et al.
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Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Steve Sheinkin
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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
Frank McCourt , Brooke Zimmer, et al.
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We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young: Ia Drang—The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway
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Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture
Annelise Heinz
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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett
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barbeonMay 9, 2020
Another great book about WWII is Citizens of London by Lynne Olson.
One of the best books I've read recently is Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads that fills in the gaps of history for Westerners. Jaw-dropping details on almost every page--such as the real meaning of the Italian greeting ciao ("I am your slave") because Italian ports were the ceneter of the Roaman slave trade--they had to import 450,000-500,000 per year to keep the empire humming...and the origin of the word slave from the Slavs who were captured by the red-haired Vikings as they moved south...knowns as the Russes, who became known as the Russians..
some others--
The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone
anything by Erik Larson but especially Isaac's Storm (about the Galveston hurricane of 1900) and In the Garden of Beasts (about the American ambassort to 1930s Nazi Germany)
Travels with Herodotus and Shah of Shas by Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum
Parisians by Graham Robb