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West: The American Cowboy

Anouk Masson Krantz

4.9 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Fingerprints of the Gods: The Quest Continues

Graham Hancock and Audible Studios

4.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

4.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Coming into the Country

John McPhee

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance

Christopher McDougall, Nicholas Guy Smith, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Randolph Hogan

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Yosemite: The Complete Guide: Yosemite National Park (Color Travel Guide)

James Kaiser

4.9 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Japan: The Cookbook

Nancy Singleton Hachisu

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

A Table: Recipes for Cooking and Eating the French Way

Rebekah Peppler and Joann Pai

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Christopher Moore, Fisher Stevens, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Thomas Guide: Los Angeles and Orange Counties Street Guide 55th Edition (Thomas Guide Los Angeles & Orange Counties Street Guide (Pro))

Rand McNally

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Robert Macfarlane

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Blue Highways: A Journey into America

William Least Heat Moon and William Least Heat-Moon

4.5 on Amazon

1 HN comments

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

Tembi Locke

4.5 on Amazon

1 HN comments

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lkrychonDec 18, 2018

I'm going to plug a few great non-fiction books that are easy(ish) to read and deep on content. I'm sure there are a lot more out there.

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Coming Into the Country - John McPhee

The Unwinding - George Packer

Anything by James C Scott (Thinking Like a State, The Art of Not Being Governed)

The Righteous Mind - John Haidt

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins (Regardless of how you feel about his current public persona, this book published in 1976 is an absolute classic)

hcrisponDec 4, 2018

I enjoyed Curve of Binding Energy, and also Coming Into The Country, which is about the history, people, and geography of Alaska. Lots of interesting anecdotes: tourists fishing in pristine rivers, prospectors panning for gold using bulldozers, wilderness-seekers struggling to surviving the brutal winters off-grid. I also learned that Juneau may be the wind-whipped capital but it is really more similar to warmer parts of Canada. Anchorage is the grimy urban center, a port city more deserving of Alaskan fame. Neither really represent the forbidding interior of the state.
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