Non-Fiction Book Recommendations
Each month we ask our Facebook followers for a book or series recommendation based on a particular genre or similar parameters – and then print the answers in our mid-month newsletter.
I thought it would be a good idea to have a separate page listing these, as I use it as a reference guide often.
This list is of the Non-Fiction Book Recommendations which was first posted in the July 2021 Newsletter.
At this website we primarily are focused on fiction books, but that doesn’t mean we don’t enjoy a great non-fiction book as well. There is a lot that we can learn from non-fiction books and it is good to read one in between all of the fiction that we consume. Our readers gave some great recommendations including some that were new to me.
If you have any recommendations of great non-fiction books, please let us know in the comments below!
Non-Fiction Book Recommendations:
- Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
- Lady Bluebeard by William C. Anderson
- An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson
- Lessons from Lucy by Dave Barry
- Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The Meaning of Rice by Michael Booth
- I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt
- The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
- The China Study by T. Colin Campbell
- Apple Pie, An Autobiography by Rodney Chow
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Land of the Pharaohs by Leonard Cottrell
- A Rip in Heaven by Jeanine Cummins
- Dreams of Africa in Alabama by Sylviane Diouf
- The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
- The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan
- The Woman Who Wasn’t There by Robin Gaby Fisher
- Nine Pints by Rose George
- No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders by David Grann
- The Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- Here Comes The Sun, The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison by Joshua Greene
- Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
- Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed by Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos
- Enemy of All Mankind by Steven Johnson
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta by Mother Teresa and Brian Kolodiejchuk
- Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
- Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
- Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- Dead Wake by Erik Larson
- The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
- The Premonition by Michael Lewis
- Tom Seaver, A Terrific Life by Bill Madden
- Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II by Adam Makos
- West with the Night by Beryl Markham
- McCarthy’s Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland by Pete McCarthy
- Eleanor by David Michaelis
- All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
- Race Against Time by Jerry Mitchell
- The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
- The European Discovery of America by Samuel Eliot Morison
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
- Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
- If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood by Gregg Olsen
- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
- Rabbit Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time by Doris Pilkington
- The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
- A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
- What Unites Us by Dan Rather
- The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
- Peacebunny Island, an autobiography by Caleb Smith
- I Got a Monster by Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
- Educated by Tara Westover
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Fire the Landscaper by Phil Williams
- A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester
- Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester
- The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
- The Interpretation of the New Testament 1861-1986 by Stephen Neill and Tom Wright
- Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf
- A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Just finished David Grann’s latest. The Wager.
British Empire on the rise. Spanish Empire in decline. Command of the seas, shipwreck…great telling of amazing events.