History Non fiction?

Consolation
Fri, 09 Oct 2015 21:33:29 +0000

For audiobooks, anything where David McCullough reads his own work is a sure winner.

Many books I’ve read and enjoyed have been recommended here, but one writer I haven’t seen mentioned is John McPhee. All of his books are interesting, and many are fascinating. His work over the last couple of decades has centered on geology, which you may or may not find particularly interesting, but his earlier stuff such as The Pine Barrens, Levels of the Game, Encounters With the Archdruid, and Coming into the Country are still great also. I would also recommend books by Tracy Kidder, such as House, Among School Children, or The Soul of a New Machine.

An absolute page-turner is Richard Preston’s book about Ebola, The Hot Zone.

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger is another, as is just about anything by Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, Under the Banner of Heaven).