give me your best non-fiction books
extra points for being original and metioning something not in the wikia/sticky/charts
>>7634526
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Consider the Lobster
>>7634526
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
by Alistair Horne
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century, Revised Edition, with a New Preface
by Ross E. Dunn
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
by Svetlana Alexievich
To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance
by Chris Leuchars
The Conquest of the Incas
by John Hemming
Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon
by John Hemming
My last 6 since october.
Incas and Bitter End were the best, Chernobyl was full of feels tho.
The Kon Tiki expedition
The Golden Spruce
The Selfish gene
The Plantagenets by Dan something
Endurance by Lansing
All were really interesting.
>>7634706
>voices from Chernobyl
That's been on my list for a while
>>7634807
I read it in 2 days, it was short and flowed well. When she got the award alot of anons shitted on the literary merits of her work, but it was really an artistic and well edited book of memories.
Also it is human horror at its worst.