Me again with a few more favs for non-fiction sub-categories I didn’t see a lot of mentions for:
Non-fiction (Animal/Environment):
Soul of an Octopus (Sy Montgomery)
Birding to Change the World (Trish O’Kane)
Running with Sherman (Christopher McDougall)
Non-fiction (Sports - even if you aren’t sporty):
Good for a Girl (Lauren Fleshman)
A Most Beautiful Thing (Arshay Cooper)
Born to Run (Christopher McDougall)
•Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
•Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larsen
•Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
•Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
All have stood the test of time, for both accuracy and readability.
I’m glad someone else mentioned The Spirit Catches You…, @Barbette_T! I read that book with a book club maybe 15 years ago and it’s stuck with me all this time.
I agree on The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson and The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
, but I will add three different books:
1.Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of 2 Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of WWII by Robert Kurson
2. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
3. The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
Many of my favorites are already mentioned above so I will share some memoirs that I’ve read recently and highly recommend.
Muppets in Moscow Natasha Lance Rogoff
Crossing the LIne: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport that Changed Their Lives Forever by Kareem Rosser
Infused: Adventures in Tea by Henrietta Lovell
The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebank
I loved Running with Sherman, also. Read it on my own 5-6 years ago and then again last year before moderating a discussion of it at a nearby library. I got even more out of it the second reading. Lawrence the goat was my hero; Sherman’s Samwise Gamgee.
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton - may be my favorite book of the year! Also Turning to Birds by Lili Taylor (a balm for our crazy times), and My Life in France by Julia Child (so wonderful!)