The BEST Starter Nonfiction Books
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Want to start reading more nonfiction?
Here are a few great books to get you started.
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Getting in the habit of reading again has changed my life for the better
Me too. Forgot how enjoyable it is.
As a big nonfiction reader, these are all good picks, but I think a nod to some of the essential literary journalism works would be a great starter in the nonfiction world as well. It offers a bit more variety to the picks that would offer a different genre and voice in addition to the more historical or philosophical picks.
Didion, Woolf, or Talese are all essential reads for any nonfiction lover.
Incredible recommendations!! Letters from a Stoic! Hell yes.
Ive always found nonfiction to be so incredibly boring. Something about the actual earth and history is just so dry to me. But ill keep these books on my radar just because they sound good and seem well liked
So this seems to be non-fiction light . I often read much more technical stuff that's at college level .
3 books on 4 you reccomended are american... Like that only american Autor write Non Fiction
For the non believers
World's religions - smith
Letters to a Christian nation - harris
Godless - barker
God is not great - hitchins
God delusion - dawkins
Science
Elegant universe - greene
I've tried so hard to read non foction and get incredibly bored very fast. So, I'm going to give the Teddy Roosevelt book a shot. I even love True Crime, but the books are no where near as fun as a podcast. So, thanks for the recommendations!
You bet! The Roosevelt one is great if you normally find nonfiction boring, it’s very action packed
A short history of nearly everything is great too.
As is industrial society and it's future
Absolutely
Thank you! I'd also recommend Born a Crime by Trevor Noah for those who want to get into memoirs, and Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow for those interested in the behind the scenes of a great journalist while writing a historic investigation piece.
Autobiographies are my one of my favorite genres so reading nonfiction isn’t really a problem but that first one sounds really interesting!
The King James Bible is a great read for non-fiction lovers like myself
Come unto the True and Living God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved"❤
When you read fiction, you know it’s not true, so you might think that non-fiction is “just presenting the facts”. But it’s presenting a particular sub-set of “The Facts”, that puts a certain interpretation on the whole thing. Please keep in mind that there is no such thing as “neutral non-fiction”, it is all slanted in some way to establish a point or to support a certain interpretation etc. The author is always purposefully manipulating the reader’s mind.
That particular edition of Seneca omits most of his best pro-suicide letters.
I didn't know that! I'll have to give it a read
Which one do you recommend then?
@@MrLuger-jp9kd probably that edition
Other non-fiction genres people would love include biography, autobiography and memoirs. Real life stories are so much better than fiction! Sandra Day OConnor’s memoir “Lazy B” was so good! Rick Bragg’s “All Over But The Shoutin’” was also mesmerizing. So many others!
'River of Doubt' - I read this years ago. What an inspired recommendation!
I’d get the entire Letters from a Stoic, not the Penguin edition which is a selection.
Are women writing any books?
didn’t know kmag was a reader
Wow i read the last one
Antony beevor- fall of Berlin 1945
Marcus Aurelius- meditation
Christopher R browning- ordinary men
Fredrick downs- the killing zone
Great suggestions! I usually only read fiction and the only non-fiction author I keep up with is Jim Kwik. Thanks for helping me expanding my library!
I bought the Teddy Roosevelt version of the river of doubt and it was incredible. I'm not sure how well the re written version is though
I'd recommend Madhouse at the end of the earth. An expedition to Antarctica gone wrong.
Glad to see the Seneca recommendation.
I read that book deadly alliance by that one reporter. Had some slow parts to get through. The part about Rick Ross was good. And Hugo Spadafora. That was pretty grim.
I've been reading novels lately, but I'm gonna do some reading of non-fiction books for a change.
Have you read The Master and His Emissary by Dr Iain MacGilchrist?
Why didn’t you mention like a science book; those are the only good ones really.
Thank you!
If someone wants to read non fiction u should go for olive green by ap singh
Brother need to worry about his hair. Before end up become Schopenhauer or John stuart mill
Please please review hard-boiled crime fiction like Richard Stark.
My problem is i am hooked on nonfiction books. I need suggested fiction starters.
Letters from stoic is my life changer😊😊❤
First read Bhagavad Gita & Upnishad.❤️
if only everyone did
om namah shivaya
plenty more amazing books exists than those
@@lavanlavan4011 Like?
A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson
Ngl best fiction book is all trmmw
I love you reviews man! Do u have a video of ur favorite adventure books of all time? So many to chose from! I need some insight!
River of Doubt is fantastic.
What's a nonfixin
‘Easy’ to read?
Ah Roosevelt's Amazon trip. Why people think Piranha will eat you,
the predeator is roosevelt aka rosenfeld
@@CoeThomas What?
@@coyoteartist his real family name. Rosenfeld ushered in the income tax and the social security number. number of the beast!
Good fiction
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you don't need those - any college level literature course will have books w/ a myriad of good short non fiction stories ~
Why would you pay extra for a university course just to read books anyone can rent/buy?
There are also more diverse authors out there for anyone looking 😊
Yep! All these are from a perspective of one type of human with a certain level of power/money already afforded to them.
The two non-fiction books that i've read cover to cover multiple times and I think most people would enjoy would make fine additions to this list IMHO.
The World Without Us - the ecology and philosophy in this book is brilliant. It taught me so much about our past and about our most permanent impacts on Mother Earth and on The Universe. Like how if we all disappeared tomorrow, virtually every nuclear reactor on Earth would eventually go supercritical and meltdown.
Second one is The Devil in the White City, which reads much like a novel IIRC (it's been a decade or so since i last read it). It tells the story of H.H. Holmes amid the insane cultural milestone that was the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. Lots of firsts happened there while thousands of young people arrived off the plains looking to find fame and fortune in the Big City. The city was exploding, and Holmes took advantage of this by offering decent housing in a seemingly safe setting. He was a real Hannibal Lector, Ted Bundy type, with endless wit and a disarming charm that was especially affective with naive farm girls fresh off the prairie.
No one knows how many women and girls he killed. There's no way to know how many disappeared in that time in that place - and certainly some would've found some other misfortune. And still more would've actually made it, finding love or at least a non-murderous husband, or some other fate.
He murdered in his infamous hotel boarding house that he built for pennies. He would hire work crews promising grand wages, and then firing them (often without any payment) after finding some issues to complain about.
I've not done either book justice. It's been a while since i've read either book.
I've heard great things about Devil in the White City, the first sounds really interesting too!
I loved both of these books. I loaned my copy of The World to someone and never got it back. I n need to replace it. The Devil in the White city took me into a deep dive into HH Holmes. He really was never convicted or found guilty of any other murders other than the Pietzels. But there was definitely suspicion that went with it. There recently was a show with a former FBI agent and the great great grandson of HH Holmes. Unfortunately, it was only one season and because of the real story behind the excavation of the property and the Holmes grave I don’t think they’ll be a season two. Another book that you might find interesting is Thunderstruck by Erik Larsen about Hawley Harley Crippen.
Unless it was for school or job, I never read any non-fiction book.
That’s too bad, there are some great ones
And that is why you’re probably very ignorant.
The finance recommendation is criminally wrong. There is a goto first read in that subject. You didn’t cite it. It goes to show your inadequacy.