Book recommendations?
Jan. 12th, 2009 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Originally published at erin-go-blog!. You can comment here or there.
As a rule, I don’t read a whole lot of nonfiction. What I did read last year was mostly entertainment or education-related. And yet, almost every time I see someone on The Daily Show promoting a book, I think, “hey, that sounds interesting. I might want to read that.”
So I’m looking for your recommendations. What irresistible nonfiction is out there waiting for me?
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Date: 2009-01-12 11:17 pm (UTC)Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
Straight-up NonFic:
Into the Wild & Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Complications & Better by Atul Gawande
The Nine by Jeffery Toobin
Anything by Malcolm Gladwell
The World Is Flat by Thomas J. Friedman (reading this one now... interesting but fairly...uh... dense. I can only read a few pages at a time!)
here're three...
Date: 2009-01-12 11:25 pm (UTC)emily Dickinson - Selected Letters
Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz - Media Events
:-)
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Date: 2009-01-13 05:09 pm (UTC)Very interesting diary of a former Russian princess living in Berlin during world War II, who had access to a variety of circles including those involved in the plot to kill Hitler. I read it in one or two nights, because I couldn't put it down.