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Historical nonfiction

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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

December 11, 2024

If you were born before 1980, you know the impact this tragedy had on you. This minute-by-minute telling is so well done without feeling overwhelming.…

Jamie

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

December 4, 2024

This is not breezy, but the way Harari writes about how information is leveraged by bureaucracy and mythology and how it’s manipulated for various ends…

Knox

Henry V

November 13, 2024

I’ve been all in on Dan Jones for a while, and I enjoy how he responsibly adds perspective and speculations to his books. In this…

Knox

Disney High

October 9, 2024

I love a good oral history of something that was a cornerstone for a specific time in my life. This book does an excellent job…

Knox

When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day

August 21, 2024

This is a very literal account of the planning and execution of D-Day. I loved that they took real accounts from letters and interviews with…

Knox

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

May 22, 2024

Erik Larson is pretty much a season pass for me. In this book, he draws heavily from archives and personal diaries from both the Confederate…

Knox

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

May 1, 2024

I love Sides’ style of storytelling, and he’s now a season pass because he writes very cinematically without getting stuck in the minutia of the…

Knox

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

March 27, 2024

This is probably one of my favorite nonfiction reads of the last few years. It sounds very dense and tough, but it is not. It…

Knox

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

April 17, 2019

Patrick is a must-read for me, no matter the topic. Even though I thought I might skip this one, I'm so glad I didn't. It…

Jamie

These Truths: A History of the United States

December 12, 2018

Forget every other American history book you've read and camp out with this one.

Jamie