Fav Non Fiction Books?

[~Hestia~]

DH bought me a Kindle tonight (yay!), so now I am going through and trying to make a wish list. I had heaps that I wanted to read but now that I'm sitting here I can't think of any. I prefer biographies/auto biographies these days so please share any you have enjoyed

[ElleJay]

I'm in the middle of Chloe Maxwells book about her autistic son, Max. Our Boy Max or Our Son Max. I can't remember the exact title right this second but I can barely put it down.

[~Hestia~]

Oh thanks DD, that's actually one I saw ages ago that I wanted to read.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson was pretty good, for an autobiography. Dude who decides to build girls' schools in Pakistan after a mountain-climbing accident out there.

Did you want just biographies/autobiographies or any non-fiction books?

[ElleJay]

Oh thanks DD, that's actually one I saw ages ago that I wanted to read.

No worries
Most of the biographies I'vs read are wrestling biographies so I can't help too much in that department But I thought that one book may be interesting to you.

[Phteven]

The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England/Elizabethan England
Anything by Bill Bryson
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Salt
Cod
Under The Banner of Heaven
Into Thin Air
Into the Wild
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Alison Weir not Antonia Fraser although the Fraser text is also interesting). Actually any of the Alison Weir biographies are interesting. Elanor of Aquitane, Queen Isabella, The Lady in the Tower.....
Geisha. The One by Liza Dalby
Freakanomics/Superfreakanomics
The Wolf of Wall Street/Catching the Wolf of Wall Street (These two are autobiographical)
The Women of the Cousin's War.
The Cloudspotter's Guide.


If you read Three Cups of Tea you gotta read Three Cups of Deceit and then his rebuttal which was published in Outside magazine. Gripping stuff.

[~Hestia~]

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson was pretty good, for an autobiography. Dude who decides to build girls' schools in Pakistan after a mountain-climbing accident out there.

Did you want just biographies/autobiographies or any non-fiction books?

Thanks TFB, that one sounds interesting.

I'm after anything that is true life I guess. I used to read a book a day before I had kids though haven't read much lately, now that I'm getting back into reading I can't get into fiction for some reason.

Thanks Zazou, Into the Wild is one of my all time favourites, off to google the rest

[Phteven]

Three Cups of Deceit is written by the guy who wrote Into The Wild.

I found it heaps harder to read fiction after having children too although I've got back into it recently.

[peanutter]

If you like the Freakenomics books, try Undercover Economist too

I'm also getting quite into Biographies and Autobiographies.

[~Hestia~]

Love all those suggestions Zazou

Thanks PN, that looks really good too.

Never going to get to sleep tonight! Too busy googling and wish listing lol

[Phteven]

Mao's Last Dancer
Wild Swans
Angela's Ashes
A Hospital by The River

ETA - PN you made me break my no new books until I have finished all my other books resolution. Kindle is dangerous - it combines the instant gratification of bookshops with the ease of online shopping

[peanutter]

I also like reading speeches.

And judgments (I know, weird, but they're really interesting ... things rarely get to the High Court or Court of Appeal if they're not complicated and fascinating).

[ElleJay]

I also like reading speeches.

And judgments (I know, weird, but they're really interesting ... things rarely get to the High Court or Court of Appeal if they're not complicated and fascinating).

Sounds like something I'd be interested in too nutter

[peanutter]

Sounds like something I'd be interested in too nutter

This is because all original vintage thread killers are inherently awesome.




Ooo - I also like crime stories, but not ones about sexual violence (especially paedophilia).

[ElleJay]

This is because all original vintage thread killers are inherently awesome.




Ooo - I also like crime stories, but not ones about sexual violence (especially paedophilia).

That we are nutter (awesome) that we are

I'm going to a comedy show tonight that's a former WWE wrestler, Mick Foley. He's got a book out called 'Have A Nice Day' which is his biography - but even though it's got a fair bit of wrestling in it, it's got a lot of his early stuff too, like high school stories and such.
It actually opens your eyes as to what they do on the road + what they have to do to get to 'the big leagues'. The only other ones I read are sports auto/biographies
My MIL has read Dawn Frenchs autobiography and she highly recommends that one.
My FIL is a huge book fan, and I'm seeing them today so I'll ask him if he's read any good ones lately

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Oooh, if you like Miranda Hart then you may well like her autobiography. If you don't like her, don't read it. It's like reading her radio/TV show.

Zazou, will have to read "three cups of deceit" as I found the 3 cuppas book interesting, but a bit "I'm American so I am great all the time".

Damnit, just realised that Jasper Fford wasn't writing a biography when he did his Thursday Next books. But you could pretend it was real, that would be such a blast. The later ones treat the early ones as a biography, does that count?