Does anyone know of any good non fiction books to read? I like Biography's and true stories.?

Question

Great Books...

Answer 1

I have read Blink as well.
Two other books I would suggest are...
The Ingenuity Gap
Mind Hacks
I have also been working on another book,, but I find it to be a slow read... In Praise Of Slow.
CyberNara

Answer 2

Have you read Blink by Malcolm Gladwell? The link below has some excerpts that you can access from the list underneath the photo of the book.

I like biographies too because I enjoy trying to figure out why people do what they do and how they live their lives--and even though it wasn't a biography, Blink had great insight on this, and the real life stories and examples were eye-opening.

Answer 3

Not true crime and not really a biography but definitely non-fiction, Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything was both humourous and informative. It does tend to focus on Western "world" history, though.

Answer 4

I suggest the life of Cesare Borgia. He lived during the Renaissance. He was a son of Pope Alexander VI. He's not so famous now but was famous in his time. He was a cardinal, duke, warrior. He talked with Machiavelli (he was the inspiration for The Prince) and he employed Leonardo da Vinci to make him maps and siege machines. He is quite a unique character. Sarah Bradford wrote a good biography of him. The drama of his life is what's most compelling, I find. And unlike a novel, it's all real.

Answer 5

This book isn't necessarily what your looking for but it is an interesting non-fiction commentary about the life of Jim Carroll called Basketball Diaries. It's about inner city youths with a world of potential and takes you through his amazing growth and turbulations as a young man. It was made into a movie but also a great read. This may not be what your looking for but its very entertaining.

Answer 6

I recommend the following books - I hope you like them too:

"Long Way Round - Chasing Shadows Across The Earth" by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. This is an interesting book about how two good friends drove 20,000 miles around the world on their motorcycles.

"Chronicles" by Bob Dylan. He brings you right there.

"Scar Tissue" by Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Answer 7

Reknowned as a classic autobiography is
Charles Chaplin's autobiography.
Red Azalea and Wild Swans are books written by Chinese women - autobiographical narrations of they and their family's experiences during the Cultural Revolution of China - both are interesting reads.
Diary of Anne Frank of course is another non-fictional all time classic. If you have not read it as yet.
Sixteenth Round by Rubin "hurricane" Carter.

Answer 8

If I were you i would read a book named "A Child called It" It's really sad but I think its really good

Answer 9

I recommend "The Periodic Table" by Primo Levi, his autobiography, you'd love his style of topical sequences and superb narrative.

Answer 10

I Lived to Tell It All by George Jones