I need to read a non-fiction book. Do you have any favorites that you would recommend?

Question

To give you a clue of kinda what I like, my FAVORITE books are "In Cold Blood" and "Seabiscuit". I like older real-life events that aren't as well known, but are still interesting. I kinda like murder books ( I know, it's kinda creepy), but not ones that are too bloody and gross.

Answer 1

If you liked In Cold Blood, I think you'll like true crime writers Ann Rule & Darcy O'Brien. Rule has written many good ones - but one of her earliest & best known is The Stranger Beside Me about famous serial murderer Ted Bundy. Darcy O'Brien wrote Two of a Kind, The Hillside Stranglers about serial murderers Angelo Buono & Kenneth Bianchi & another very good one called Murder in Little Egypt. And there's Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi's classic about the arrest & prosecution of Charles Manson & his "family."

I've read a lot of books alleging conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination, but the best & most plausible to me is Contract on America, the Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy by David E. Scheim

On a happier note, try the recent Marley and Me by John Grogan about a man and his lovable but unruly dog.

Answer 2

Lucky, by Alice Sebold, is her memoir after being raped the last day of college, her freshman year. This is her journey after.

Cruel Sacrifice, by Aphrodite Jones is the story of five young girls in a small Indiana town. There is lesbianism jealousy and it results in a horrific crime. I think I liked it because the author goes into the background of a couple of the girls in an attempt to make sense of what occurs.

I've read Ice Man - Confessions of a Mafia Hit Man (something to that effect) and it was okay. I also read Facing Down Evil by Clint Van Zandt. He was one of the first to do FBI profiling, and this has cases from his career.

Answer 3

Jane Eyre, ' The Hitchhikers handbook to the Universe, something and each little thing by utilising Thomas Hardy and the worldwide From tough Stones Oh and poetry... Birds by using A Ceiling of Alabaster (translated) is my all time examine back poetry e book I even have basically been attempting to be sure what that announces approximately me. perchance i might rather no longer know the respond....

Answer 4

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom. It will really make you think about life, and the many things we take for granted every day. It will also make you think about love, not the romantic kind, the kind you have for a very dear friend, teacher or relative. It's not scary or creepy. It's actually quite sad, but also warm hearted. It really touches the soul.

Answer 5

Beautiful Jim Key:
See http://www.beautifuljimkey.com/
It'll tell you about the new book written about him-- fascinating and little known story about a horse and his trainer. It's an older story, which you said you liked.

I like both fiction and non-fiction and I *loved* Seabiscuit.

I also liked When Elephants Weep, which is about animal emotions.

There have been several good books about Lizzie Borden, too, which would be an old crime story.

Good luck! Hope you find something you like!

Answer 6

I don't like fiction, so I love biographies. You might want to read a biography on a famour person or ????? usually auto-biographies are better because they are closer to the truth. Try reading a biography of an author who writes murder books.

Answer 7

I enjoyed She's Not Here by Jennifer Boylan and Sybil but they're not creepy or historical... Caliban's Shore (don't remember the author) is about shipwreck survivors and might be more up your alley. Helter Skelter wasn't too gross, but it will sure keep you off drugs LOL.

Answer 8

"The Last Victim," by Jason Moss, is a thrilling read. It looks like a tabloid kind of book, and while it has some sensationalist elements, it is a solid true crime novel. It's a true story about a boy who writes to serial killers to get inside their minds. He crafts his letters to lure the killers into a correspondance, posing as someone they might want to hunt. What he uncovers about them is both startling and morbid.

Answer 9

I always enjoy biographies of women. If you're looking for someone who is not so well known today you may be interested in reading a biography on Gertrude Bell. She was a very adventurous woman and very forward thinking for her time.

Answer 10

In non-fiction, I have always preferred biographies, especially from the civil war era. It fascinates me to know what our leaders were really like...what they thought.. why they did the things they did.