Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Into the Wild are both very good, as is Under the Banner of Heaven, about Mormon fundamentalism and a notorious Utah double homicide.
Three interesting earlier threads about Into the Wild: (1) Biggest nincompoop: Timothy Treadwell, Chris McCandless, or Vitaly Nikolayenko? (2) Your thoughts on INTO THE WILD by Jon Krakauer
(3) I just saw 'Into the Wild' and all I gotta say is...
I was underwhelmed by Thomas Perry’s The Old Man when I read it two years ago, I have to admit.
I read The Only Plane in the Sky a few months ago and agree, it’s quite powerful. The title comes from a realization by the command pilot of Air Force One late on 9/11 - as far as he knew, they really were the only plane in the sky.
Now reading The Two Popes: Francis, Benedict, and the Decision That Shook the World by Anthony McCarten. I’d enjoyed the movie with Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins, which was lightly fictionalized; this is nonfiction, and pretty good so far, although McCarten’s prose is a bit breathless sometimes. I knew very little of the future Pope Francis’s early life, and am learning a lot.