# Need my next book

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 8, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-my-next-book/455764 "2008-07-08T22:00:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![sweeteviljesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@sweeteviljesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweeteviljesus)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-my-next-book/455764/1 "2008-07-08T22:00:08Z")

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I like non-fiction, but I am out of stuff to read right now. I just finished Richard Engle’s War Journal and now I am re-reading old stuff. Does anyone have any good suggestions?

Thanks,  
Rob

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**Author:** ![hanna\_the\_curious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/34f0e0/32.png) [@hanna\_the\_curious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hanna_the_curious)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-my-next-book/455764/2 "2008-07-08T22:39:23Z")

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I found “The Mummy Congress” by Heather Pringle to be unexpectedly engaging. It’s subtitled “Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead” but it’s also about the politics of archeology.

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**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-my-next-book/455764/3 "2008-07-08T22:56:00Z")

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Non fiction isn’t really my bag, but I hate that “I don’t have anything to read” feeling. So here is what I do have.

I really enjoyed \*\*The Devil’s Teeth \*\* by Susan Casey. It’s about great while sharks off the coast of San Fransisco and the people doing research out there.

I just finished re-reading \*\*In Cold Blood \*\* by Truman Capote. So that is on my mind, and if you haven’t read it, it’s an amazing book.

\*\*Bill Bryson’s \*\* books are light and non fiction travel stories. I particularly like **A Walk in the Woods**.

\*\*The new David Sedaris book “\*\*When you are engulfed in flames” is awesome. (Non fiction comedic essays, including a good long one about how the author quit smoking by moving to Japan which was funny and fascinating.)

**The Killer Angels** by Michael Shaara is a fantasic book about the Civil War, specifically Gettysburg. Not so much Non-Fiction as historical fiction, but I am told it is exceedingly accurate historical fiction.

I also just finished reading **Lamb** by Chrisopher Moore which is in no way non fiction, but is very funny and should be read by everyone.

Hope this helps a little.

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**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-my-next-book/455764/4 "2008-07-08T23:40:41Z")

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Douglas Adams did a non fiction book that was fantastic called: “Last Chance to See”  
is funny and engaging and it has Lemurs in the first chapter!