Savage Nation is a book about inequality in the school systems. You won’t agree with everything he says but it is a good book.
I don’t like or trust her reporting but something by Judith Miller.
Hillary Clinton’s new autobiography. And yes there is stuff in there about Monica.
It is not called Savage Nation…I think it is Savage Inequalites. Ah nevemind…I forgot sorry.
Nickel and Dimed is very interesting.
Richard Feynman is beautiful., I am so happy someone recommended and I will second What Do You Care What Other People Think and add The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.
Last winter a book called “They Fought Like Demons” came out. It was about women who dressed up like men to fight in the Civil War. Very interesting.
Also, a book called “The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues” was a pretty good read.
I’ve always liked, and on occation go back and reread “And the Band Played On” Randy Shilt’s excellent account of the AIDS crisis. Depressing, frightening, but enlightening and well written.
A proper hockey book would fill the bill.
Have you read anything about the Wright Brothers? I liked “First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane.”
Do you like historical true crime? I liked “The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America” which is about the serial killer during Chicago’s world fair of 1893.
RULE BY SECRECY by Jim Marrs
The last 30 pages get pretty wierd.
Dal Timgar
Try reading “Black Boy,” an autobiography by Richard Wright. Wright describes his frustration with a family that never understood him and with his inability to obey the “Jim Crow” social codes of the South in the 1920’s, but does so without self pity. He also writes about the clash between his stubborn individualism and a communist group he has joined. If possible get the restored text version, which includes passages that the original version lacked.
If you manage to remember it, The Seven Sins of Memory.
Of stuff I’ve read recently, I quite enjoyed Fat Land, loved Five Past Midnight in Bhopal, and I just reread The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell which was interesting, still.
And sorry to break the non-fiction rule but feel I should mention The Rachel Papers.