Recommend clean secular nonfiction

amother

Lavender

Sun, Jan 23 2022, 1:44 pm

amother [ DarkViolet ] wrote:

Bump. Not OP.
Specifically looking for memoirs.
I put many of these suggestions on hold at my local library. No more holds allowed until they come in and I pick them up, but I'll be following this thread. Thanks! Looking forward!

All Over But The Shouting by Rick Bragg
The Arrogant Years by Lucette Lagnado
Turning Stones by Marc Parent
Turbulent Souls by Stephen Dubner
All were fascinating memoirs

amother

Mon, Oct 31 2022, 10:46 pm

Hi! Just came back here to look for more recommendations and realized that I hadn't seen some of the later ones.

Here are some good nonfiction books I've read:

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (about horrible DNR decisions made during Hurricane Katrina)

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Son of Hamas - by the son of one of the seven founders of Hamas who became an agent for Israel

The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Edith Eger

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington by Sharyl Attkisson

aquarius1

Mon, Oct 31 2022, 11:11 pm

The man in the white sharkskin suit
By Lucette Lagnado

Stolen Focus
By Johanne Hari

Sapiens and Homo Deus
By Yuval Noah Harrari

Beautiful Boy
By David Sheff

GLUE

Mon, Oct 31 2022, 11:27 pm

Let there be water : Israel's solution for a water-starved world / Seth M. Siegel.

Manhattan phoenix : the great fire of 1835 and the emergence of modern New York / Daniel S. Levy.

Black Death at the Golden Gate : the race to save America from the bubonic plague / David K. Randall.

Brief histories of everyday objects\ Andy Warner

Hostages no more : the fight for education freedom and the future of the American child / Betsy DeVos.

Sprawl : a compact history / Robert Bruegmann.

Busted : life inside the great mortgage meltdown / Edmund L. Andrews.

A year of Biblical womanhood : how a liberated woman found herself sitting on her roof, covering her head, and calling her husband "master" / Rachel Held Evans

GLUE

Tue, Nov 01 2022, 12:34 am

The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices-Xinran
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love–Xinran

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Deirdre Mask

The Accidental Dictionary: The Remarkable Twists and Turns of English Words
Paul Anthony Jones