East of Eden question

Here's a few of mine:

Worst Hard Time: Tumothy Egan
Agent ZigZag : Ben Macintyre
Mornings on Horseback : David McCullough
Into Thin Air: Jon Krakauer
Under the Banner of Heaven: Jon Krakauer
Devil in the White City: Erik Larson
In the Garden of Beasts: Erik Larson
Helter Skelter: Vincent Bugliosi (listened to on audio-chilling!)
In Cold Blood: Truman Capote
The Children's Blizzard: David Laskin
Fordlandia: Greg Grandin
Am now trying to get through Vol. I (The Path to Power) of Robert Caro's Lyndon Johnson series - slow going!

Ah, yes, non-fiction...
My faves off the top of my head:
Barry Lopez: Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez: Of Wolves and Men
Charles Bowden: Blood Orchid
Charles Bowden: Some of the Dead are Still Breathing
Ivan Doig: This House of Sky
Mike Davis: City of Quartz
Wallace Stegner: Wolf Willow
Bruce Chatwin: The Songlines
Joseph Mitchell: Up in the Old Hotel
John McPhee: Annals of a Former World

I personally love non-fiction.
My top 10 favs:

Issac's Storm: Erik Larson
In the Garden of Beasts: Erik Larson
Hungry Ocean: Linda Greenlaw
Never Cry Wolf: Farley Mowat
The Zoo Keepers Wife: Diane Ackerman
Dogs of Bedlam Farm: John Katz
All Creatures Great & Small: James Herriot
Man Hunt: James L. Swanson
The Warmth of Other Suns: Isabel Wilkerson
Hellhound on His Trail: Hampton Sides

Here are ten, among many favorites in NF [in no particular order]:
The Power Broker
A Distant Mirror
New York: An Illustrated History [based on the PBS Series]
Apollo's Angels
Or I'll Dress you in Mourning
Land of Desire
Savage Grace
Great Fortune
Mansions in the Clouds
Act One

Hiya Jeff-
You might want to see if you can change the header on this NF subject. Great topic by the way.

Actually, East of Eden is part memoir--the Hamilton family were his mother's people, and he, himself, appears in one scene, hiding behind Olive (his mother)'s skirts.

In no particular order:

- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation by Sally Jenkins
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
- Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century by Alvin Toffler
- The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll
- Staying Up Much Too Late: Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and the Dark Side of the American Psyche by Gordon Theisen
- Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
- Hustler Days: Minnesota Fats, Wimpy Lassiter, Jersey Red, and America's Great Age of Pool by R.A. Dyer
- Street Without Joy byBernard B. Fall

I tried to avoid straight auto/biography memoirs and 'big and important' histories. The last book, Street Without Joy' is a military political history that is unsurpassed if not unequaled. It should be required reading. For everyone.

There are several non-fiction books I'd include in this list if I went on for another 10 or more books, some that have been mentioned already. There are easily half a dozen more recent works of history works that are favorites if I thought about them just in terms of non-fiction.

Enough for the moment!

Mornings on Horseback
In Cold Blood
A Distant Mirror
Into Thin Air
Night
Helter Skelter
Diary of Anne Frank
Mrs Adams in Winter

Churhill and Roosevelt

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