Clean,Non Religious-Reads discussion

I don't know if it's just me, but it seems that for me,nonfiction books tend to be the most unforgettable ones that I have read.
Just a few examples are...

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston
The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story by Richard Preston

Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin
Oranges and Sunshine: Empty Cradles by Margaret Humphreys
Burned Alive: A Victim of the Law of Men by Souad
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson

oh they sound good! my favorite NF are "Isaac's Storm " "Monique and the Mango Rains " "There is No Me Without You " "Titanic Survivor " (about Violet Yessop a stewardess who was shipwrecked three times) "Barrow's Boys " and "Tsunami " (about the tsunami that hit Newfoundland in the early 1900s).... for starters :)

Those also sound interesting and I have seen "Barrow's Boys" mentioned in several places.

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War by Nathaniel Philbrick

Marmee and Louisa by Eve LaPlante

Thank you poohbear.

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson 464 pgs[bio-memoir/history]
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the “New Germany,” she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance—and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler’s true character and ruthless ambition.
Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre Göring and the expectedly charming--yet wholly sinister--Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.

Damon Runyon (Biography) by Jimmy Breslin

Son of the Morning Star (Custer & The Little Bighorn) by Evan S. Connell

The Century by Peter Jennings & Todd Brewster

The War (An Intimate History 1941 - 1945) by Geoffrey C. Ward

I haven't read it yet, but I've heard from everybody that



is amazing.