Columbine discussion

I thought this was an amazing book and I am looking for recommendations on other non-fiction works that provide what I liked best about this book- there was real insight. Im looking for recommendations on other similar non-fiction; similar in the sense it provides real answers and information, not just guesses and speculation.

It can be on any topic- true crime, mountaineering, religion, science or psychology of anything- any truly fact based forensic examination of any interesting event.

You might take a look at A SAFEWAY IN ARIZONA. It's the background on the shooting of Gabriela Giffords, by Tom Zoellner, a native of Arizona and friend of Giffords. He is an excellent researcher, and insightful, as well as geing a great writer.

'Manson," by Jeff Guinn, provides real insight into on of America's most notroious mass murderers.

It's been a few years since I read it, but I remember being very taken by a book that explored the 9/11 tragedy by focusing on the images that were taken of those events. It's called Watching the World Change by David Friend. His research went beyond "what happened when" and dug into the deeper "why" questions.

'In cold blood' - Truman Capote
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

'The Night Stalker' - Philip Carlo
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

Both brilliant.

You may enjoy "Five Days at Memorial" by Sheri Fink. It is also a detailed narrative, well researched, and leaves the reader with deeper insight (yet? more unanswered questions) to a shocking event (Hurricane Katrina, and the breakdown of a hospital's order.)

Manson by Guinn is very good. Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi is a classic, probably the best of this genre. Newtown, An American Tragedy by Matthew Lysiak is very good, about school shootings in Connecticut.

Paula wrote: "I thought this was an amazing book and I am looking for recommendations on other non-fiction works that provide what I liked best about this book- there was real insight. Im looking for recommenda..."

I'd also recommend Bugliosi's tome on the Kennedy assassination, "Reclaiming History". I've read Jon Krakauer's "Under the Banner of Heaven" and "Into Thin Air" which I believe you'd enjoy.

I recommend John Wayne Gacy: Defending A Monster by Sam L. Amirante and Danny Broderick. It's written from the POV of the lawyer who defended him which was very interesting....

Helter Skelter.

You might try "The Devil's Highway" by Luis Alberto Urrea.
Gave great perspective on the perils of crossing the border and what greats risks people go to.
I found it fascinating.

Five Days at Memorial
Zeitoun
Lost Girls (nothing's solved, but amazing!)
Anything written by Jon Krakauer

Amy recommended Five Days at Memorial too - it was mind blowing- that book will stay with me forever. Lost Girls was very good too. I've read most of John Krakauer, but IME, he's hit or miss..

I'm looking forward to The devils Highway and Reclaiming History and some of the others I haven't read yet, and by all means, continue to update the list.