Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

The group voted to read the History & Biography nominee Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster in June. The winner for this genre was The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. Have you read any of the other nominees for this award? Which have you read and what did you think? Which was your favorite?

Do you plan to read any of them in the future? How about setting up a buddy read of one that you are interested in this month? Use this thread to discuss and find a buddy!

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Additional nominees:
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
Code Name: Lise. The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
First: Sandra Day O'Connor
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against HitlerSay Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

There are a couple that I would like to read in this genre. I'm interested in The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society, and Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II. A couple of the other WWII books look like they would be interesting as well, but I feel like I've read a lot of them so I think I'll put those nonfiction reads on hold for a while.

There are also only a couple that I have on my TBR list: The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 and How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. I also think that history and biography should be split into two categories for the award - just my opinion :)

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I really liked Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society and The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11.

I'm currently reading The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present.

I want to read Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II and First: Sandra Day O'Connor.

I may read How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States later.