I got a Kindle and it's changing my life. I need to read more next year, any books y'all would recommend? I've currently been on a history biography binge
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Not sure if it’ll work on Kindle but highly recommend getting Hoopla on there if it allows apps. You can sync it with your library card and borrow tons of books, magazines, audiobooks, etc. Using it to check out The Art of Bioshock Infinite, which is so awesome.
More history, less biography:
Baseball in the Garden of Eden - History of early baseball
Mao's Great Famine - History of a large famine in China
Holy Sh*t: A brief History of Swearing - This is a fun one.
Honorable Mentions, podcasts I love in book form:
The Memory Palace
The 99% Invisible City
I listed the history ones first, but I strongly Endorse the Memory Palace as a bunch of real stories told exceptionally well. If you're on a history stint, it's a really good one to look into.
The 99% Invisible City is more about design, learning why cities or structures were made the way they are.
- Sunbearer Trials (YA fantasy based off Latin American mythology)
- Compound Fracture (YA horror and thriller that takes place in WV)
- Camp Damascus (horror about demons and a gay conversion camp)
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (sci-fi about how people react to robots suddenly showing up)
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I’m Glad my Mom Died - a very good window into the expectations and pressure put on child actors. Biography of Jeanette McCurdy.
Salt: a World History - not finished it yet, but it’s been a great read that goes over the historical logistics of salt.
Baseball in the Garden of Eden - History of early baseball
Mao's Great Famine - History of a large famine in China
Holy Sh*t: A brief History of Swearing - This is a fun one.
Honorable Mentions, podcasts I love in book form:
The Memory Palace
The 99% Invisible City
The 99% Invisible City is more about design, learning why cities or structures were made the way they are.
It goes over the history of masculinity and its toxicity throughout the years and how it’s changed in the current century.
Its about felix’s life and his Plot to kill rasputin.
Michael Crichton- Jurassic park
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky- Roadside Picnic
William Gibson- The Neuromancer
- Compound Fracture (YA horror and thriller that takes place in WV)
- Camp Damascus (horror about demons and a gay conversion camp)
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (sci-fi about how people react to robots suddenly showing up)