Any Non-fiction book recommendations?

[LondonKid]

I'm travelling a lot with work right now and need to be a bit grown up and stop playing on my phone the whole time. So i've bought myself a kindle but don't know what books to start searching for. Previously, i've read a few books on Auschwitz and life inside Thai prisons (a bit dark i know) but i am also interested in books on WWII, true crime, autobiographies and generally any Non-fiction books. I'm even contemplating reading Alex Ferguson's autobiography (Sorry!)

Ohh and for the comedy factor, are there any better books than Tucker Max's 'I hope they serve beer in hell' ?!?!?

Any recommendations at all are really appreciated

 

[sweet_left_foot]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-His.../ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Easy reading, written for kids in an era when kids were more intelligent than adults are now. A historical dip your toe-in approach to everything.

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

If this is a man...Primo Levi.

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

Wiseguy...Nicholas Pileggi.

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

Profession of Violence....John Pearson.

 

[Linthorpe_Exile]

If you like History.... I've just started and am really enjoying "A Time-Traveller's guide to Medieval England" by Ian Mortimer. A number of the Bill Bryson books are very good.

 

[RotherhamBoro]

Amy book by Anthony Beevor for WW2. Stalingrad in particular is good.

 

[Muttley]

If you are interested in WW2 I can recommend First Light by Geoffrey Wellum

For an autobiography try "Life" by Keith Richards

 

[HolgateCorner]

You sound like a busy person, so before you do anything read this -

Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

 

[Nero]

There’s a few I’d recommend:

The first book by the Secret Barrister - this was the one MP’s were told to read. It’s eye opening and shows how the Tories have wrecked this country.

Sapians by Yuval Noah Harari - you will never think about humans the same again

Thinking Fast and Slow by Danial Kahnaman - another massively important one about people

Prisons of Geography- really interesting about how people in different parts of the world developed because of where they happened to be.

 

[LondonKid]

If this is a man...Primo Levi.

Actually that was a book i was going to buy previously so a great recommendation - thanks!

 

[LondonKid]

Wiseguy...Nicholas Pileggi.

Just looked on Amazon and it is only offering me a dutch version!

 

[LondonKid]

Amy book by Anthony Beevor for WW2. Stalingrad in particular is good.

Ohh never heard of him but they look right up my street! I've just downloaded Stalingrad

 

[Druss_The_Legend]

The Railway Man by Eric Lomax is very good.
Any book by Bill Bryson is worth reading.
Bernard Cornwell wrote a non fiction book about the battle of Waterloo which is good(can't remember it's name off the top of my head).
Saul David is a very well respected historian specialising in South African wars and has written several non fiction books about the Anglo Zulu and Boar War.
True crime I don't really read anymore but Lenny McLean The Guvnor and Roy Shaw Pretty Boy Shaw are good I also read a book called Tarmac warrior about a gypsy Bareknuckle fighter but can't remember the author.

*The Bernard Cornwell book is called Waterloo!
*Billy Cribb wrote tarmac Warrior.

 

[LondonKid]

You sound like a busy person, so before you do anything read this -

Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

At first i wondered why you would recommend a book on time management, however the more i read about it, it actually sounds quite interesting. I'll download it - thanks

 

[TheYorkshireTerrier]

Two I picked up this week from Waterstones:

But What Can I Do? How Politics Has Gone So Wrong and How You Can Fix It - Alastair Campbell

Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Britain, Sport and the 1980s - Roger Domeneghetti

Here are some I’ve read recently:

Strong Female Character - Fern Brady
How Fascism Works - Jason F Stanley
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read - Philippa Perry
Chimp Paradox - Steve Peters
Stolen Focus - Johann Hari
Conspiracy, a history of boll*cks - Tom Phillips
The unexpected joy of being sober - Catherine Grey
Surviving to Drive - Guenther Steiner
Atomic Habits - James Clear
Surrounded by Idiots - Thomas Erikson
Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker
Michael Carrick’s Autobiography…

 

[LondonKid]

There’s a few I’d recommend:

The first book by the Secret Barrister - this was the one MP’s were told to read. It’s eye opening and shows how the Tories have wrecked this country.

Sapians by Yuval Noah Harari - you will never think about humans the same again

Thinking Fast and Slow by Danial Kahnaman - another massively important one about people

Prisons of Geography- really interesting about how people in different parts of the world developed because of where they happened to be.

Great recommendations - thanks. Strangely enough i am currently reading Prisons of Geography, but i am only on to chapter 2

 

[LondonKid]

Absolutely superb recommendations - thanks so much. I will read about every one of them today and start downloading

Didn't realise we had so many intelligent people on the board

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

You sound like a busy person, so before you do anything read this -

Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

Was always going to read that, but never had time.

 

[Jedi boro]

If you like History.... I've just started and am really enjoying "A Time-Traveller's guide to Medieval England" by Ian Mortimer. A number of the Bill Bryson books are very good.

Thanks for the tip I’ve just bought that as I’m fascinated by this era.

As for my book recommendations I’ve just bought “tears at la bombonera” a journey through South American football.

“ Tears at La Bombonera is author Christopher Hylland's six-year journey living, working, and traveling through South America”