Last Good Non Fiction Book You've Read?

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I am reading Win Your Wounds by Abdulbagi Khalifa Alimam. It is truly an excellent book and I would definitely recommend it to others. I will be doing a review on it soon, and if it is approved, I hope you will take a look :)
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100 Women: A Life Story of Sex and Redemption by Tyler True. Hilarious and highly entertaining. Also very insightful about a lot of things dealing with women and relationships.
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A Brief History of the French Revolution by Jeremy Popkin. I've always been fascinated by that period of history, and the book did a very good job of summing up the history behind the revolution.
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And the Good News Is....an autobio of Dana Perrino ( G.W. Bush's press sec. )...
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The Physiology of sex by Keneth walker
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suzy1124 wrote:And the Good News Is....an autobio of Dana Perrino ( G.W. Bush's press sec. )...
I remember her! I am going to put this book on my list, as I like books about political operatives.
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Read a memoir for this site. I cried so much but it was good!
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I read an autobiography of Chris Kyle called American Sniper.
I'm going to be honest in one thing. I haven't watched the movie, but I can assure you that the book should be the first thing you encounter before the movie.
If you want to research a little bit to get to know the setting of everything, you might want to research a little on what happened to the US before and after 9/11 (roughly from 1990's to mid 2000's).
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Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver would have to be the best book I've read in a while.
Also, 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher is a close second
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Outlaw platoon, absolutely brilliant war memoir from a very educated young man, and also co-authored by a military historian who embedded with a unit as research just to help co-author the book. Details some of the most intense fighting of the Afghanistan war.
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The latest good non-fictional work I've read is Mckenzie Wark's Molecular Red. Wark explores the implications of Anthropocene through the story of two empires, the Soviet and then the American. Everyone interested in soviet thinkers like Bogdanov and Platonov will be greatly satisfied. Molecular Red proposes an alternative realism to what Wark calls 'high-theory'. Wark's thinking outlines a 'low-theory' revolving around Bogdanov's tektological process, which according to Wark grounds us back into practice and the labor point of view.
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The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson is one of the best I've read recently.
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Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero by Vicki Croke.
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I'm currently reading Killing Patton by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. The first hundred pages have been very interesting.
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Into The wild by Jon Krakauer. A fantastic book, one of my favorites!
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