What's the best non fiction book you've read this year?

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Hi, I'm looking for some recommendations for good non fiction books please. What book have you read recently that have been interesting and engaging? No particular topic, just looking to broaden my horizons a bit.

Thanks!

Bare Faced Messiah.
It's quite old, but brilliant. It's the actual biography of LR Hubbard. Each chapter starts with a quote from his "official" biography then goes into detail about what actually happened. It's both funny and sad at the same time!

Chocolate Wars by Deborah Cadbury
I keep meaning to read some of her others as well. It reads so well and I am usually a bit of a snob about books not being academically rigorous enough.

Hokkaido Highway Blues- sarcastic bugger hitchhikes through Japan. Really enjoyed it.

Secret Barrister - Stories of the Law and how it's broken.

Inferior (How Science Got Women Wrong) by Angela Saini.

Mindhunter by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker (grim but interesting)

I second a pp's recommendation of The Secret Barrister. I also enjoyed How to be Right in a World Gone Wrong by James O'Brien. Just read Truth to Power by Jess Phillips.

Invisible Women

Let it Go . The memoirs of the incredible lady Dame Stephanie Shirley .
PLEASE READ IT EVERYONE :)

In Shock by Rana Awdish

I haven't read much non-fiction this year. The others were I Am Malala, In Extremis by Lindsey Hilsum (biography of war reporter Marie Colvin) and In the Days of Rain by Rebecca Stott about growing up in a cult.

Unnatural Causes. Dr Richard Shepherd.

The Library Book by Susan Orlean. Wonderful.

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Heartland by Nathan Filer
Utopia for Realists and How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman
The Cyber Effect by Mary Aiken

Michelle Obama’s autobiography. Good quality and interesting read.

Vietnam by Max Hastings or John Husseys Waterloo books.

Invisible Women, by Caroline Criado Perez. Eye-opening.

The five - the stories of the lives of the women killed by jack the ripper

Another vote for Invisible Women, also In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri.

Another vote for Invisible Women!!

Eye opening and blood boiling at the same time - I recommend this to EVERYONE 👍

Invisible Women here too!

Also The Remarkable Life of the Skin and The Hidden Life of Trees

Ooh and Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine

I'm glad so many people liked Invisible Women. It's in the "to read" pile of books next to my bed.

Clothes clothes clothes Boys boys boys music music music by viv Albertine . She was in the slits- really well written auto biog of the punk years and the 80s

Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk (I read in about 3 hrs).
I'm currently going thru Preet Bharara's book. It's ok, but too philosophical for my taste.
I've got a couple Dervla Murphy books... but I think she also includes too much of her own opinions.

A gripping read was Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson.

I thought the Michelle Obama book was dull & too long.
Do No Harm (Henry Marsh) is quite unput-downable, though.

I was just browsing recommendations on Good Reads, & can endorse
Half-Broke Horses, In the Heart of the Sea, H is for Hawk, The Islamist (Ed Hussein), How Bullshit Conquered the World. I'm just assuming OP has read Touch the Void & Angela's Ashes.

In Extremis.
It's Lindsay Hilsum's biography of Marie Colvin, Times war corespondent killed in Syria. She was extraordinary, and difficult.

Erebus: the story of a ship by Michael Palin. Sounds boring but was totally gripping

Science(ish) by Rick Edwards and Dr Michael Brooks.

It takes apart the science in films like Jurassic Park, Martian, 28 Days Later and a few more and covers a whole load of things.
Really interesting and funny too.