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

[Squishedpickle]

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!

factfullness: ten reasons were wrong about the world and why things are better than you think by Hans Rosling. A real eye opener as to how the world really is in regards to povety, climate change and population growth.

Michelle Obama’s autobiography
This is going to hurt-Adam Kay

One I reread recently was 90 Degrees North by Fergus Fleming. I’ve got a thing about polar exploration so love anything to do with that. And mountaineering - the other books by the author of Touching the Void are good, especially the one about the Eiger.

And Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman which is a collection of essays on literature and writing.

The Five by Hallie Rubenhold.

It will change your perceptions of the five victims of Jack the Ripper. By the way, it's not a gorefest and he plays a very minor role in the book.

This is going to hurt - Adam Kay and Unnatural Causes - Richard Shepherd...both brilliant

Space: 10 Things You Should Know by Dr Becky Smethurst

Granted, I've not very many non-fiction ones that I can think of off-hand this year, and this is a very short and not a very indepth book, but I enjoyed it for what it is.

I've just read a This is going to hurt by Adam Kay - and have been recommending it to everyone who'll listen, it's really funny and simultaneously very touching and infuriating.

Samuel Pepys diaries fascinating look into 16 hundreds England, he was there when Charles 1st was beheaded ,through the reformation, the great plague, the great fire of London, Charles 2nd returning and wrote about these on a daily basis as someone in court and high up in the admiralty its like stepping right back as an observer that no one can see

My Will by Nicola Vivian. Outstanding

Low born by Kerry Hudson

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

It’s the story of Elizabeth Holmes and her Silicon valley start up Theranos. I found it quite jaw dropping.

Black diamonds (coal mining and the little known history of wentworth house)
The man who played with fire (stieg larsen’s investigation into the Olaf Palme assassination)

How to be a Victorian, by Ruth Goodman. Absolutely fascinating, especially as she's tried a lot of the things out herself, like the clothing.

Loads of good recommendations here, can I second Stephanie Shirley's Let IT go, it's an amazing book /life story that should be better known.

Bad Blood mentioned above is incredibly gripping if you want an edge-of-the-seat read.

Michelle Obama's autobiog
A Short History of Britain - Simon Jenkins.

I also enjoyed two books by Pamela Druckerman;French Children Don’t Throw Food and There are no Grown-Ups

Black Diamonds & Agent Zigzag (though wasn’t this year)

The Spy and the Traitor by Ben McIntyre. A factual Cold War thriller.

I’m a few chapters in to The Secret Poisoner by Linda Stratman about Victorians slipping each other arsenic and the like. Also enjoyed The Five and Unnatural Causes as mentioned above. Ma’am Darling is a great read about Princess Margaret. More of a fictionalised work about a real person - A Well Behaved Woman about Alva Vanderbilt. I find Foyle’s nonfiction section really good for picking up interesting things I don’t notice elsewhere.

East West Street by Philippe Sands
Is stunning and thought provoking, about the immediate post war era when ideas about human rights and genocide were being turned from theories into international laws.

Thomas Cromwell by Diarmaid MacCulloch
A fascinating biography, which places Cromwell centrally in the context of European political and religious developments.

The Cut Out Girl by Bart Van Es.

Came on to say Invisible Women. Given three away now.
everyone should read!

Municipal Dreams The Rise and Fall of Council Housing by John Boughton.

Bad blood.
Unbelievable story