Good Reads - Nonfiction
It’s True
Real Life Stories Worth Reading
153.12 PRI
The Woman Who Can’t Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science: A Memoir by Jill Price
155.937 DAI
Out of the Canyon: A True Story of Love and Loss by Art Daily
359.933 AND
The Ice Diaries: The Untold Story of the Cold War’s Most Daring Mission by William R. Anderson
362.175 DOS
Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat by David Dosa
362.196 KLA
Coronary: A True Story of Medicine Gone Awry by Stephen Klaidman
362.196748 ANA
The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million—and Bucked the Medical Establishment—in a Quest to Save His Children by Geeta Anand
362.7 COP
Jantsen’s Gift: A True Story of Grief, Rescue and Grace by Pam Cope
364.154 EKI
Birthright: The True Story That Inspired Kidnapped by A. Roger Ekirch
364.1552 GAR
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West by Mark L. Gardner
364.162 SEL
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby
364.163 SAL
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury
364.168 JAV
Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: Inside the Secret World of Corporate Espionage by Eamon Javers
615.856 BRO
Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock
616.02774 SKL
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
759.9492 DOL
The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Edward Dolnick
791.32 CHA
Jumbo: The Greatest Elephant in the World by Paul Chambers
796.42 MAC
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super-athletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Ever Seen by Christopher McDougall
799.16 KIN
The Big One: An Island, an Obsession, and the Furious Pursuit of a Great Fish by David Kinney
910.916346 TOU
The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue by Mike Tougias
918.11 GRA
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
919.41 CHA
Swimming with Crocodiles: A True Story of Adventure and Survival by William Chaffey
940.5318 DES
The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews by Patrick Desbois
940.548641 MAC
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
941.07 MOO
Wedlock: The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore by Wendy Moore
944.361 JON
Eiffel’s Tower: And the World’s Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count by Jill Jonnes
956.70443 SIE
Fading Echoes: A True Story of Rivalry and Brotherhood from the Football Field to the Fields of Honor by Mike Sielski
974.71 GOO
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York by Matthew Goodman
978.02 RAR
Desperate Passage: The Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West by Ethan Rarick
979.438 WOO
A Wall of White: The True Story of Heroism and Survival in the Face of a Deadly Avalanche by Jennifer Woodlief
Biography HARI, M.
Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari by Pat Shipman
Biography PAMPHILI, O.M.
Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini, the Secret Female Pope by Eleanor Herman
Biography ROOT, J.
Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa by Mark Seal
Prepared by Lori Sennebogen, May 2010 |
