Category: non-fiction
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I had thought that learning about L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology in Going Clear by Lawrence Wright would have been the kookiest and nuttiest thing I’d ever read regarding religion and cults. Charles Manson is definitely another very weird chapter in American history, but I feel that both can’t really compare to the story of the…
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If there was one defining moment I had to pick that captured the golden days of sports television entertainment, it undoubtedly would have been the rise of WCW and the nWo. You just had to be there and witness it as it unfolded in real time to truly understand and appreciate the genius of it…
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As someone who is not familiar with the JFK assassination that happened in the early 1960s, The Housewives Underground by Kaitlyn Tiffany is surprisingly a very good start and not for what you’d first expect. After more than six decades, there are a lot of books on this subject and I’m sure each of them…
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I’ve always had a fascination with processed food. I think many people believe it’s bad for your health but may not actually know why that is, myself included. This book on ultra-processed food can help bridge that gap, but don’t expect it to be easy reading. Science can be hard to understand, and I believe…
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How can any of this story be true? And yet, it is. The story of Virginia Hall likely goes down as one of the most incredible stories of a woman from the World War II era that I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading about. Not only did her actions help save countless lives during…
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I’ve read a couple of investigative journalism novels by Erik Larson, and they were mostly enjoyable. The Devil in the White City, while still enjoyable, warrants a strong caution for any readers thinking this will be yet another typical true crime thriller in which either the hunt for or the life of the criminal dominates…
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Chalk this one up as another must-read novel for fans of nonfiction true crime and investigative journalism. It’s an incredible story about a serial killer in Italy that began in the late 1960s and has yet to be identified to this day—and likely never will be. In this book, a local crime reporter teams up…
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I’ll be honest. If I were to one day meet a sudden, mysterious, and untimely death, I’d likely want this author to investigate and write a book about it. Say Nothing was a great read and introduced me to him. I saw London Falling as one of his newest books to come out, read a…
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Let’s face it. Not many journalists can do what the author of this book did. To investigate a story and crime in the past, regardless of how infamous it is, for nearly twenty years is quite an achievement. The amount of frustration due to roadblocks and threats would likely make all but the most seasoned…
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Books like All the Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer are considered essential reads at the beginning of 2026. With the United States having attacked Iran, it is especially important to have some understanding of the history between these two countries and how that relationship has soured since the 1980s and earlier. To my surprise, All…
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