Gregg Easterbrook's Blog - Posts Tagged "nonfiction-recommendations"

Here are nonfiction books of unusual merit, that have informed my understanding of the human condition:

The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam

The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt

The Promised Land by Nicholas Lemann

There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz

Dreadnaught by Robert Massie. (Worst book title ever; sounds like the book is about battleships, subject is how Europe blundered into World War I)

The March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

My Lai 4 by Seymour Hersh

Boss by Mike Royko

History of Standard Oil by Ida Tarbell (hard to read today, but the book that began modern journalism; try the abridged version)