Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Nonfiction that reads like fiction

Here's a great reading list I found in The Book Club Companion: A Comprehensive Guide to the Reading Group Experience by Diana Loevy called "non-fiction that reads like fiction."

Devil in the White City: murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
by Erik Larson















Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of the New China
by Rachel DeWoskin













In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote













Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer












Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil
by John Berendt














Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
by Phyl
lis Rose








The Planets
by Dava Sobel














A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson

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