“Midnight in Chernobyl” by Adam Higgenbotham. Couldn’t put it down. “Shadow Divers” and “Blind Mans Bluff” are excellent reads.
Just started 12 Rules for Life yesterday."These Truths" Jill Lepore
"Blind Man's Bluff" Sontag & Drew
"Candy Bombers" Andrei Cherny
"Shadow Divers" Robert Kurson
"The Doomsday Machine" Daniel Ellsberg
"The Gulag Archipelago" Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"12 Rules for Life" Jordan Peterson
"Fearless" Eric Blehm
All fantastic books and you get to learn something as a bonus
You're welcome. I forgot to mention one of my other favorite mystery writers, Rex Stout. His Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin private eye series I discovered when I was 12, and I reread at least 2 or 3 of his novels every year, even when I remember who the murderer is. Now that's writing.Benzadmiral: thank you for the suggestions sir
I reread the Narnia books regularly - it seems that the more I read them, the more I see things I'd missed previously. Lewis was a brilliant writer.I don't know if you get into fiction, but the Chronicles of Narnia series was pretty good. Each individual book isn't 500 pages, so that was nice. There is another shorter novel by Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Grey. It was good literature, kind of philosophical reflection on human nature. Sherlock Holmes stories were my introduction to detective fiction. If you want something longer, you could try Raymond Chandler & Dashiel Hammet, who wrote stories that a lot of those old 1940s detective movies featuring Bogart were based on. If you are into racier detective stories, the James Bond series of novels by Ian Fleming was pretty good, Diamonds are Forever is probably my fav of his novels. If you are into politics, you might enjoy 1984.
After years of insisting that I didn't like reading ebooks, I bought a Kindle Fire tablet and have read several on it. At some point in the next year it will have paid for itself--archive.org has an ebook lending library that only requires a login, no paid subscription at all, usually give you 14 days to finish an ebook.
Typo? Forge??Freedom's Gorge - Herman
biography, history, aviation. I’ll read anything except romance stuff LOL!