Go Book Yourself: Top 5 Non-Fiction Books 2014
Our favourite true tales of the year…
H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald for incredibly poetic, rich and beautiful writing in the story of a grieving woman raising a bird of prey.
Blue 52 by Leslie Jamison for the story of the world’s loneliest whale, 52, and the humans who found in him a kindred spirit.
Murder In Mississippi by John Safran for a thrilling and witty true crime journey through the deep south (God’ll Cut You Down in the US).
Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham for an at times controversial, yet insightful book of essays.
The Trials Of White Boy Rick by Evan Hughes for the incredible true story of a 17-year old Detroit drug kingpin.
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In The Woods by Tana French
For more psychological thrills that’ll leave you wondering about the reliability of your own memory, try these:
Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda for a ghost story about teenage girls, grief, and forgetting.
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes for a scary-as-hell tale about how the internet never forgets.
Blue Monday by Nicci French for a psychologist navigating the no-man’s-land between dreams, memory,and reality.
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes for a Booker Prize-winning take on how we narrate our own history, truthfully or otherwise.
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
For more unique takes on WWII, try these…
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut for another classic satirical exploration of the madness of war.
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman for a madcap globetrotting WWII adventure that was long listed for the Man Booker Prize.
HHhH by Laurent Binet for a fictional retelling of the assassination of high ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, an architect of the Holocaust.
Look Who’s Back by Timur Vermes for a novel that has Hitler waking up alive in 2011, and gaining a cult following as a Hitler-impersonator.
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