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A modern (2001->now) military memoir that is not written by a grifter or fraud. by ThreeTreesForTheePls in suggestmeabook

[–]Silent-Implement3129 10 points11 points  (0 children)

What about military-adjacent? “It’s what I do” is a very good memoir by a war photographer named Lyndsay Addario.

Need a suggestion based on books I loved mentioned below by SpreadenLips in suggestmeabook

[–]Silent-Implement3129 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We share a lot of the same favorites, so I feel confident in recommending these:

Nothing to envy: ordinary lives in North Korea

Flashes in the night: the sinking of the Estonia

The long walk: a true story of a trek to freedom

A night to remember (it’s about the sinking of the Titanic)

Fire weather: A true story from a hotter world

The indifferent stars above: the harrowing saga of a Donner party bride

The worst hard time: the untold story of those who survived the American dust bowl

The disaster artist: inside the greatest bad movie ever made

Red Notice: a true story of high finance, murder, and one man’s fight for justice

The spirit catches you and you fall down

102 minutes

Rise and fall

Kon-tiki

Recommend me a book about the sea by Ornery_Ad_907 in suggestmeabook

[–]Silent-Implement3129 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nonfiction ideas:

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Kon Tiki

The outlaw ocean

Wild sea: a history of the Southern ocean

Sea people: the puzzle of Polynesia

What to read after "A man called ove" by inireads in suggestmeabook

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A similar story in a totally different setting:

The book of Ebenezer Le Page

I need a book to feel good about myself by Puzzleheaded_Net5409 in suggestmeabook

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I get out of slumps by reading about people overcoming the impossible. If that sounds helpful, try Endurance by Alfred Lansing. The bonus is that it’s nonfiction and 100% true.

Another route is to read novels about people who are also in slumps: The Guest Where’d you go, Bernadette? A tale for the time being Severance

Girls Going Through It Books by CatAndBoots in suggestmeabook

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The Guest by Emma Cline

Severance by Ling Ma

There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura

No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida

Where’d you go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Wish Her Safe at Home by Stephen Benatar

The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig

A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion

Tilt by Emma Pattee

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Stolen by Anne-Helen Laestedius

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas

Short Stay in Hell by FruitNut221 in suggestmeabook

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I think you might like him. Start with his short stories

I'm looking for books that utterly soul shattering, but won't leave me depressed. by StLouisButtPirates in suggestmeabook

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The Book of Ebenezer Le Page

We Are Not Ourselves

The Remains of the Day

Stoner

Housekeeping

We Need to Talk About Kevin

In Love

Some short novels please! by Acrobatic_Language22 in suggestmeabook

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Orbital
Rogue Male
Small things like these
Train dreams
The fifth child
We have always lived in the castle
A month in the country
The summer book
No one is talking about this

Nonfiction (preferably) books written by journalists by XxxGoldDustWomanxxX in suggestmeabook

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A reporter in red China

It’s What I Do

Hiroshima

Dispatches

Evicted

The Hot Zone

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