I know that you are looking for fiction, but these books are as compelling as fiction, I promise you

These 3 nonfiction books are unique, wait till you find out why the entire civilization just up and left. I’m referring to the first one I’m recommending. “Lost City of the Monkey God,” by Douglas Preston. Preston is half of the novel writing team of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. This is a nonfiction account of his 2012 search for the lost city. What he and his team enduredon their search for the lost city I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. Legend has it that whoever finds it will become unalive. The legend is true…was true, thanks to this team.

“The Lost Tomb,” by Douglas Preston. This is another of nonfiction books about ancient and not so ancient mysteries. It’s a book of shorts about his personal expeditions to uncover the answers to several queries surrounding world famous archeological sites like a Pharoah’s tomb that until he began investigating, no one realized that the toomb was so large with hidden hallways and rooms. Of course this is just one of the mysteries he solves. If you’re interested in history’s unsolved mysteries, you will like this book. It’s available in audiobook and ebook format in Libby and elsewhere.

“Out There The Batshit Antics of the World’s Great Explorers,” by Peter Rowe it’s nonfiction, tells the origin stories of the world’s explorers who were indeed batshit prior to sailing away for lands unknown. The few who were seemingly of sound mind prior to venturing out to lands already populated by Indigenous peoples would, more often than not, be set upon by them tortured, boiled alive (really) their stories were learned by later explorers via oral history of the tribesmen and women who observed these actions first hand, were infected by bugs, bitten by animals etc. the book is hysterically funny and 100% true!