Books

I have 7 unused Audible credits. Shill me some good non-fiction reading.

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The Power Broker
The LBJ books by Caro
Dispatches by Michael Herr
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger (or War, or any of his stuff)
The Ancient City
A Time of Gifts 
My Family and Other Animals 
The Age of Gold 
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
The Geek Way
Zero to One
Sailing Alone Around the World 
Cod or Salt by Mark Kurlansky
Seeing like a State
Super Thinking 
In Cold Blood
The Year of Magical Thinking 
The Selfish Gene
The Innocents Abroad (or any of Twain’s travel writing)
anything by Bill Bryson 
The Right Stuff
The Electric Koolaid Acid Test
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
Hackers and Painters
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Down and Out in Paris and London 
Homage to Catalonia 
A Moveable Feast
The Botany of Desire
Getting to Maybe 
the Gladwell books 
Freakonomics
The Glass Castle 
Speak, Memory
any Joseph Campbell stuff
Bad Blood
The Art of War
any of Oliver Sacks’ work, but especially his autobiography 
Krakauer’s books