I like to read nonfiction when I travel to expand my worldview, and these are some of my favorites that I've read while posted up on various beaches and trains around the globe
Sections
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Pop Science
Politics and Sociology
Memoirs and Biographies
Pop Science
Science is cool!
everything really does lead back to tuberculosis
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“what happens to your body when you die but tell me in a way that makes me laugh the entire time”
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Politics and Sociology
You don't understand anything until you understand how and why people engage with each other in the way that they do
fascinating story about how the one child policy impacted this family with twin sisters separated in their youth
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
do you know someone who has been impacted by an opioid overdose? it's this families fault and this book will explain how
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
the stories of 5 north Korean defectors
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Memoirs and Biographies
The best way to learn more about people is to read the innermost thoughts of someone who lives differently from you
the voice of her generation
Famesick: A Memoir - Lena Dunham
from one of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein. trigger warnings for everything you would expect, but incredibly moving and raw
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice - Virginia Giuffre
on surviving one of the worst disasters on Everest
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster - Jon Krakauer
