Recs if you like Dispatches...
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the high water mark of American power and prestige. Before Vietnam, Americans believed in the honesty and decency of their leaders, that American values could be easily exported, that our mission would succeed. That faith bled away in the jungles of Southeast Asia. This list covers the origins of the war to its closing consequences, from the Mekong Delta to the Central Highlands to the skies over Hanoi and conference rooms in Paris.
Mary Karr's Required Reading: Memoirs & Hybrids
Abridged list curated by Mary Karr in Art of Memoir (2015). I've selected only the books she's denoted to be "better written" as the original list is seven pages long.
to expand your world view
a collection of fiction and nonfiction texts on gender, race, culture, history, politics that feel like absolute must reads
The Folio Society Collection
A list of all the books that the Folio Society has made special editions of.
