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Nonfiction that's actually fun to read

by Irenelikesbooks

These are some of my favorites and books I want to read--nonfiction that reads like fiction or is otherwise compelling. If you're intimidated by books on history, science, memoir, or other subgenres in nonfiction, start here.

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Central Asian Non-Fiction

Eastern Approaches

The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia

Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus

Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies and Maps in 19th-century Asia

Eastern Approaches

The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia

Babuskhkas, Babka and Borscht

by anotherbritinthewall

Lit from and about Eastern and Southeastern Europe

The Master and Margarita

Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway and the Northeast Passage

Depeche Mode

The Master and Margarita

Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

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