(just a warning: most of these books are very heavy material-wise)
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last updated June, 2026
Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice
David Enrich
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Stephen E. Ambrose
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
Cornelius Ryan
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Malcolm Gladwell
Win at All Costs: Inside Nike Running and Its Culture of Deception
Matt Hart
The Russian Affair: The True Story of the Couple who Uncovered the Greatest Sporting Scandal
David Walsh
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court
Bob Woodward
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
Robert Kurson
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann
Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story
Patrick K. O'Donnell
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
Andrew Scull
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort, 1941-1945
Richard Overy
See Here, Private Hargrove
Marion Hargrove
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
Eugene B. Sledge
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Daniel James Brown
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Kate Moore
You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger
Roger Hall
Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II
We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
David Howarth
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand
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