Books like Assassination Vacation
12 books with a reading profile close to Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell. Outward-looking; an easy read.
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The Diamond Eye
by Kate Quinn
history, entertainment
In 1937 Kiev, Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a quiet history student and single mother who finds her life upended by the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Garrett M.
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
by Erik Larson
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Erik Larson reconstructs the final 1915 voyage of the luxury ocean liner Lusitania, tracking its path from New York toward the Irish coast during the early stages of World War I.
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The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
history, entertainment
The story follows two women across different eras whose lives intersect in 1947.
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The Bookseller of Kabul
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Following the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad lived with the family of Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul who risked imprisonment to preserve Afghan literature.
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
by David Grann
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
In 1925, British explorer Percy Fawcett entered the Amazon jungle to locate a hidden civilization he named "Z," believing it to be the birthplace of complex South American culture.
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot
by Sarah Vowell
Also outward-looking · history, entertainment
Sarah Vowell examines the tension between personal skepticism and national identity through a series of essays centered on American history and pop culture.
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Flags of Our Fathers
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
James Bradley reconstructs the lives of the six men who raised the American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
In the early 1940s, the United States government constructed Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a secret city carved out of rural farmland to house seventy thousand residents working on the Manhattan Project.
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Dodger
entertainment, narrative
In the rain-slicked filth of Victorian London, a tosher named Dodger earns his living scavenging through the city sewers.
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The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
by Bill Bryson
Also outward-looking · entertainment, narrative
Twenty years after his first tour of Britain, Bill Bryson returns to traverse the island along a route he names the Bryson Line, stretching from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath.
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
In this historical account, Nathaniel Philbrick examines the fifty-year period beginning with the 1620 arrival of the Pilgrims and culminating in the devastation of King Philip’s War.
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