Books like Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
12 books with a reading profile close to Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance by Christopher McDougall. Growth-minded and clear-cut; an easy read.
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Also growth-minded and clear-cut · practical, narrative
Christopher McDougall begins with a simple question about his own chronic foot pain and ends up in Mexico’s Copper Canyons searching for the Tarahumara Indians.
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Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Maureen Callahan tells the stories of several women connected to the Kennedy family and argues that they were treated badly by the men around them and by the family's image-making.
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Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
by Bill Browder
Also growth-minded and clear-cut · history, narrative
After the Russian government murdered his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, financier Bill Browder pivoted from investing to international activism.
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The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Jonathan Harr chronicles the recovery of "The Taking of Christ," a Caravaggio masterpiece hidden in the dining room of a Jesuit residence in Dublin for decades.
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
by Samin Nosrat
Also clear-cut · practical, narrative
Samin Nosrat identifies four fundamental pillars that dictate whether food tastes balanced or dull.
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The Boys from Biloxi
by John Grisham
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
The story follows two childhood friends, Keith Rudy and Hughie Malco, whose families represent the internal struggle of Biloxi, Mississippi, during the mid-twentieth century.
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America's First Daughter
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph serves as the primary protector of Thomas Jefferson’s reputation and household throughout this narrative.
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by Chip Heath
Also growth-minded and clear-cut · practical, narrative
Chip Heath and Dan Heath argue that memorable ideas share six specific traits, organized under the SUCCES acronym: simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotions, and stories.
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Killing Jesus: A History
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard recount the political and social conditions leading to the execution of Jesus of Nazareth.
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The Astronaut Wives Club
by Lily Koppel
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Lily Koppel chronicles the lives of the women married to flight crews in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs.
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Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
General George S.
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