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12 books with a reading profile close to Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder. Outward-looking; a moderate read.

1

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

by Nathaniel Philbrick

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.
2

Germany

by Neil MacGregor

Also outward-looking · history, narrative

Neil MacGregor examines five centuries of German history through the lens of thirty specific objects and monuments.
3

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

by Victoria Finlay

Also outward-looking · history, narrative

Victoria Finlay tracks the physical origins of artistic pigments by traveling to the remote geographical sources of the rainbow.
4

The Bookseller of Kabul

by Åsne Seierstad

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.
5

Aftermath

by Harald Jähner

Also outward-looking · history, narrative

Harald Jähner chronicles the decade between 1945 and 1955, examining the logistical and psychological survival of Germans in a nation fractured into occupation zones.
6

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.
7

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

by Daniel James Brown

history, narrative

Daniel James Brown reconstructs the 1846 Donner Party disaster through the specific experiences of Sarah Graves, a twenty-one-year-old newlywed traveling west from Illinois.
8

Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

by Piers Paul Read

history, narrative

In October 1972, a Fairchild FH-227D carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed into the remote glaciers of the Andes Mountains.
9

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

by Bill Bryson

Also outward-looking · history, narrative

Bill Bryson traces the development of the English language from its obscure Germanic origins into a dominant global tongue.
10

Consider the Eel

by Richard Schweid

Also outward-looking · history, narrative

Richard Schweid tracks the biological lifecycle of the eel from its mysterious breeding grounds in the Sargasso Sea to its development in the freshwater rivers of Europe and North America.
11

The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

by Garrett M. Graff

Also outward-looking · history, narrative

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12

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

by Timothy Egan

Also outward-looking · history, narrative

In the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan moved beyond the deep South to establish a stronghold in the American Midwest, specifically Indiana.

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