Books like The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
12 books with a reading profile close to The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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Cleopatra: A Life
by Stacy Schiff
history, analytical
Stacy Schiff strips away centuries of Roman propaganda and cinematic myth to reconstruct the life of the last pharaoh of Egypt.
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
history, analytical
Patrick Radden Keefe reconstructs the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten taken from her Belfast home by the Irish Republican Army.
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
history, biography
Tracy Kidder follows the life and medical philosophy of Dr.
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
history, analytical
Walter Isaacson reconstructs the life of Albert Einstein by utilizing newly released personal letters to connect his scientific achievements with his defiant personality.
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
history, analytical
Erik Larson weaves together the true accounts of two men who shaped Chicago during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.
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Leonardo da Vinci
history, analytical
Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s private notebooks, Walter Isaacson reconstructs the daily life and mental habits of the Renaissance polymath.
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
by Jon Krakauer
history, analytical
Jon Krakauer traces the life of Pat Tillman from his career as an NFL safety for the Arizona Cardinals to his death by friendly fire in eastern Afghanistan.
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
history, analytical
During the 1920s, the Osage Nation in Oklahoma became the wealthiest people per capita in the world after oil was discovered beneath their reservation.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
history, analytical
Yuval Noah Harari tracks the biological and social evolution of Homo sapiens from our origins as a minor African primate to our current dominance over the biosphere.
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
history, analytical
Vincent Bugliosi, the lead prosecutor in the Tate-LaBianca trials, provides a chronological account of the 1969 murders and the subsequent investigation into Charles Manson and his followers.
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
history, biography
In 1879, James Murray began the monumental task of compiling the first Oxford English Dictionary, a project requiring the categorization of every word in the language alongside its chronological history.
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