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Jon Krakauer reconstructs the 1996 Everest disaster, which he lived through as a journalist on a commercial expedition, in a story of ambition, money and the mountain's indifference.
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Into the Wild
In 1992 Chris McCandless, a gifted young college graduate, gave away his savings, walked into the Alaskan wilderness to live off the land and was found dead months later, and Jon Krakauer reconstructs why.
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
A Colombian navy sailor washed off a destroyer in 1955 tells how he survived ten days adrift on a raft in the Caribbean without food or water.
First They Killed My Father
Loung Ung's memoir of the Khmer Rouge years, from her family's flight from Phnom Penh when she was five to her training as a child soldier and her escape.
Endurance
The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition: the ship trapped in ice, the crew stranded on a frozen sea, and the impossible rescue that saved all twenty-seven men.
March: Book One
Congressman John Lewis's graphic memoir of the civil rights movement, from his Alabama childhood to the march on Selma.
The River
Two college friends paddle a remote Canadian river, and what begins as adventure becomes a fight for survival when they encounter a threat.
Educated
Tara Westover grew up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho, never sent to school or taken to a doctor, and taught herself enough to get into college, a journey that led to a Cambridge PhD.
Down and Out in Paris and London
Orwell's account of being broke in the late 1920s, washing dishes in the steaming basement of a Paris hotel and tramping between London's casual wards with the homeless men of England.
Underground
Murakami's interviews with survivors of the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, and with members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult behind it, set beside his own essay on what the attack revealed about Japan.
Green Hills of Africa
Hemingway's account of a month on safari in East Africa in 1933, hunting kudu across the plains and arguing about writing around the campfire.
Know My Name
The woman known in court only as Emily Doe writes back against the Brock Turner trial transcript and reclaims her own voice, her own family, and her own sentences.
Voices from Chernobyl
Monologues from people who lived through the Chernobyl disaster of 1986: firemen's widows, evacuees, resettlers and the men sent in to clean up.