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García Márquez's account of the kidnapping of ten Colombian journalists and public figures by Pablo Escobar's Medellín cartel in 1990, taken as leverage against extradition to the United States.
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In Cold Blood
Capote's reconstruction of the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family by two drifters, braided from police files, interviews, and his own long friendship with the killers on death row.
This House of Grief
Garner follows the trials of Robert Farquharson, who drove his car into a dam on Father's Day 2005 and drowned his three sons, and asks whether he meant to.
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.
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.
Living to Tell the Tale
The first volume of García Márquez's memoirs, from his childhood in his grandparents' house in Aracataca to his years as a young journalist in Cartagena and Barranquilla, up to 1955.
The Executioner's Song
The last nine months in the life of Gary Gilmore, paroled in Utah in 1976, who killed two men and then demanded to be executed.
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Katharina Blum, a quiet housekeeper, spends a carnival night with a young man the police are hunting, and a tabloid newspaper turns her life into a story.
Zinky Boys
Testimony from Soviet soldiers who fought in Afghanistan, and from the mothers who received their sons home in zinc coffins.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
A journalist investigates a real-life Savannah murder and discovers a city where eccentrics, drag queens, and voodoo practitioners live alongside old-money aristocrats.
The Unwomanly Face of War
An oral history of the Soviet women who fought in the Second World War, as snipers, pilots, tank drivers, medics and laundresses, in their own voices.
Into Thin Air
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.
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.