Reddit mentions: The best south america history books

Can I give you a list? Imma give you a list with a little from each category. I LOVE books and posts like this!

Non-fiction or Books About Things:

The Lost City of Z: In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century. Cumberbatch will play him in the movie version of this.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers: Hilariously gross and just super interesting. Her writing is like a non-fiction Terry Pratchett. Everything she's written is great, but this one is my favorite.

Devil in the White City: All about HH Holmes and his murder hotel during the Chicago World's Fair. Incredibly well-written and interesting.

The Outlaw Trail: Written in 1920 by the first superintendent of Capitol Reef National Park (aka, the area around Robber's Roost). He went around interviewing the guys who were still alive from the original Wild Bunch, plus some of the other outlaws that were active during that time. Never read anything else with actual interviews from these guys and it's a little slice of life from the end of the Wild West.

Fiction, Fantasy, Sci-Fi:

Here I'm only going to give you the less known stuff. You can find Sanderson (light epic fantasy), Pratchett (humor / satire fantasy), Adams (humor fantasy), etc easily in any bookstore. They are fantastic and should be read, but they are easy to find. I suggest:

The Cloud Roads: Martha Wells is an anthropologist and it shows in her world building in every series. She creates societies instead of landscapes. These are very character-driven and sometimes emotional.

The Lion of Senet: Jennifer Fallon starts a great political thriller series with this book. If you like shows like House of Cards or things where there's a lot of political plotting, sudden twists, and a dash of science v. religion, then you'll love these.

The Book of Joby: Do you want to cry? This book will make you cry. Mix arthurian legend with some God & Devil archetypes and it's just this very powerful story. Even though it deals with religious themes and icons, I wouldn't say it's a religious book. Reads more like mythology.

On Basilisk Station: Awesome military space opera. Really good sci-fi.

Grimspace: Pulpy space opera. Brain bubble gum instead of serious reading. But that's fun sometimes too!

Around the World in Wanderer III by Eric Hiscock is fantastic. If you're looking for a more instructional book I'd also advise Cruising Under Sail by the same author.

Hard to have any list about cruising without starting off without mentioning Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World as he was the inspiration for many of the following authors. He fixed a wrecked hulk of a sloop in a field in CT that he was given for free (as a joke) then proceeded to sail alone around the world (as the title would lead you to believe). At the time everyone thought that it would be impossible and likely suicidal to try and sail a boat so small around the globe and he apparently caused quite a stir when he did.

Of course The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier is an absolute classic for sailing literature. His was an account of the Golden Globe non-stop solo circumnavigational race, so there's not really any island hopping or drinks in paradise, but his writing is amazing and really gets to the zen of being at sea. He also named his boat JOSHUA after Cpt. Slocum mentioned above.

Jack London loved to sail and had a ketch (I thought it was a schooner, and Amazon page says schooner, but looking on GIS looks more like a ketch) built and sailed around the South Pacific and wrote about it in The Cruise of the Snark. London has some really funny commentary in there and it's a hell of a good read.

Last, and most expensive, is South Sea Vagabonds by John Wray. This book has been out of print for a little while and apparently is in high demand by looking at the price now. The cheapest I've ever seen it is between $40 and $50. I got my copy from a seller on eBay that lived in New Zealand for about $25 USD but after shipping ended up being about $40 total. That said, it was worth every penny. John Wray got fired from his job for daydreaming about sailing all day and since he had nothing but time on his hands decided to make a boat. Found all his wood on beaches and used his friends sailboat to haul it back to a mill, used a motorcycle and trailer to haul it from the mill to his house, then built a sloop with no prior ship-building experience. He sailed it all around the South Seas on various adventures and, like London, is a great and humorous author. Keep an eye out on ebay and used book sites for this one at a decent price (or find a library to borrow it from) because I guarantee that it's worth the effort and cash.

If you're into tall ships I just finished The Peking Battles Cape Horn by Irving Johnson which was a quick but thoroughly entertaining read. I'm now working my way through Two Years Before the Mast which is an amazing insight into the life of the merchant marine in the early 19th century aboard a square rigger.

I'm trying to find an online source for copper price manipulation. I originally read about it in Allende's Chile: The Political Economy of the Rise and Fall of the Unidad Popular but it's not excerpted much online. I loaned it to my sister so I don't have the book on hand >_<. We'll call that one a maybe, but you can see a dip coinciding pretty neatly with Allende's tenure. Obviously that's not proof but it's the best I have right now. Essentially the accusation was that the US released parts of it's copper reserves in 1970 as retaliation for the undervaluing of Anaconda and Kennecott in the nationalization scheme. Despite my best efforts I'm having a really hard time finding resources online that show the American Copper reserve levels over the last century. What the fuck am I doing with my life.

The economic mistakes made by Chavez pretty closely map to Allende's, although it's pretty difficult to know if he would have attempted to diversify the economy had he served his full term without having to deal with foreign interference at every turn. They were both shit with monetary policy, that much is obvious. They continued working in the framework of an extraction economy which is obviously a huge mistake. Countries are vulnerable when their sole source of income is natural resources, even if natural resources are probably the most just industry for nationalization.

What's interesting is the increase in wages did lead to an increase in consumer purchasing at first. The Chilean economy wasn't producing consumer goods, so they had a huge spike in their dependency on imports within the first six months of Allende's tenure. Those imports were targeted in a really surprisingly granular fashion. There was certainly a conspiracy of business interests to make borrowing and purchasing from American firms difficult. Without being able to meet consumer needs, the cost of goods skyrocketed. The same thing would happen here if one of our major trading partners decided to evaluate the purchases of American firms on a case by case basis.

My problem with that blogpost was that the author kind of dismissed out of hand the problems Chile was having with importing goods. Obviously you're going to have a hard time fostering growth if the most powerful country in the world, and one of your largest trading partners starts antagonizing your ability to buy goods. Ironically, ff the Chileans had managed to establish stronger economic ties with the Soviet Union from the start they probably would've fared a whole lot better. Small countries exist at the leisure of the superpowers. I read a quote from Nixon claiming that if Chile succeeded they'd put the US in the same position that the British Empire was in prior to WWI. It's interesting that Kissinger and Nixon really did take the view that these countries existed to service the requirements of the American Markets. It was a combination of bad monetary policy along with an overemphasis on self reliance that worked in concert with American meddling to cause the economic downturn.

Agreed that this is fun. Arguing with people in forums I disagree with is a great hobby until I start researching Nixon's copper reserve levels.

It's only partially related to this, but if you haven't read Naomi Klein's the Shock Doctrine I highly recommend it. I haven't seen and meaningful critiques with regards to the factual accuracy of the book, and it does a great job outlining the ways that Neoliberal institutions are designed from the bottom up to disintegrate states that don't conform to the American conception of governance. She's an ideologue so you have to deal with some incendiary language but I think everyone with an interest in geopolitics should read it.

Shining Path is not THE Communist Party of Perú. The original Communist Party was founded in 1928 by José Carlos Mariátegui under the name of "Socialist Party". Following the sino-soviet split in the late 60s, the maoist faction separated. Some members were fed up with a perceived bureacratism and inactivity in the soviet-aligned party (PCP-Unidad) and created the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) inspired by the Cuban revolution. All these guerrillas were quickly crushed by the Estate.

The chinese faction, PCP-Bandera Roja, counted among its founding members an obscure University professor named Abimael Guzmán who developed his own flavor of maoism named "Pensamiento Gonzalo" (Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-Pensamiento Gonzalo) and declared himself the "Fourth Sword" of communism.

Nowadays the main Communist Party of Perú is PCP-Patria Roja, another offshoot from Bandera Roja that reunited with Unidad and became a single party in 1968 (but claim continuity with the original 1928 Partido Socialista del Perú)

Thus, we have:

• PCP-Unidad (Unity)
  
• PCP-Bandera Roja (Red Flag)
  
• PCP-Patria Roja (Red Fatherland)
  
• PCP-Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path)
  
  There were many other fractions but I don't really have my references at hand, but these are some of the most salient ones. You should also consider the irruption of "New Left" politics after 1968 and the quite unique experience of a left-wing military dictatorship by Juan Velasco Alvarado (also this), who put forward one of the most radical Agrarian reforms in the continent. How to react to this regime was a central question and a very divisive factor among communists.
  
  I'm giving this panoramic view of Communist politics in Peru to avoid any conflation of Shining Path's criminal activities with the rest of parties, movements and leading figures.
  
  Now, if you're interested in reading more about Sendero Luminoso's history and ideology you should read the final report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) here. If you don't read spanish, some good English-language books on the topic are Carlos Ivan Degregori's analysis here. He was part of the Commission and was closely involved in the environment where Guzmán recruited his first followers at San Cristóbal de Huamanga University. Another author you should consult is Orin Starn, here is an article about Sendero by him.
  
  There's also this compilation with contributions by many academics. Most of the authors I have cited are anthropogists, which I consider provide the best descriptions and analysis not only because of the discipline's particular overview of social phenomena, but because the social sciences were very intimately related to left-wing politics and many of them were active in the parties mentioned.
  
  
  
  

> mostly outside here, he is mentioned with existentialism like Kant is with Utilitarianism but never held to the level of esteem or focus that reddit seems to.

While certainly less popular than Kant and Mill, Kierkegaard is nevertheless among the world’s most popular philosophers. According to the Leiter Reports, for instance, in 2009 he ranked 19 (with Kant at 3 and Mill at 14), and in 2017 he ranked 20 (with Kant still at 3, and Mill bumped up to 13).

It’s also worth noting that recent Kierkegaard scholarship has been very strong. One important contributing factor is Jon Stewart’s remarkable series, Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources. Recognition of his significance outside of existentialism has also been growing. Thus the numerous volumes on what we might call his “ontology and ethics of love,” such as Ferreira 2001, Hall 2002, Evans 2004, Mooney, ed. 2008, Krishek 2009, and Strawser 2015. Even Kierkegaard’s socio-political thought (Kierkegaard, political??) has been growing in perceived relevance: e.g., Westphal 1987, Connell and Evans, eds. 1992, and Backhouse 2011.

(That said, you are right, most Kierkegaard posts in r/philosophy are written by one author, i.e., yours truly.)

It really depends on what type of climbing you enjoy: adventure, sport, mountaineering, etc.

Here are some of my favourites:

If you like alpinism and want to learn how pathetic and weak willed you are compared to Steve House, check out Beyond the Mountain. Great book. Dude has insane ethics that make me feel bad for clipping bolts.

If you're more into big wall climbing and how it fits in with life lessons, The Push by Tommy Caldwell is phenomenal. He really throws it all out there and gives you an insight as to just how hard he worked to free the Dawn Wall and all the lessons that came with it.

If you want a really well written account of one of climbing's most bizarre controversies, The Tower by Kelly Cordes was one of my favourites this year. It gives a back-and-forth history and insight into climbing Cerro Torre and really gives a glimpse into life in Patagonia and the history of climbing Torre.

If you're a big dreamer and history nut, The Bold and The Cold gives first hand stories of the first ascents of some of the biggest routes in Canada. From the Bugaboos to Robson, it's a fantastic read and really gets you longing to get out out there.

Eiger Dreams was a fantastic collection of unrelated short stories centering around climbing and mountaineer. Some big characters and bigger adventures that are well told by the same author (and climber!) that gave us Into the Wild.

And finally, I recommend The Calling by Barry Blanchard for no other reason than it's a really well written account of the life of a fading alpinist in the Canadian Rockies.

Hope this helps!



Bonus recommendation: not climbing related, but a really great read for anyone who loves the outdoors: The Names of the Stars is a fantastic book that follows the personal account of a retired Park Ranger who spents 5 months alone in the wilderness of Montana watching fish eggs. It's a boring premise but the author is so vivid with his descriptions and shows the connection between us and the wild. I read it in a day, it was that good.

> Rarely do true believers stop to consider that there may be something wrong with the logic of socialism itself. In his 1993 book Post-Liberalism: Studies in Political Thought, the English philosopher John Gray wrote that Soviet socialism forced its subjects into a “vast Prisoner’s Dilemma, with each being constrained to act against his own interest and, thereby, directly or indirectly, to reproduce the order (or chaos) in which he is imprisoned. Thus Soviet subjects are compelled to compete with each other in climbing the rungs of the nomenklatura, pursuing the ordinary goods of life by party activism or, in extremis, by informing or denouncing one another, and so renewing daily the system that keeps them all captive.” These are not exactly optimal conditions for building community.
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> The money from the 2004 oil boom had saved Chávez from a recall referendum as he distributed the revenue flooding into the country among his followers. In this way, Chávez was able to fund his “revolution” from 2005 onwards. He ensured that the oil wealth would bypass the government, which he characterized as “corrupt” and (naturally) “counter-revolutionary.” Instead, money would be funnelled directly into a non-state-controlled corporate entity known as Fonden, the National Development Fund, over which, of course, Chávez personally presided. Fonden then parceled money out to cooperatives and the so-called “Missions” to the poor. During the oil boom, petroleum prices went from $10 a barrel to $100 and peaked at around $150 over the course of a decade. Given the astonishing amount of wealth generated, Chávez had a lot of money to throw at his pet projects. And, predictably, as the wealth trickled down, corruption increased since everyone had to get his or her piece of the patronage.
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> The cooperatives and community councils were among the many promising and inspiring initiatives dreamed up by Chávez in the early years of the boom. I witnessed these developments and documented them in my feature film, _Venezuela: Revolution from the Inside Out. There really did appear to be great enthusiasm for these initiatives at the grassroots, especially as Hugo Chávez pushed them forward with massive funding. I quickly joined the chorus of supporters, first as invited poet to the Second World Poetry Festival of Venezuela in July 2005, then as a freelance (that is, unpaid) journalist for various left-leaning websites. When Chávez appeared on the scene, there were under 2000 cooperatives in the country. Once he came to power, that number skyrocketed to nearly 200,000, and I was there to document their ups and downs. I attended a few community council meetings and “political formation” training sessions, as well as a number of oil-funded projects like community kitchens, cultural events, and community development programs. It felt like something was really happening and that a fairer society was being built.
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> When the Arab Spring swept Gaddafi from power, I argued with my Venezuelan friends and felt the beginnings of a great divide opening up between us. I didn’t like the company Chávez was keeping—Gaddafi, Putin, Hezbollah, etc.—but neither was I ready to denounce him and his project as a fraud. Meanwhile, as my wife and I compiled the interviews with the social movement activists in Latin America, we began to notice themes and threads that confirmed what Raul Zibechi had told us when we visited him in Montevideo, Uruguay in the spring of 2012.
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> Zibechi was an astute analyst of Latin American politics with a focus on social movements. He explained that the so-called “Pink Tide” of leftwing governments that had risen to power on the wave of the commodities boom were in fact following the prescription of Robert McNamara, the former president of the World Bank and architect of the Vietnam War under Lyndon Johnson. In this scenario, moderately progressive governments were far more useful than their rightwing homologues to the world elite, because they provided a buffer between the transnational corporations and the social movements protesting the impact of resource extraction on communities and the environment. The testimony of our interviewees seemed to bear out Zibechi’s thesis. But surely this couldn’t be true of the more “radical” processes, like the one unfolding in Venezuela?
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Well this will make it a lot easier for you, because the biggest barrier to getting really in depth is typically language. You will have access to lots of Spanish media. I find that history tends to be more fun at first when you have personal connections to countries or events, so after you learn about the basic history of colonization, I urge you to explore the history of Peru, and of Colombia/Venezuela/Panama. Did you know that Panama was actually a province of Colombia until the US decided to locate the canal there and supported Panamanian independence?

Start with the book I mentioned earlier, then I would suggest The Peru Reader: http://www.amazon.com/The-Peru-Reader-History-Politics/dp/0822336499/ref=pd_sim_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=0D5CS5PZ6FVTDQCMTVJ4. I have used both The Mexico Reader and The Argentina Reader in university, and assume the Peru Reader is of equal quality.

After that I would suggest couple of books on modern politics: Addicted to Failure: US Security Policy in the Andean Region and then and then Politics in Latin America by Charles H Blake. The drug war and US policy is hugely important and has repercussions across virtually all countries in Latin America.


http://www.amazon.com/Addicted-Failure-Security-American-Silhouettes/dp/0742540979/ref=sr_1_67?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416496742&sr=1-67&keywords=peru+drug+war

http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Latin-America-Charles-Blake/dp/0618802517/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416496989&sr=1-1&keywords=politics+in+latin+america

An biography or book about Simon Bolivar would also be ideal, given his role in shaping the nations of the Andean Region of South America.

Another poster mentioned Eduardo Galeano -- he is a brilliant writer, one of my favorites, but his books tend to be a bit polemic and philosophical...I definitely recommend reading his books in Spanish, but not until you already have a good grasp of history to understand a lot of the allusions and topics his writing touches upon.

And if you are comfortable reading academic texts in Spanish, Latinoamerica. Las ciudades y las ideas (Spanish Edition) by Jose Romero.

http://www.amazon.com/Latinoamerica-Las-ciudades-ideas-Spanish/dp/9876291521/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416497447&sr=1-1&keywords=jose+luis+romero

Anyhow this is more than enough to get you started, unless you had a more specific topic you want to learn about. Don't ignore literature, movies, or online newspapers either!! Going once or twice a week to some of the more major newspapers of specific countries to read articles is always interesting.

http://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Modern-Beauty-Plastic-Surgery/dp/0822348012 - Less about medicine, more of an ethanography, there was a huge brazilian population where I used to live.

>http://www.amazon.com/Improvising-Medicine-Oncology-Emerging-Epidemic/dp/0822353423 - your call, I've read others that are similar in the past (dark african hospitals, mom was a doctor, it came up) but this is apparently more popular now. 10 years ago it was the horror of aids, those books are almost unreadable, if it were any other subject you'd simply have trouble suspending disbelief. http://www.amazon.com/The-Paradox-Hope-Journeys-Borderland/dp/0520267354 is another similar book.

http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Shamans-Apprentice-Ethnobotanist-Medicines/dp/0670831379 - Is probably better if you don't want all the doom/gloom view of african medicine.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10235.Mountains_Beyond_Mountains - Figure you've read this, it's highly recommended and extremely popular now, part of the whole 're-imagining medicine' movement.

>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161121.My_Own_Country - Speaking of my mom, she was a doctor near here, it's definitely a different world.

http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Mistook-His-Wife/dp/0684853949 - Read it because of the neuroscience aspect, but I suppose you could consider it a very specialized ethanography of sorts.

Honestly the most popular nowadays is probably the one about the Hmong girl in my first post. I'd recommend it more because I've known a few Hmong and the cultural differences are fascinating.

Hi, I'd like to help you in your search for places to visit. I know some really good guides of Colombia. They are the "Moon" Travel Guides - Colombia. These were written by an american guy called Andrew Dier. In them you can read about various places throughout the country and how to get there. Also you can find things like, special festivities such as carnavals and fairs and when to come.

Here is the link to it: http://moon.com/explore/colombia/

You can also buy the book on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Moon-Colombia-Handbooks-Andrew-Dier/dp/161238627X/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0ZMK6RBR4RGV0M90RE2B

Spotlight on Cartagena and the Caribbean: http://www.amazon.com/Spotlight-Cartagena-Colombias-Caribbean-Coast/dp/163121098X/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0ZMK6RBR4RGV0M90RE2B

Spotlight on Bogota: http://www.amazon.com/Moon-Spotlight-Bogot%C3%A1-Andrew-Dier/dp/1631210971/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=0ZMK6RBR4RGV0M90RE2B

Spotlight on Medellin and the Coffee Region: http://www.amazon.com/Spotlight-Medell%C3%ADn-Colombias-Coffee-Region/dp/1631210998/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1T8P4VQ3ZPK3J7R9E4K6

I hope you find it useful. Oh, by the way, the guy who wrote this guide came here just as a tourist and was so amazed by the country that he stayed here. Its been twelve years now.

First of all, thank you so much for the compliment. Brazil is a really interesting country and has a lot of unique things, specially due to the heterogeneity of the population.

I'm not really sure about books in English, but there's an author "Boris Fausto", whose book is the first that comes to mind. This book, published by USP (the most important university in Brazil) is the one I have. I haven't read all of it, due to being busy lately, but I believe it gives a good feeling about Brazil, even though he doesn't cover some cultural aspects and movements, like the Modern Art Week of 1922. So, if I had to indicate someone, it would be him. His "[A Concise History of Brazil]"(https://www.amazon.com/Concise-History-Brazil-Cambridge-Histories/dp/1107635241/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8) is available in English and the comments on Amazon seems to be positive. So I would check it out, for starters. I don't know about any foreign historians or geopolitical writers that cover Brazil in depth.

I believe that, if you read his book and did some research about the culture, you'd get a firm grasp of Brazil.

1. Fair, the skull fragment they found and kept was found to be that of a female. There was an analysis done on tooth fragments though that were conclusive.
   
   
2. I recall seeing a photo of what was supposed to be the remains of his body after being taken outside of the bunker and burned by the Russians. It could have been anyone though.
   
   
3. I mean, yes there was. That's literally what the Führerbunker was for. It's a place you go when the shit is hitting the fan, and the shit was most certainly hitting the fan. There was no escape, Berlin was falling.
   
   
4. He refused to escape or flee the country. Everything he did in his life (politically at least) was for Germany and the German people. He always said and stayed true to it that he would never leave Germany in the face of defeat and he would die with it.
   
   
5. It wasn't just losing a war, for him it was losing Germany. The whole point of everything he did for Germany was to raise it back to greatness after the disgrace that it was left with after WWI. And he did. He raised Germany out of the greatest depression in its history and make it a world super power to the point where they almost took over Europe. It wasn't just a war that he lost, he lost Germany and in his eyes he led the thing he loved the most to destruction. Not only destruction, but destruction at the hands of Bolshevism and the jews. He lost everything.
   
   That being said! I love the idea of a bold escape to Argentina with a handful of people (and Blondi!) to live out the rest of his life there. There's an excellent book on the subject, Grey Wolf, that makes a very compelling case. There just isn't any real evidence one way or another.

One River.

I'm a botany person with a lot of love for anthropology. If you're into Amazonia you should enjoy it. I think anyone would like this book. I liked it so much I bought 2 copies. Hell, it's safe to say it changed my life!

Lost City of Z might be more your thing. That is to say with your interest in (possible) ancient Amazonian civilizations. That's a pretty fun little book.

Being a brazilian also carries the burden of knowing a lot of books about each period and only just a few who talks about the whole scenario. I think one of the best still is "History of Brazil" (História do Brasil), by Boris Fausto. As far as I've looked, they published the concise version, which might be good to get started (since the regular version is thick like a brick! But it's great nonetheless). Some others that might be interesting are: "Formation of Contemporary Brazil (Formação do Brasil contemporâneo), by Caio Prado Jr. He was one of the first biggest marxists of the country; "Roots of Brazil" (Raízes do Brasil), by Sergio Buarque de Holanda. He was one of the first biggest culturalists of country. If you wish for some books about any specific period of our timeline, just let me know.

No problem, it is a fascinating topic. I don't know what to suggest, there's way way too many books.
Really top of my head, any anthropologist here will probably crucify me for forgetting something, I would suggest the following :

• Mead - Sex and Temperement
  
  
• Levi-Strauss - Savage Mind
  
  
• Descola - Spears of Twilight
  
  
• Mauss- The Gift
  
  
• Malinowski - Argonauts of the Pacific
  
  
• Clastres - Society against the State
  
  
• Levi-Strauss - Tristes Tropiques
  
  Some are more or less technical and harder to read without a background, I remember Malinoswki, Descola and Mead to be fairly easy to read. Tristes Tropiques is also very easy, it's like a novel. Mauss, Clastres and Savage Mind can be a bit more "advanced" but they are very readable.
  
  EDIT : Fun fact about something similar to cargo cult. Some tribes, don't remember if it's in Africa or Oceania, value foreign objects as possessing supernatural powers. As such, they cover their shields (which are absolutely amazing) with stickers, such as beer brands. The anthropoligist that told me this said that he tried to tell them that they are ruining the beautiful shield and they just thought he was an idiot, the shield looked much nicer with the stickers.

Fantastic true story! At one point they were even planning a movie starring Brad Pitt about this as recently as 2010:
http://www.wordandfilm.com/2010/11/brad-pitt-leaves-the-lost-city-of-z-in-limbo/

Great book on Fawcett's story:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Lost-City-Deadly-Obsession/dp/1400078458/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371843165&sr=8-1&keywords=lost+city+of+z

I enjoyed reading about this after hearing about the 'Lost Mines of Moribeca' from Graham Hancock's "Fingerprints of the Gods". Apparently, long story short, some Portuguese explorers back in the 1700's got lost in the Brazilian jungle and after 10 years only one guy made it out and told his story to a friar who wrote it down.

The story included them finding the ruins of a city with small pyramids and a grand avenue, temples and the whole bit complete with engravings that looked like ancient Greek.

Here's the original manuscript:
http://www.fawcettadventure.com/english_translation_manuscript_512.html

Wow. You have to read the The Lost City of Z. It's a true story about the search for El Dorado by legitimate explorers in the early 20th century. Good story telling, fascinating times, and, again, 100% true.

I have a couple of books about big game hunters on my list, but I have not read either of these yet:

• Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett, memoirs of a big game hunter in India in the early 20th century.
  
  
• The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant, about hunting a killer tiger in remote Russia.
  
  As for explorers, the best non-fiction I've read about explorers are The Lost City of Z by David Grann, about Percy Fawcett's attempts to find Eldorado in the jungles of South America, and Endurance by Alfred Lansing, about Shackleton's survival after his doomed polar expedition.
  
  It occurs to me that none of these are set in Africa. Hope that's not a deal-breaker.
  
  I'll also recommend my favorite memoir of all time, Papa Hemingway by A.E. Hotchner. It's about his time spent traveling with Ernest Hemingway, who was something of a hunter and adventurer, and recounts a lot of very exciting trips to exotic locales in which manly deeds were done.

You are p dumb and also you rely on Wikipedia for knowledge. The Roman (not Greek) emperor renamed the city after himself but to the Greek population until and after the fall of the city in 1453, thirteen centuries later, it remained Byzantium. and that was the name of their empire as a result.

I suggest that you first read John Julius Norwich's superb three-part history of the Byzantines:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Byzantium-Early-Centuries-v/dp/0140114475
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Byzantium-v-Apogee-Apogee/dp/0140114483/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Byzantium-Decline-John-Julius-Norwich/dp/0140114491/

Then a useful primary source to start with would be Anna Komnene's Alexiad, written about her father the Emperor and infused with first-hand knowledge of the city of Byzantium and its empire: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alexiad-Penguin-Classics-Anna-Komnene/dp/0140455272

Then perhaps something like Procopius' Secret History. Then come back and try and tell me that you don't cringe at that time you thought the Greeks called their city "Constantinople".

Venezuela likely has the most mobilized and organized population in the world aside from perhaps Rojava. Each group within this kaleidoscope of social movements maintains varying degrees of autonomy from the state.

We should seek out and support those leftist organizations which advocate keeping the revolution independent from the government. We can be critical of the Chavez/Maduro-run state without throwing away all the legitimate progress made by millions of people there. And of course we must totally oppose US imperialism.

A great book on this subject (though a bit dated now) is We Created Chavez. Another good one is Venezuela Speaks! Voices from the Grassroots.

I originally encountered it in the book The City of Z, which is about a modern writer retracing the steps of the famed Fawcett and attempting resolve what exactly happened to him on his last expedition. In the end he starts discussing how Fawcett was doomed to never find the legendary city he searched for, because he was searching for the hallmarks of a European society. It's an interesting read, and well worth it if you like adventure style things(this writing literally retraveled Fawcett's expedition paths and attempted to discover from the natives what may have happened. One tribe even produced a body, but it was determined to just be a native's bones.). Many of the sites both Fawcett and the author visited are now thought to be places where major amazon cities once stood.

After that I started seeing it in a lot more places. I think I was blind to it before.

This wiki page is about terra preta; an artificial dirt created to farm in the amazon. It's not directly related to canals, but still interesting.

Agroforestry may have been used in conjunction with terra preta, and canal systems.

The City of Z(Legend not book)

Kuhikugu Archaeological site that suggests the natives had greater geoscaping capabilities then we initially assumed.

There are also dozens of news articles that comment on it, but the details tend to either fall behind a pay wall or EDU access.

For history suggestions, don't forget /r/history

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Looking quickly at their excellent reading/watching list, https://www.reddit.com/r/history/wiki/recommendedlist

I see this:

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Latin American/Caribbean History

General

• *Born In Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America: Fourth Edition By John Charles Chasteeen. This edition was published in 2016 and features an improved set of maps and illustrations.
  
• *The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History By John C. Moye
  
• *Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent: 2009 edition By Eduardo Galeano.
  
• Latin America: Regions and People By Robert B. Kent.
  
• The Cambridge History of Latin America By Leslie Bethell.
  
• Afro-Latin America: 1800-2000 By George Reid Andrews.
  
• Ancient Maya: The Rise and Fall of a Rainforest Civilization By Arthur Demarest is one of the best introductions to Mayan history.
  
• Ancient Mexico and Central America: Archaeology and Culture History By Susan Toby Evans.
  
• In From The Cold: Latin America's New Encounter With the Cold War by Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spencer.
  
• Revolution and Revolutionaries: Guerrilla Movements in Latin America By Daniel Castro.
  
• The History of Latin America: A Collision of Cultures By Michael Eakin explores 500 years of Latin American history and looks at the economic, political, social and cultural evolution of its nations and their peoples.
  
• The Oxford History of Latin American Economics By Jose Antonio Ocampo and Jaime Ros. This is a good introduction to understanding the development of economics and policy in Latin America.
  
• Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence by Robert Harvey.
  
• Politics of Latin America: The Power Game: 4th Edition by Harry E. Vandon and Gary Prevost looks at the political history of Latin America and delves into the sociopolitical issues that have influenced Latin America from the ground up as well emerging issues and new problems facing Latin America in the age of globalization. Vandon and Prevost
  
  

  South America
  

  
  

• A Concise History of Brazil By Boris and Sergio Fausto.
  
• Short History of Brazil, A : From Pre-Colonial Peoples to Modern Economic Miracle By Gordon Kerr.
  
• A New Economic History of Argentina by Gerardo Della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor.
  
• The Argentina Reader by Gabriella Nouzeilles and Graciela Montaldo.
  
• A History of Chile: Enduring Editions by Luis Galdames.
  
• The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Peter Lambert and Andrew Nickson.
  
• The Ecuador Reader by Carlos de la Torre and Steve Striffler.
  
  

  Central America
  

  
  

• Power in the Isthmus: A Political History of Modern Central America By James Dunkerley.
  
• Simon Bolivar: A Life By John Lynch explores the life of the extraordinary man who liberated six countries from the Spanish Empire made a lasting impression on the politics and society of Central America still tangible today.
  
• The History of Panama by Robert C. Harding covers a century of history, economy and culture in Panama.
  
• The Costa Rica Reader by Steven Palmer. Covers the history of Costa Rica.
  
• Columbia Before Independence: Economy, Society and Politics under Bourbon Rule by Anthony McFarlane.
  
• Democracy and Socialism in Sandinista Nicaragua By Harry E. Vandon and Gary Prevost.
  
  

Best reading on the topic:

http://www.amazon.com/1808-Emperor-British-Tricked-Napoleon/dp/0762787961

This book is a best seller in Brazil.

Ethics in Anthropology. Gets very heavy into some of the important considerations for anyone thinking about a life in anthropology. Class was structured like a grad seminar, with each week the readings assigned to two people who lead the class discussion. Then for the big reads we had a formal debate with the class. There were four teams, broken up in two private debate sessions. You were assigned a side on the issue the day of the debate. All of this keeps you up on reading, and really really gets you invested in the topics. Also, some of the best case studies from the field. Favorites were:

The Fierce Controversy
http://www.amazon.com/Yanomami-Fierce-Controversy-California-Anthropology/dp/0520244044

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
http://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Catches-You-Fall-Down/dp/0374533407/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343382480&sr=1-1&keywords=spirit+catches+you+and+you+fall+down

The Yale/Maccu Piccu Debate
http://lastdaysoftheincas.com/wordpress/peru-yale-machu-picchu-controversy-part-1

If you're interested in amazon exploration check out The Lost City of Z, a really interesting novel about searching for ancient civilizations

https://www.amazon.com/Grey-Wolf-Escape-Adolf-Hitler/dp/1402796196

>In a riveting scenario that has never been fully investigated until now, international journalist Gerrard Williams and military historian Simon Dunstan make a powerful case for the Führer's escape to a remote enclave in Argentina-along with other key Nazis—where he is believed to have lived comfortably until 1962. Following years of meticulous research, the authors reconstruct the dramatic plot-including astonishing evidence and compelling testimony, some only recently declassified. Impossible to put down, Grey Wolf unravels an extraordinary story that flies in the face of history.

1415: Henry's Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer is excellent. John Julius Norwich's series about Byzantium (Byzantium: The Early Centuries, The Apogee and Decline and Fall) are also excellent.

Edit: didn't add any links (3rd attempt).

It's non-fiction, but Deep Down Dark is riveting; better than most adventure novels.

I enjoyed John Norwich's three volume series: Byzantium: The Early Centuries, The Apogee, and Decline and Fall. If that is a bit too verbose for your liking, he has also published a Short History of Byzantium which summarises his trilogy.

Non-fiction for sure. I do really like history but sometimes its just too dense. I like to switch it up with non-fiction (or some sci-fi) that are kinda self-contained and only relate tangentially to larger events or just a lighter biography. Thinking Shadow Divers, The lost city of Z, Lost in Shangri-La, At Ease - Eisenhower or An American Doctor's Odyssey

Everyone should read the book about this when they can. It's an extremely enjoyable and sometimes gritty true account of a group of men who went into the jungle in search of a lost city and simply vanished from the face of the earth.

They based their hunt on a rare Portuguese document written by a friar in Brazil after one surviving man from an expedition emerged from the jungle in 1753 after 10 years and gave his account as to what they saw. It's a real document known as Manuscript 512 and it's in the Brazilian state archives.

There is a lot of evidence suggesting Hitler himself escaped to Argentina, and lived until the 1960s. This book covers it well. Really cool read.

Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler https://www.amazon.com/dp/1402796196/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_OV63Bb716MD76

Yes, the book is called "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon" by David Grann. Below is a link to it on Amazon. This is one of the best books I've ever read.

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-City-Deadly-Obsession-Amazon/dp/1400078458

Still not an academic-academic source, but I'm currently reading Philippe Descola's The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle (1998). what might be of interest to you is his account of how he finally managed to gain access to a group of Jivaro Indians of Amazonian Ecuador. Plus it's a marvellous read in its own right, anyway!

Grey Wolf was a great read on the subject.

His more academic work Passage of Darkness: Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie is better for a number of reasons, but SatR is a much better read. If you're looking for another good in-depth discussion of research ethics I highly suggest http://www.amazon.com/Yanomami-Fierce-Controversy-California-Anthropology/dp/0520244044 about Napoleon Chagnon's extremely problematic work with the Yanomamo.

Hola. Soy un Dominicano criado en los Estados Unidos, y tambien estaba interesado en la situacion en Venezuela hace unos meses. Era una des las cosas que me compelo a estudiar el socialismo.

It will take time to understand. If you read each day little by little, you will understand. I will not simplify this for you. To have knowledge of the situation takes an understanding of Venezuelan history, the capitalist global economy, and the political atmosphere of Venezuela. But I will give you the tools to learn about Venezuela.

First and foremost, read this article. It should be enlightening.

http://roarmag.org/2013/03/chavez-death-venezuela-bolivarian-revolution/

Here is a documentary about Chavez, the political atmosphere of Venezuela, and the coup attempt of 2002:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id--ZFtjR5c

Here are books about Venezuela:

Changing Venezuela by Taking Power
Venezuela Speaks: Voices from the Grassroots

This is a website for news on Venezuela:

http://venezuelanalysis.com/

Bolivia is also a country allied with Venezuela that you should be interested in. Nicaragua, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile are also fairly leftist, and should attract your attention in the future. Here is a book on Bolivia:

The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia

Here is a documentary about an Argentinian workers movement:

The Take

Here is a legendary book that details the history of the Latin American continent has had with imperialism and capitalism:

The Open Veins of Latin America

Here is a book about the Latin American left of the 21st century:

Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America

Here are websites for the Latin American left in general:

http://www.nacla.org/
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/

Here are organizations of the Latin America countries that you should know about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALBA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unasur

Finally, here is just a list of documentaries (mostly about issues in the US, but still useful):

http://www.filmsforaction.org/walloffilms/

Also...is your name from the Japanese video game Ikaruga?

For Dad, the book about those Chilean miners might combine his interest in books and caves, although it's obviously not caving per se.

Good book. https://www.amazon.com/Grey-Wolf-Escape-Adolf-Hitler/dp/1402796196

The Lost City of Z is an amazing book! One of my favourites.

http://www.amazon.ca/The-Lost-City-Deadly-Obsession/dp/1400078458

A couple of books that I enjoyed:

Felix Gilman - The Half-Made World
http://www.amazon.com/Half-Made-World-Felix-Gilman/dp/0765325535/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422115061&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Half-Made+World&pebp=1422115068901&peasin=765325535

The lost city of Z
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-City-Deadly-Obsession-Amazon/dp/1400078458/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422115097&sr=1-1&keywords=lost+city+of+z

Jeff Long - The Descent
http://www.amazon.com/Descent-Jeff-Long/dp/051513175X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422115133&sr=1-3&keywords=the+decent

Edit: I would also check out Mark Hodder's Burton & Swinburne series. Book 3 Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon is what I was thinking of.

This actually happened to Brazil when Napoleon was threatening Portugal. Haven't read it yet, but here is the book you could read on what happened. If you would like the spoiler read the summary of Pedro I of Brazil here

You might be interested in Percy Fawcett, the early 20th century explorer.

He was a very famous explorer, mostly for helping map parts of South America and the Amazon. I recently read the book The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon and it goes over a lot of the stories and details of his life.

Some of the stuff sounds like it is straight out of a movie or book. Cutting your way through one of the last unknown, uncharted areas of the world, making contact with local tribes (many who had never seen white people and could be very hostile), reports of never-before-seen animals/bugs. It's said that his Amazon explorations were even the inspiration for Authur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.

I doubt he ever found himself avoiding booby-traps in an ancient tomb but he is the closest to an Indiana Jones-type guy I've ever read about.

Read Grey Wolf, which shows how Hitlers escape was possible.

I've heard good things about The Lost City of Z.

Grey Wolf.



http://www.amazon.com/Grey-Wolf-Escape-Adolf-Hitler/dp/1402796196

I have an English degree, but I didn't read nonfiction until I graduated a few years ago. Here are the best I've read: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann, and Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl.

Not fantasy or sci-fi, but great tale of exploration!

there's actually a book about it, too:
http://www.amazon.com/Grey-Wolf-Escape-Adolf-Hitler/dp/1402796196

Arts & Photography: https://www.amazon.com/Imaginary-Cities-Darran-Anderson/dp/0992765595/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500713407&sr=1-2&keywords=imaginary+cities; https://www.amazon.com/Burglars-Guide-City-Geoff-Manaugh/dp/0374117268/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500713469&sr=1-7&keywords=imaginary+cities (both from the subcategory Architecture)

History: https://www.amazon.com/Devil-White-City-Madness-Changed/dp/0375725601/ref=sr_1_17?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500713574&sr=1-17; https://www.amazon.com/Lost-City-Deadly-Obsession-Amazon/dp/1400078458/ref=sr_1_69?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500713679&sr=1-69

You find the Lost City of Z yet?

Here, u/JewbaccaIsReal. 3 recomendations, all well-reviewed and updated (oldest is from 2016)

https://www.amazon.com/Brazil-Biography-Lilia-M-Schwarcz/dp/0374280495
(The translated edition is newly launched, so there are no reviews yet, but the brazilian one has 4,5 stars)

https://www.amazon.com/Brazil-Troubled-Rise-Global-Power/dp/0300216971/

https://www.amazon.com/Concise-History-Brazil-Cambridge-Histories/dp/1107635241

I think it is Gerrard Williams, co-author of Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler^ebook.

Here is another interview with Williams.

Sidenote: I just want to say, I thought it was odd that the interviewer in the OP's video brought up holocaust denial when Williams's story had nothing to do with refuting the holocaust.

directedlight: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

I think it is Gerrard Williams, co-author of Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler^ebook.

Here is another interview with Williams.

Sidenote: I just want to say, I thought it was odd that the interviewer in the OP's video brought up holocaust denial when Williams's story had nothing to do with refuting the holocaust.

Hello and Welcome back. So sorry that you're going throw bad times. let me know if i can do anything.

I have this book for 7.25 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400078458/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=SOZXP7H39ER4&coliid=I1E2WKP7ZBEQ98

Although it's probably not quite what the original poster meant by "highly organized," there is a good example in Brazil. There were once legends of what explorer Percy Fawcett called the "Lost City of Z," an ancient city or civilization once referenced by early explorers of the region. Fawcett died searching for this ancient civilization, but died in his quest. However, recent work by archaeologist Michael Heckenberger suggests that there was, in fact, an ancient society that inhabited the area of Kuhikugu, which may be what inspired the myths of the Lost City.

Heckenberger used remote sensing to analyze the area, which allowed him to see areas where the land was inconsistent, or where settlements once were and how they once connected. He also analyzed the ways in which the land changed; wherever there were once moats or walls, a mark can be seen on the land in the form of mounds, holes, or ditches. Because the structures would have been made of wood, they would have deteriorated over time, unlike the stone ruins of Egypt, Greece, or Maya:

>“There isn’t a lot of stone in the jungle, and most of the settlement was built with organic materials—wood and palms and earth mounds—which decompose,” [Heckenberger] said. “But once you begin to map out the area and excavate it you are blown away by what you see.”

Sherds can also be found in these areas, further suggesting a previous organized society.

If you want to read up on it, there was a New Yorker article (where the above quote is taken from) which led to a fasinating book by the same author. Both discuss both Heckenberger's findings as well as the ill-fated expedition of Colonel Percy Fawcett. I believe a movie is in the works, as well.

Additionally, you can read some of Heckenberger's articles relating to his work in Brazil.

The Lost City of Z
http://www.amazon.com/The-Lost-City-Deadly-Obsession/dp/1400078458
Man goes hunting for a lost City in the Amazon lots of history and his
story in the current time.

https://www.amazon.com/Grey-Wolf-Escape-Adolf-Hitler/dp/1402796196 I got the title wrong

Read this. People freaking disappear in there after being captured by tribes and who knows what else.

In a rather different vein from a lot of the suggestions I'm seeing here, I want to plug Michael Herr's Dispatches as an incredible piece of Vietnam literature. There's also If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien.

If you're willing to consider graphic novels, check out Maus, Persepolis, and Laika.

If you're interested at all in vampires and folklore, I recommend Food for the Dead. Really interesting read.

A history-teacher friend of mine recently gave me The Lost City of Z by David Grann. I haven't gotten around to reading it yet, but it came highly recommended.

By the by, last year I required my students (high school seniors) to select and read a non-fiction book and gave them the following list of suggestions. Columbine was one of the really popular ones, and I had a bunch of kids (and a few teachers) recommending it to me, but, again, I haven't gotten to it yet.

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steve D. Levitt
  
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
  
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
  
• The Omnivore’s Dilemna: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
  
• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
  
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
  
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
  
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
  
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
  
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
  
• In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
  
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
  
• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
  
• Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
  
• A Brief History of Time: The Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition by Stephen Hawking
  
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
  
• The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman
  
• Columbine by Dave Cullen
  
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
  
• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
  
• The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
  
• The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston
  
• Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
  
• SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt
  
• Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
  
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Emil Frankl
  
• At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
  
• Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
  
• Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
  
• The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got that Way by Bill Bryson
  
• Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry
  
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  
• The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
  
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
  
• Food For the Dead: On the Trail of New England’s Vampires by Michael E. Bell
  
• Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha
  
• Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts

You can try sorting by "top" on this sub though I just did that and didn't exactly get a ton of longer ones.

Off the top of my head, I know there's also a long write-up on Casey Anthony on the sub.

Then I've found I've stumbled upon a few longer write-ups online that I have really been engaged in.

Sneha Philips


Maura Murray

The murders of Jo Rogers and her daughters Michelle and Christe
(this one has a resolution but I was drawn in by the writing)

Also try going to longreads.com and I think you can sort by "crime" there.

Then.. if you really get into it, a few book recommendations!


Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil


The Monster of Florence


People Who Eat Darkness

The Lost City of Z