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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann
★★★★★· Published 2023· 327 pages· read 2023
A shipwreck, a mutiny, and rival survivors telling wildly different stories. Grann makes nonfiction read like a thriller.
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★ 5Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe
The definitive account of the Sacklers and the fortune they built on OxyContin. Infuriating and impossible to put down.
★ 5DisneyWar
James B. Stewart
The Michael Eisner era at Disney in all its backstabbing glory. A doorstop, and I'd have read another hundred pages.
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Erik Larson
The American ambassador's family in Berlin as the Nazis rose to power. Reads like a thriller, and it's all true.