Book recommendations? Non-fiction, non-business, non-self-help

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Twilight. That shit changed my life

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"The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat" by Oliver sacks.

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Harry Potter. All of them.

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Go Dog! Go! Interesting read, although the main character doesn't like most hats. Great party scene at the end.

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Boys in the Boat, anything by David Sedaris, Outliers

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Hmm meets two of the three categories as it's part fiction and part fact - been reading Alex Rutherford 's Moghul series.

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The Glass Castle. Chicks dig it

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Agree with db1 boys in the boat was a great read. Just finished it.

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Seven Summits by Dick Bass and Frank Wells; Four plays of Aristophanes; the Five Dialogues by Plato; The Snowball by Alice Schroeder

I rowed for eight years in HS and college and can not get into boys in the boat. I haven't gotten past the first fifty pages any of the three times I've started it. I've been all about Tacitus' annals recently.

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