Hey all! Need a couple book recs for an upcoming beach trip.

Looking for a great non-fiction, relating to travel or world history (not just one moment in time). Could also be about the marketing world or memoirs of a business leader kinda thing.

Fiction wise I also like fantasy, paranormal, and romance. Some fave book series are the Black Gryphon from Mercedes Lackey, Game of Thrones, and From Jamaica Lane series. Similar books?

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Travel - vagabonding
World history - bill Bryson a short history of nearly everything
Memoirs of a leader - consider ashlee Vance Elon musk or Walter Isaacson on da Vinci/ Steve Jobs
Fantasy - Brandon Sanderson Mistborn, stormlight archive
Robert Jordan’s wheel of time which was finished posthumously by Brandon Sanderson (14 books but great overall)

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For non-fiction, I recommend Blitzed (about drug addiction in the Nazi regime and its direct impacts on WWII strategy and battles), The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and Behind the Beautiful Forevers. All very different but eye-opening.

I’d recommend the century trilogy by Ken Follet, although fictional characters, it’s all centered around true historical events. First book takes place during the time of WW1, second is WW2, third is during the Cold War.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/AO8/the-century-trilogy

Or, Red Notice by Bill Browder, about the first/largest foreign investor in Russia. Very good memoir!

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. Kind of dystopian future but also very heartwarming. Excellent writing.

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