NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #30 of #GMGReads. Every night through this weird time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
Tonight, in honor of #TigerKing, I wanted to share some favorite "books-that-read-like-great-documentaries," including the legit book you'll find about tigers, all for sale at @oldtownbooks in Alexandria, where I did a great event in October last year. Buy a book! See the world!
1) John Vaillant (@johnvaillant), who is just an incredibly talented writer and reporter, wrote the greatest book you'll ever read about tigers, THE TIGER, about the Siberian Tiger and the wilds of Russia: oldtownbooks.com/?q=h.tviewer&u…
2) Julian Rubinstein's (@julian_rubinste) BALLAD OF THE WHISKEY ROBBER is an amazing tale of a hockey player-turned-bank robber in Budapest: oldtownbooks.com/?q=h.tviewer&u…
3) Candice Millard's RIVER OF DOUBT is the tale of Teddy Roosevelt's greatest adventure-gone-wrong: oldtownbooks.com/?q=h.tviewer&u…
4) Michael Finkel's (@MikeFinkel) THE STRANGER IN THE WOODS is, as its subtitle promise, the extraordinary story of the last true hermit in Maine: oldtownbooks.com/?q=h.tviewer&u…
5) Lisa Taddeo's (@lisadtaddeo) THREE WOMEN is an astonishing feat of a decade of reporting, mapping the desires and lives of three women: oldtownbooks.com/?q=h.tviewer&u…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. Any one of these books will get you talking and thinking and wondering as much as #TigerKing , I promise. What are your favorite books-that-read-like-great-documentaries? Share! #avidreadersunite
