Maybe you're familiar with our collection of fiction titles in the leisure lounge, but did you know we also have a good selection of nonfiction? We at Hirsh have assembled a collection of our best and most interesting Leisure Lounge nonfiction, in case you want to learn a new fact outside of schoolwork on your break!
Stop by and check out these titles:
The Underworld by Susan Casey (an exploration of the underwater world and the people who have explored and traversed it)
An Immense World by Ed Yong (Ed Yong explores the world of animal senses and delves deep into an experience humans cannot attain)
The Race Underground by Doug Most (the story of the race behind the construction of the New York and Boston subway systems)
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber (a new account of human history, examining the origins of inequality and struggle)
Dead Wake by Erik Larson (a narrative history of the sinking of the Lusitania)
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (an extensive history of the decades long exodus of Black citizens who left the American south and started new lives elsewhere in the country)
By the Fire We Carry by Rebecca Nagle (an exploration of the history of Indigenous Nations and tribal law)
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight (a detailed biography of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass)
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins (a journalist’s chronicle of one Afghan man’s journey, and a wider portrait about refugee migration)
Tracing Homelands by Linda Dittmar (a narrative history of the Palestinian Nakba and the years of conflict since)
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (an exploration of colonization and the environmental factors that have shaped history)
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow (a chronicle of the investigation that uncovered years of misconduct allegations against powerful men)
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days by Rebecca Donner (a history of the American women who led the resistance against Hitler)
So stop on by the leisure lounge to learn something new!