For the occasion

Non-fiction that reads like a thriller

All true, unputdownable anyway. The gateway drug out of fiction.

For the reader who says they should read more non-fiction the way people say they should floss. These three remove the should.

Bad Blood

John Carreyrou

The Theranos fraud, reported by the man who broke it. Corporate horror at its finest.

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The Wager

David Grann

Shipwreck, mutiny, and two rival crews of survivors telling opposite stories. All of it true.

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Empire of Pain

Patrick Radden Keefe

Three generations of the Sackler family and the empire built on OxyContin. Furious and forensic.

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