Here's a list of 50 books...

every one of them is a page-turner.

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1. A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours on the Titanic by Walter Lord

2. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

3. On Wings of Eagles: The Inspiring True Story of One Man’s Patriotic Spirit — and His Heroic Mission to Save His Countrymen by Ken Follett

4. Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak by Maurice Herzog

5. A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It by Stephen Kinzer

6. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger

7. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar

8. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

9. Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden

10. Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson

11. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein

12. Crusade in Europe: A Personal Account of World War II by Dwight D. Eisenhower

13. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

14. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela

15. Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-two Days, and Insurmountable Odds — The Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes by Piers Paul Read

16. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight

17. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

18. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden

19. Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis

20. Ho Chi Minh: A Life by William Duiker

21. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

22. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

23. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

24. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

25. Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl

26. The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

27. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

28. The Climb Up to Hell by Jack Olsen

29. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

30. Fool’s Gold: The Inside Story of J.P. Morgan and How Wall St. Greed Corrupted Its Bold Dream and Created a Financial Catastrophe by Gillian Tett

31. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson

32. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara

33. Conquistadors of the Useless: From the Alps to Annapurna by Lionel Terray

34. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

35. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles

36. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery by Bernard Law Montgomery

37. 1776 by David McCullough

38. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

39. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

40. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

41. A Bridge too Far: The Classic History of the Greatest Battle of World War II by Cornelius Ryan

42. Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart

43. Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon by Robert Kurson

44. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

45. The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eger

46. Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System by Peter Maas

47. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

48. Reminiscences by Douglas MacArthur

49. Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis by Mark Bowden

50. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing