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by Jon Krakauer · about this book

Loved Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer? If its nonfiction, snow and ice and survival story hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Complete Maus, Sunrise on the Reaping and Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster: Nonfiction · Snow and Ice · Survival Story · Tense and Suspenseful · First Person Narrator

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