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Best Erik Larson Books Worth Your Attention

Below I’ll give you my selections for the best Erik Larson books by a few categories. I will cover these and other great books more in depth later.

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin (2012)

 Best Erik Larson Books Worth Your AttentionThe time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha.
Author(s): Erik Larson

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (2004)

 Best Erik Larson Books Worth Your AttentionErik Larson—author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts—intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World’s Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.
Author(s): Erik Larson

Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (2000)

 Best Erik Larson Books Worth Your AttentionSeptember 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning.
Author(s): Erik Larson

Thunderstruck (2007)

 Best Erik Larson Books Worth Your AttentionIn Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to