Jon Krakauer
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Genres:Lifestyle, Biography, Memoir +5 more
Lifestyle
Biography
Memoir
History
Fantasy
Books by Jon Krakauer
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
Non-fiction
Lifestyle
4.2(395,109)
On May 10, 1996, ambition and a sudden, violent storm turned Mount Everest into a deadly trap, leaving Jon Krakauer to tell the harrowing story of a disaster that took lives and shattered climbers' dreams.
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
Fiction
Fantasy
3.7(2,401)
A privileged young man, eager to escape society, heads into the Alaskan wilderness, only to find that his radical pursuit of freedom comes at a high cost.
Under the Banner of Heaven
by Jon Krakauer
Non-fiction
Biography
4.0(156,956)
Krakauer examines the 'divinely inspired' double murder by two fundamentalist Mormon brothers, showing the intersection of faith, polygamy, and violence in America's religious fringes.