I love non-fiction. I love learning about new things, ideas, places, people, you name it. I was happy to hear about a whole month dedicated to non-fiction. I'll still read a few fiction books in there but this month I'll be focusing on books about death and grief. This time of the year puts me in that mood. It's a way to focus on life and what I'm grateful for.
A big thanks to JulzReads, Sarah's Book Shelves, Doing Dewey, Emerald City Book Review, and Sophisticated Dorkiness for putting on this fantastic non-fiction November!
My Nonfiction Year at-a-glance:
- How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
- H Is For Hawk by Helen MacDonald
- Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman by Lindy West
- Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe by Greg M. Epstein
- Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- March: Book One by John Robert Lewis
- Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
- The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage County Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
- Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
- Anything We Love Can Be Saved by Alice Walker
- Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
- Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign by Jonathon Allen
Week One's questions:
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Easy. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay.
What one have you recommended the most?
Once again Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body and close second is Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign by Jonathon Allen.
What is the one topic or type of non-fiction you haven't read enough of yet?
History. I have so many of them I want to get to but they are very big and it would take a lot of time to truly get through them.
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I love mini-challenges. I love seeing what other people are reading. It'll be a way for me to reflect on what I'm reading this month and engage with other nonfiction lovers.
Wow! You've done a lot of nonfiction reading this year! I don't think I've read anything on your list, but several of those are on my TBR!
ReplyDeleteOh wait, I did read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a few years ago!
DeleteDid you see the movie HBO did on Henrietta Lacks? What did you think?
DeleteI didn't see the movie. I don't watch a lot of movies, but I'd probably watch this one if I had HBO.
DeleteSo impressed with your list of nonfiction this year! I see several books I loved and many more that I want to read. I discovered Roxane Gay this year though her essay collection, Bad Feminist and now look forward to reading Hunger, too.
ReplyDeleteBad Feminist is how I discovered Roxane Gay too. Her writing is so raw and beautiful. You'll love Hunger.
DeleteThat's an impressive list of nf books I haven't read!
ReplyDeleteI tend to read a lot of Aust/Asian-Pacific titles though, so that's my excuse 😊
That makes sense you'd more about where you live! I'll have to check out your list!
DeleteWhat a great month you will have! You'll learn a lot of new things. I always love that! I watched Hidden Figures in the plain to the Netherlands and I loved the movie. SO GOOD!
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Hidden Figures was a fantastic movie; it really brought out the real life people from the book. Made them seem real.
DeleteHow to Read Literature Like a Professor sounds really interesting!
ReplyDeleteIt is! Lots of great tips on literature!
DeleteYou've had a great reading year! Years ago I started reading How To Read Literature Like A Professor and then got sidetracked. Now I can't find it but I'm absolutely certain that I didn't get rid of it.
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