November 18, 2019
Favorite Nonfiction Books
#NonficNov
I’m eager to participate in Nonfiction November this year hosted by Doing Dewey, Julz Reads, What’s Nonfiction, Sarah’s Book Shelves, and Shelf-Aware. During November, you will notice one nonfiction focused post each week:
Weekly Topics:
Fiction/Nonfiction Book Pairings
Nonfiction and Racial Injustice
Nonfiction Favorites (today’s post)
Nonfiction TBR
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Favorite Nonfiction Books
Nonfiction November is an opportunity to reflect on the year, to celebrate and appreciate nonfiction, and to share recommendations.
Today for Nonfiction November hosted by Leann from Shelf-Aware, I am sharing my favorite recommendations for nonfiction books. What are your favorite titles?
Please join me for Nonfiction November!
10 Favorite Memoirs:
Is there something specific you look for when choosing a nonfiction read? A favorite genre? A favorite tone or theme or subject?
My favorite nonfiction tends to be memoirs…..not celebrity memoirs or misery memoirs or fluffy-I’m-going-to-write-some-words-and-fill-300-pages memoirs….but substantial and thought-provoking memoirs that have a theme beyond the author’s personal experience. Some examples include:
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (MG)
Unbroken: A World War 11 Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (Louis Zamperini)
(This is technically a biography, but because Louis Zamperini was interviewed first hand, I also shelved it as memoir.)
Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Tell Me More: Stories About the Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say by Kelly Corrigan
QOTD
I’d love to hear your favorite nonfiction books!
Fall TBR Update
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I loved The Glass Castle too. Tuesdays with Morrie is another one I have but haven’t read yet! Here’s my Week 4 Nonfiction November postif you have time!
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The Glass Castle is one of my all-time favorites, such an amazing book!
I’ve heard lots of good things about Unbroken and think I even have a copy of it somewhere, I really need to get to that one. And I remember coming across Tell Me More last year when it came out and for some reason never added it to my list, it sounds really lovely. Thanks for reminding me of it. Wonderful list of memoirs!!
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Thanks! I hope you enjoy Unbroken and Tell Me More! Thank you for commenting!
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I didn’t realise Unbroken was a novel. I’ve seen the film and found it really painful. Not sure I could cope with the book as well
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It is a difficult read…..especially in the middle section when he was detained by the Japanese……I had to skim some of that section …… in every other part, I was hanging on every word! I didn’t see the movie because I was afraid I couldn’t handle it.
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I’ve read almost all of those!! Such great choices 🙂
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Book twins! 🙌😍
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Love your choices, Carol! The Hiding Place is definitely on my list of faves!
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Thanks Jennifer! 👍😍
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Great list, Carol💜 I loved The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown. I recently finished Sally Field’s In Pieces and was blown away. Some others are Columbine & A Mother’s Reckoning.
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Boys in the Boat is languishing on my TBR! I liked In Pieces and it was more tragic than I anticipated! I thought about Columbine but at the time I was teaching and just felt it might be too triggering for me. Thanks for sharing Jonetta! 👍😍
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I have not read The Glass Castle although I have had a copy on my bookshelf for quite awhile now. I am hoping to read at least one non-fiction book a month in 2020 to try and increase the amount of non-fiction I read. I will keep some of these in mind, although I have read both of the Mitch Albom books.
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For a month when you’re stuck and need something you can read in a day there’s Brown Girl Dreaming (MG) 👍 ….also Backman’s essays are entertaining and fast reading!
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Thanks Carol. I love Backman’s writing and didn’t realize he had written essays, but I put them on my list.
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It’s called Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
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Oh, yes, I have heard of that one. Thanks.
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