November 9, 2020
Fiction/Nonfiction Book Pairings #NonficNov 2020
I’m eager to participate in Nonfiction November this year hosted by Doing Dewey, Julz Reads, What’s Nonfiction, and Shelf-Aware.
During the month of November, you will notice one nonfiction focused post each week:
Weekly Topics:
Fiction/Nonfiction Book Pairings (today’s post)
Be the Expert
New to My Nonfiction TBR
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Fiction and Nonfiction Book Pairings
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 Julz Reads, I have thirteen fiction/nonfiction book pairings to share with you! Can you add to this list?
Please join me for Nonfiction November!
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D I S A S T E R!
A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
paired with
The Only Place in the Sky by Garrett Graff
E S C A P E !
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
paired with
The Girl With Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee
Refugees
Inside Out and Back Again by Thannhha Lai and Refugee by Alan Gratz
paired with
Family in Six Tones by Lan Cao
A M E R I C A N
H I S T O R Y
Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
paired with
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
(then watch Hamilton the Musical!)
C E L E B R I T Y
The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin
paired with
Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A M E R I C A N
H I S T O R Y
America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
and Jefferson’s Sons by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (MG)
paired with
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
W O R L D W A R 1 1
Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini
paired with
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
T R U E C R I M E
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
paired with
Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society by Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate and The Baby Thief by Barbara Bisantz Raymond
C O M P L I C A T E D F A M I L Y
Far From the Tree by Robin Benway
paired with
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
P H O T O G R A P H Y
Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange by Elise Hooper
paired with
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon
B I O G R A P H I C A L
Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan
paired with
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
A B O L I T I O N O F S L A V E R Y
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
paired with
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery by Eric Metaxas
A F G H A N I S T A N
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
paired with
The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg
QOTD
I know you can help me add to this list!
I’d love to hear your suggestions for a fiction/nonfiction pair.
If you have a nonficnov post, please leave your link in comments.
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Wow fantastic post Carol, so many pairings!
Thanks Nicki! I love when books talk to each other!
Fantastic post, Carol💜 I’ve a number of the fiction titles on my shelf and some of the non fiction.
Thanks Jonetta! 🙌
Thanks for the Hamilton pairing and the C.S. Lewis pairing as well. Read the boob blurbs on Goodreads, really intrigued.
Happy NFN! My own post went here: https://lexlingua.co/nonficnov-week2-book-pairings/
Thanks for commenting and leaving your link! Hopping over to take a look now!
Ooh the Jefferson pairing looks interesting!!
I’ve been reading a lot in Regency/Victorian England – not that it’s all that unusual – but in the nonfiction space, have really enjoyed Judith Flanders’ The Victorian City (which, as she explains, covers a lot of the Regency period as she follows Dickens’ early career), The Victorian Home, and The Last Days of Night. I’ve been reading REALLY light fiction lately, but even so, these complimented the Enola Holmes series and Stephanie Barrons’ Jane Austen mysteries extremely well.
Thanks for commenting and for your recs! I’ll check them out!
You’ve proved an amazing group of pairings! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks and you’re welcome! Thanks for commenting!
Oh this is cool. We usually only post book reviews for publishers or new books but that’s fun, great pairs!
Thanks!
What a fabulous list and varied range of topics! I absolutely loved The Underground Girls of Kabul. Daring to Drive is another amazing look at a woman’s life in the Middle East (but it’s her memoir from Saudi Arabia, so some topics are really different but some similar themes). Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS is also fantastic.
(PS, I think I must’ve accidentally unfollowed you, I do that all the time on WordPress. Sorry!!!)
Thanks for commenting and for your recs!
I’ve accidentally unfollowed too because the visit option is so close to the unfollow!
This is a cool idea! While I love non-fiction I’ve gotten burned on the last couple I read. The last two historical fiction I absolutely adored were Nemesis & the Swan and Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook.
I read so much histfic that I trick myself sometimes into thinking I’ve read a lot of nonfiction!
😅 sometimes it seems like that line can be exceedingly thin
Especially for those dense, well researched ones!
Definitely!
I love all the variety in your pairings! There are so many Hamilton (Eliza and Alexander) books out there, fiction and nonfiction, lots to choose from!
Thank you Angela! Eliza is an amazing person!
I love these ideas! It’s so hard for me to find nonfiction I like.
I’m partial to narrative nonfiction and memoir!
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Fabulous pairings Carol, and I’ve added The Baby Thief to my WTR list!
Thank you! Happy reading!
This is an amazing list!!
Thanks for visiting and commenting!
OUTSTANDING!!!
Thanks! 🙌😍
Marvelous pairings. You did a thorough job.
Thanks! 🙌
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Wow, so many great books. I only paired one novel with two non-fiction books. Mmmh. Maybe more next year.
My topic was tulips.
Thanks Marianne! I’m hopping over now to read your post!
You’ll probably be disappointed since I don’t have as many books but maybe you are interested in the topic anyway.
I love tulips! 😍
I’m sure you’d love the books, then.
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