This year’s Nonfiction November has left me feeling inspired by the book community, and it’s left my bookshelf overflowing! I can’t wait to share my new towering TBR with you. Luckily Lisa at Hopewell’s Public Library of Life has this week’s prompt, New To My TBR:
It’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books! Which ones have made it onto your TBR? Be sure to link back to the original blogger who posted about that book!
Most Recommended
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann – Lory at Entering the Enchanted Castle and Curly Geek at The Book Stop and Carol at Reading Ladies Book Club and whatmeread
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder – Lisa at Hopewell’s Public Library of Life and Kate at Books are My Favourite and Best and Brona at This Reading Life
The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier by April White – Heather at Based on a True Story and Silver Button Books
Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego – Liz Dexter at Adventures in reading, running, and working from home and Brona at This Reading Life
Race and Place
American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley Lowery – Heather at Based on a True Story
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah – Deb Nance at Readerbuzz
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule – Heather at Based on a True Story
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin – Mary at bibliographic manifestations
We Come with This Place by Debra Dank – Whispering Gums
Darwin’s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins by Adrian Desmond and James Moore – Mary R. at Bibiographic Manifestations
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan – Lisa at Hopewell’s Public Library of Life
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond – Deb Nance at Readerbuzz
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle – JoAnn at Gulfside Musing
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery- Liz Dexter at Adventures in reading, running, and working from home
Feminism and Women’s History
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney – Stephanie at Bookfever
Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths by Helen Morales – Stephanie at Bookfever
Fixed It: Violence and the Representation of Women in the Media by Jane Gilmore – ShellyRae at Book’d Out
Hey Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson – Lisa at Hopewell’s Public Library of Life
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling – Mallika at Literary Potpourri
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez – Frances at Volatile Rune
The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts by by Loren Grush – Lisa at Hopewell’s Public Library of Life
Gender
XOXY, A Memoir: Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist by Kimberly Zieselman – Heather at Based on a True Story
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam – Heather at Based on a True Story
None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary by Travis Alabanza – Liz Dexter at Adventures in reading, running, and working from home
Guns
How to Talk About Guns with Anyone by Katherine Schweit – Lisa at Lisa Notes
The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy by Chris Murphy – Lisa at Lisa Notes
Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World by Shannon Watts – Lisa at Lisa Notes
Religion
Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation by Jon Ward – Heather at Based on a True Story
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan – whatmeread
Fascism
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder – Maphead’s Book Blog
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright – Lisa at Hopewell’s Public Library of Life
Other Topics
Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life by Scott Branson – Mallika at Literary Potpourri
Cultish – Silver Button Books
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science by Seb Falk – Louloureads
It’ll take me forever to get through all of these, but some of them really stood out. I can’t wait to look back next November and reminisce on what these books have taught me! Thank you so much for participating in our event where nonfiction is the star—just in time for reading in a cozy blanket by the fire, with our favorite candles and warm drinks, while we tackle these TBRs!
I’m pleased that a couple of reads this past year attracted your attention. I also read We Come With This Place but haven’t finished my review for it, but can highly recommend it for you Race & Place topic along with Sue.
So glad you have added Africa is Not a Country to your list! I can’t, however, take credit for pointing you towards Darwin’s Sacred Cause as I haven’t read that. It must have been another blog where you saw that.
I hope you find Fixed It as impactful as I did!
You have compiled a very thorough list of recommended reads.
I’m so glad you added Antigone Rising and When Women Ruled the World to your TBR 😀
The cover really pulled me in!
I recently read Timothy Egan’s A Fever in the Heartland. An excellent, terrifying read.
Imagine –I grew up there and it was still scary.
I’ve been seeing that everywhere. I’m sure it is!
Thanks for the shout-out for my recommendation of Killers of the Flower Moon!
Great post! Thanks for all the shout-outs!
What an excellent list! Glad you got so much out of the month!
You aren’t kidding about the towering TBR pile. I liked The Killers of the Flower Moon so much. The money, all three+ hours of it was overwhelming. I thought the pacing of the book was better.
My Nonfiction wrap up at HeadFullofBooks
I’d like to read Killers of the Flower Moon and Fixed It too. I appreciate seeing your list here because there are so many books I missed through the month. Thanks for sharing such a thorough list. I can just come back here for a recap of Nonfiction November. 🙂
Haha happy to help! I think you can tell I like to make sure I haven’t missed a single thing!
Africa is Not a Country has made it to my list too, and the Mrs Orwell book has been on my radar though I’m still debating it based on a couple of reviews. Hope you enjoy Practical Anarchism–I didn’t agree with everything that was said but there were quite a few interesting ideas.