Nonfiction can tell a story as rich and satisifying as the best novel. During Nonfiction November, we all fall in love with a few of our titles. Here are some that I’ve recently added to my TBR and hope to read in December or in 2021.
Nature
| Nature’s Storyteller: The Life of Gene Stratton-Porter by Barbara Olenyik Morrow Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl by Jonathan C. Slaght Wintering: A Season With Geese by Stephen Rutt Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller The Comstock’s of Cornell edited by Karen Penders St. Clair |
History
In Triumph’s Wake: Royal Mothers, Tragic Daughters and the Price They Paid for Glory by Julia P. Gelardi.
The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons From World War to Cold War by David Nasaw
Empress Alexandra: The Special Relationship Between Russia’s Last Tsarina and Queen Victoria by Melanie Clegg
Red Famine: Stalin’s War On Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression by Lorena Hickok
Windsor Diaries, 1940-45 by Alathea Fitzalan Howard. Link is to Amazon UK,
Food
Women in the Kitchen by Anne Willan
Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training… by Bill Buford
In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life by
Travel and Home
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain
Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us by Joel Kotkin
The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking
Social Justice
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White American by Michael Eric Dyson
Soul Full of Coal Dust by Chris Hamby
The Address Book by Deirdre Mask
And This One
The Diaries of Alan Rickman!! Read more here
Any new nonfiction on your TBR? Leave me a comment or a link to your post.
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I didn’t even know the actor that plays Snape is dead until I saw the article about Rickman’s diaries! I’m only up to HP Book and Movie #5 so haven’t really looked to see what actors play what characters or where they are now etc. Kinda like I had no clue James Gandolfini was dead the entire time I was watching The Sopranos for the first time a couple years ago. But yah, Rickman’s diaries are a MUST HAVE. Too bad they’ve been edited down to one book. Can’t we have volumes of them? LOL
Great list of books you have here. I still need to do my NonFicNov wrap up post but now I’m in the midst of #thankfulllyreading so not sure when to fit that in. LOL
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Who knows what size each of the 4 volumes was though? I only made it thru the first 4 1/2 HP books and have still not seen the last movie.
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All great additions to your TBR!
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I saw the Bourdain book somewhere else today. I’ve never read any of his books even though I enjoyed the episodes that I saw of his shows. I need to fix that.
You’ve also reminded me that I want to read The Little Book of Hygge. My aunt recommended it a few years ago. Hygge is a concept that she’s fully adopted.
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The Hygge book was good–review is coming as soon as I finish the other book going in that post. It’s a very quick read, but worth it.
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So many books here I want to add to my TBR. Either the book about owls or the one about geese would be a good start. And Alan Rickman’s diaries sound very interesting.
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I hope you get to enjoy them! Thanks for reading.
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