Hey bookworm friends, since I recently read a couple of nonfics I thought I’d share the very small list of ones I’ve read through the years. Or, at least the ones worth remembering, I may be excluding one or two that I wish I could forget š. The title should say Complete(ish) but that’s not SEO-friendly so that will be our little secret š. Given that this is not my preferred genre, I thought it would be fun to document my brief dips into various topics that captured my attention. I’m framing this list as my starting point and hope to use it as a motivator to grow the List of Nonfiction Books under my belt.
Please Note: I catalogue biographies and memoirs I read separately from the nonfiction books so I’ll make another list featuring those later.
List of Nonfiction Books
The Art Thief – Michael FinkelāTrue Crime
Why I Picked It Up: I needed a book with a bat on the cover for a reading prompt & this one came to mind first.
How I Felt About It: I really enjoyed it & was utterly engrossed! My Review.
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Poyums – Len PennieāPoetry
Why I Picked It Up: I like the creator and have been following her on social media so I wanted to check out her book.
How I Felt About It: I don’t know anything about poetry but connected to her poems. My Review.
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Freedom Is A Constant Struggle – Angela Y. Davis ā Politics, Social Justice, History
Why I Picked It Up: I wanted to educate myself a bit on the concept of collective liberation to read something that pertains to the situation in Palestine.
How I Felt About It: It was a tough but important read. It was insightful and helped me understand some things so I’m glad I read it. It also made me realize how much I don’t know, which is equally as valuable.
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Bring It On: The Complete Story of the Cheerleading Movie That Changed, Like, Everything – Kase Wickman āPop Culture, Film
Why I Picked It Up: My brother gifted it to me for Christmas one year and we used to watch this movie obsessively as kids so of course I read it!
How I Felt About It: This was a fun read, I especially liked the second part which talked about the legacy of the movie with a focus on how cultural perceptions change with time.
4 More Nonfiction Books I Read
Eating Animals – Jonathan Safran Foer āFood, Environment, Philosophy
Why I Picked It Up: One of my friends recommended it because I’ve been saying I want to read more nonfiction books about the environment.
How I Felt About It: Another difficult, fascinating yet depressing read but I’m also glad to have read it. I appreciated how non-preachy and nuanced it is while being utterly unflinching at the same time.
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The Psychopath Test – Jon Ronson āPsychology, Science
Why I Picked It Up: Further proof that friend recommendations work on me sometimes š I then recruited my friend and my husband to read it with me!
How I Felt About It: This was an engaging read and it generated a lot of discussion.
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The Sawbones Book – Justin McElroy & Sydnee McElroy āMedicine, Humour
Why I Picked It Up: Great question, since I never listened to the podcastš I saw it in my library’s catalogue, thought it looked cool and that’s about it.
How I Felt About It: I’m more lukewarm about this one, It was certainly entertaining and I find the subject matter fascinating but I remember it had a ton of typos.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects – Neil MacGregorāHistory, Art, Archaeology
Why I Picked It Up: I’ve already mentioned this book several times on my blog (see this #6Degrees of Separation Post), but I read it from a university professor’s recommendation.
How I Felt About It: This is one I adored when I read it in 2017 so probably considered my fav nonfiction bookāwhich isn’t saying much since I’ve read like 8ābut still.
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Let’s chat in the comments!
What are your favourite genres to read? Do you read nonfiction? If so, what are some of your favourites?
How did you like the Ronson title? I read it last year and found it absolutely fascinating. It pairs nicely with Will Store’s “The Unpersuadables”.
I couldn’t possibly begin to list all of my nonfiction reads, but history, science, and society are the big three.
Your whole blog is I’m sure not even the entirely of all of your nonfic reads! š & I really enjoyed the Ronson book, it was my first by him but it was fascinating, I agree. I read it in 2021 so I don’t recall all the details but I know I liked it. I’ll have to check out synopsis for The Unpersuadables!
I have Psychopath Test on my TBR. I keep intending to try it but have yet to do so.
Ah, cool okay. Well I hope you enjoy it if you pick it up and I do think it was entertaining and interesting.
I read Eating Animals about 10 (?) years ago and promptly stopped eating meat – I feel like that’s the highest praise I can give: this book changed my mind. š
I have The Psychopath Test on the bookshelf to read … may have to bump that up.
Great post and an interesting range of books/subjects.
Oh wow, that is very high praise indeed!
Cool, I hope you like The Psychopath Test if you do read it, I remember being engrossed by it when I read it a while ago.
Thank you so much ā„
I never read non fiction so I’d consider 8 a lot š it’s great how varied the ones that you’ve read seem to be too. Sawbones sounds kind of interesting but that typo issue sounds worrying. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Bring It On, I definitely think it’s lovely that you got to experience the book for the nostalgia involved though. I have a couple of non fiction books on my TBR (a few of which I heard of from you) so I’ll really have to try and check one of them out sometime. My priority TBR is just always in the way šš
Well I am glad you think so š¤! Since Sawbones is based off of a Podcast it kind of collects stories from the podcast I just wish more attention was paid to the finishing details of it. & Oh Bring It On was my childhood movie, my brother and I could quote the heck out of it and the funny part is we didn’t know what half the things meant until we were older (it being a teen movie and we were young kids) š. That dang priority TBR, if it could only read itself š¤£š¤£Hehee jk, doing the reading yourself is the fun part! lol