I'm pretty bad at reading comprehension but I love to learn.
I've tried The New Jim Crow, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Drift — no dice with any of them. I just get so lost so quickly.
I can read fiction okay, and I love memoirs, but I want to learn something.
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Animal Farm. Easy to read, but educates you about the rise of communism in Soviet Union.
An easy nonfiction read that I’ve learned a lot from is The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green. It’s a collection of essays.
Another digestible nonfiction read would be The Body by Bill Bryson
Maybe audio is a better method of learning for you? Some people learn better through listening. If you haven’t considered audiobooks, your local library likely has audiobooks you can check out on Libby (libbyapp.com), or Spotify offers 1 audiobook a month for premium subscribers.
I’d suggest maybe *A Short History of Nearly Everything* by Bill Bryson; a readable exploration of the universe and how we all got here.
I can’t read non-fiction, no matter how interested in the topic I am, I started listening to the audiobooks and following along with the physical book and it helps a lot
*How to Change Your Mind* by Michael Pollan is a fascinating read that in many ways can read like a present-tense memoir. It’s basically an investigative/research journal into the historical, clinical, and cultural applications of psychedelics for development/mental health, loaded with personal experiences/reports of the author himself taking those same psychedelics and how they impacted him, all after the age of 50!
It’s not a self-help book either, I want to make that clear haha.
{{The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman’s World by Robery Lacey}}
I have a reading comprehension disorder but I also really love to read and learn new stuff. I found the above book really interesting and it is delivered in simple and concise way.
I also just finished reading {{River of Blood: American Slavery from the People Who Lived It: Interviews & Photographs of Formerly Enslaved African Americans}} which is basically photographs paired with excerpts from interviews during the 1930s with formerly enslaved people in America.