I’m a library assistant planning a book tasting program. I’d like to have a variety of fiction and non-fiction titles, and am seeking suggestions for non-fiction books (including biographies!) that might appeal to someone who typically gravitates to romance novels.
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• *Romance is My Day Job: A Memoir of Finding Love at Last* by Patience Bloom
• *My Year of Really Bad Dates: A Memoir* by Rachel Lithgow
• *Loveland: A Memoir of Romance and Fiction* by Susan Ostrov
• *Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Affair — On-Screen and Off — Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy* by Sharon Rich
• *Royal Romances: Titillating Tales of Passion and Power in the Palaces of Europe* by Leslie Carroll
• *Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen* by Jane Hawking
• *Checkmate! The Love Story of Mikhail Tal and Sally Landau* by Sally Landau
If you do a search over at r/romancebooks there are a few threads over there on the topic!
Just Kids by Patti Smith (if they don’t mind that it’s sad)
**Biography:**
Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
Jane Austen’s Wardrobe by Hilary Davidson
Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen by Kate Evans
The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography by Janine Barchas
Wild for Austen by Devoney Looser
Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney
Jane Austen’s Garden by Molly Williams
The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
Positive Obsession by Octavia E. Butler
Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Fearless and Free by Josephine Baker
The Diary of Frida Kahlo
Life Among Savages by Shirley Jackson
**Memoir:**
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
Strangers Assume My Girlfriend is My Nurse by Shane Burcaw
Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Relish by Lucy Knisley
Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets: A Real-Life Scottish Fairy Tale by Jessica A. Fox
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Bite by Bite by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Cultivating Delight by Diane Ackerman
Inciting Joy by Ross Gay
Being Seen by Elsa Sjunneson
Moby D by Krista Burton
Naked by Fancy Feast
An Honest Woman by Charlotte Shane
The Loves of My Life by Edmund White
Insomniac City by Bill Hayes
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
**History:**
How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England by Ruth Goodman
If Walls Could Talk by Lucy Worsley
Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self Portraits by Frances Borzello
Searching for Sappho by Philip Freeman
The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel
A Curious History of Sex by Kate Lister
Harlots, Whores, and Hackabouts by Kate Lister
Strapless by Deborah Davis
The Ladies of Llangollen by Elizabeth Mavor
Immodest Acts by Judith C. Brown
Sex and Sexuality in Georgian Britain by Mike Rendell
Bisexuality in the Ancient World by Eva Cantarella
**On Books and Bookshops:**
Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire
The Diaries of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by James Patterson
Why We Read by Shannon Reed
The Bookshop by Evan Friss
Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
Hidden Hands by Mary Wellesley
**On Love, Sex, and the Body:**
A Quick and Easy Guide to Consent by Isabella Rotman
Consent by Jennifer Lang
All About Love by bell hooks
Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn
Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski
Sex Ed by Ruby Rare
Sex Talks by Vanessa Marin
Carnal Knowledge by Zoe Ligon
The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability by Miriam Kaufman
Hot and Unbothered by Yana Tallon-Hicks Hot and Unbothered by Yana Tallon-Hicks
Come Together by Emily Nagoski
The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
The Artifice of Beauty by Sally Pointer
More Than a Body by Lindsay & Lexie Kite
Beyond Beautiful by Anuschka Rees
Pixel Flesh by Ellen Atlanta
Flawless by Elise Hu
The Sexual Evolution by Nathan H. Lents
The Language of Emotions by Karla McLaren
How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett
Projections: A Story of Human Emotions by Karl Deisseroth
Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown
Securely Attached by Eli Harwood
Attached by Amir Levine
**General Nonfiction:**
Being a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
“Nicholas and Alexandra” by Robert K Massie