I swear, I spent my whole life strictly reading only fantasy and sci-fi. And as soon as I turn 30 I cannot stop picking up non-fictions. Problem is, it's such a new genre for me and I haven't build up enough TBR.
Here's what I read recently. I kind of pick whatever sound interesting without having a concrete interest in anything in particular. Feel free to let me know what I should read next!
Doppelganger by Naomi Kleine
Easy Money (Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud) by Jacob Silverman and Ben McKenzie
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The Season (A Social Hisotru of Debutante) by Kristen Richardson
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
Threads of Life by Claire Hunter
The Lost Rainforest of Great Britain by Guy Shrubsole
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The Wager by David Grann was fantastic
Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. Couldn’t put it down!
(Re-)Read Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods” and it is excellent on so many levels.
Summer for the Gods – About the Scopes Monkey Trial
A Killing in Cannabis: A True Story of Love, Murder, and California Weed By Eden, Scott
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century By Johnson, Kirk W.
Jimmy the King: Murder, Vice, and the Reign of a Dirty Cop By Garcia-Roberts, Gus
Both Benjamin Labatut’s books (in English)
Flower Confidential- Amy Stewart
Color of Water, a black man’s tribute to his white mother. – James McBride
Life on Air – David Attenbourgh
Sand County Almanac – Aldo Leopold
Here if you need me – Kate Braestrup
You have to read Dopesick if you like Empire of pain.
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
Im currently reading Why I write by George Orwell
Just finished *A Mind of My Own*, Kathy Burke’s memoir. She’s a British actor/writer/director/genius, and I absolutely love her, so was thrilled she published this last year.
Currently reading *Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body* by Sara Pascoe. Very interesting, very feminist, lots of fascinating science explaining why women’s bodies and minds are the way they are.
Labyrinth of Ice by Buddy Levy
1880s Polar exploration gone…very wrong.
5 stars and I’m not even finished.
– Not My Type by E Jean Carroll
– Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
– Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
– The Uncool by Cameron Crowe
– Family of Spies by Christine Kuehn
**Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within by Elif Shafak**
Even though I’m a man, single and never want to get married, for some reason I love women’s voices and reading about how they see the world and the challenges they face.
The author never wanted to be a mother then she becomes one. She uses her feeling about this journey as the base from which she writes about women, motherhood in general and how it effected he writing.
**A People’s History of the United States: 1492 – Present by Zinn, Howard**
History of US but by trying to highlight the suffering off the people rather than the glory of a few. For example the founding fathers were the rich, land owning and politic making and everyone else was basically left out, and every “good” thing (everything that other books would sell as amazing) was don to protect these people’s capital and social standing
**The Story of World War II: Revised, expanded, and updated from the original text by Henry Steele Commager by Commager, Henry Steele**
I really liked this one
**Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond**
I think it is a must read,
**Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li**
I never read anything like this. The author lost two sons of suicide and in this book she rights about her second son’s suicide.
**A History of My Brief Body by Belcourt, Billy-Ray**
I’m going to quote Goodreads, as I honestly found it ODDLY memorising. I definitely need to read it again.
> Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. Piece by piece, Billy-Ray’s writings invite us to unpack and explore the big and broken world he inhabits every day, in all its complexity and a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it; first loves and first loves lost; sexual exploration and intimacy; the act of writing as a survival instinct and a way to grieve. What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory, gender, anger, shame, and ecstasy, but also the outline of a way forward. With startling honesty, and in a voice distinctly and assuredly his own, Belcourt situates his life experiences within a constellation of seminal queer texts, among which this book is sure to earn its place. Eye-opening, intensely emotional, and excessively quotable, A History of My Brief Body demonstrates over and over again the power of words to both devastate and console us.
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