Nonfiction November: Sounds Good

Well, I’ve managed to add a LOT of books to my TBR list already in this November Nonfiction Month, just by looking at all the first week posts that people wrote about their year in nonfiction reads. I could have added more, but I tried to restrain myself.

The Great Pretender – The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan. Recommended at Booklovers Pizza.

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann. Recommended at Booklovers Pizza.

The Library Book by Susan Orlean Recommended at Loulou Reads.

Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11 by James Donovan. Recommended by Julz Reads.

Forty Autumns: A Family’s Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner. Recommended by Julz Reads. Also recommended at Novel Visits.

When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II by Guptill Manning. Recommended by Julz Reads.

The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber. Recommended by Julz Reads.

The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper. Recommended at booksaremyfavoriteandbest.

Warriors Don’t Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High by Melba Patillo Bealls. Recommended at Based on a True Story.

Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew by Michael D. Leinbach and Jonathan H. Ward. Recommended at Based on a True Story.

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar. Recommended at Musings of a Literary Wanderer.

Eiffel’s Tower: The Story of the 1889 World’s Fair by Jill Jonnes. Recommended by Deb Nance at Readerbuzz.

Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America by James M. and Deborah Fallows. Recommended by Deb Nance at Readerbuzz.

Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt by Arthur C. Brooks. Recommended by Deb Nance at Readerbuzz. Also recommended at Howling Frog Books.

My Glory Was I Had Such Friends by Amy Silverstein. Recommended at Mind Joggle.

Beyond The Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan by Ursula Buchan. Recommended at What Cathy Read Next.

How To Think by Alan Jacobs. Recommended at Howling Frog Books.

Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley. Recommended at Bookworm Chronicles.

The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne. Recommended at Brona’s Books.

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara. Recommended at The Writerly Reader.

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carrryrou. Recommended at An Adventure in Reading. Also recommended at Novel Visits.

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell. Recommended at Doing Dewey.

Fixing the Fates: An Adoptee’s Story of Truth and Lies by Diane Dewey. Recommended at Superfluous Reading.

Avidly Reads Board Games by Eric Thurm. Recommended at Superfluous Reading.

Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out by Jim Burns. Recommended at Lisa notes . . .

The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett Graff. Recommended at Novel Visits.

Twelve Patients: Life and Death in Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer. Recommended at Hopewell’s Library of Life.

Philippines My Faraway Home by Mary McKay Maynard. Recommended at Hopewell’s Library of Life.

Syria’s Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege by Mike Thomson. Recommended at Book’d Out.

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson. Recommended at Kristin Kraves Books.

4 thoughts on “Nonfiction November: Sounds Good

  1. Thanks for the mention!!The smileys i posted earlier got converted to question marks so decided to comment again- Anjana@superfluousreading

  2. And now I’ve added even more to my TBR list from your TBR list, including When Books Went to War. 🙂 I’m loving Nonfiction November! (Although it’s wreaking havoc on my TBR list, ha) I also loved Warrior Don’t Cry as well as How to Think.

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