community: snowflake_challenge Challenge #6

[matsushima]

Top 10 Challenge.

Here are my Top 10+ Nonfiction Books if You Want to Get into Nonfiction*:
*in no particular order

• Holy Sh＊t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
• Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age by Katherine May
• The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia by Grafton Tanner
• The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia by Laura Miller
• Saving Time: Discovering Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
• Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan
• The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Flemming
• Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone by Sarah Jaffe
• Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride by Peter Zheutlin
• Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman
• Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin
• Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto

… OK, I got excited and put in more than 10. I really love nonfiction! I got into it in 2015-2016 or so and, since 2020, it's been pretty much all I'm able to read consistently (save occasional forays into contemporary romance and domestic thriller, other genres I rarely read before the pandemic started). Even if you think of yourself as primarily a reader of fiction, there's something in here for you, as these are narrative nonfiction; I'd say The Family Romanov Most Dangerous are the most "novelistic" as reading experiences.

Next On My Nonfiction Reading List:

• All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now by Ruby Tanoh
• Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream by Megan Greenwell

Comments

[lucy_roman]

A really interesting list. I read fiction and non fiction. The books you chose sound intriguing.

[autobotscoutriella]

Ooh, I've been meaning to read the history of swearing one! Most of the nonfiction I read is biology stuff (I'm working on a History Of Sharks book right now), but these would be a great way to branch out a little.

[greetingsfrommaars]

ooh interesting. most of these are new to me, thanks!