Jan. 12th, 2026

matsushima: our aspirations are wrapped up in books (book love)
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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

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