20 Nonfiction Book Recs in 20 Minutes! || Nonfiction November || November 2022 [CC]

[@esmayrosalyne]

Love this video!! I am currently listening to The Radium Girls and dammit... that book is mentally exhausting to read, but I love it. I adored Just Mercy when I read it back in February, Bryan Stevenson is way too good for this world. And I actually just finished The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton, who was one of Bryan's clients. His story (of being incarcerated for 30 years and put on death row while innocent) was equally devastating and uplifting, definitely worth a read/listen! One of my favourite memoirs I've read this year is Dear Senthuran by Awkwaeke Emezi. It was such a raw, honest, challenging and bold memoir, which really taught me a lot about their world views and life experiences. Highly recommend it! Thanks for all the recs!! 🥰

[@marciajohansson769]

Great video with excellent recommendations. I have several of these books but were adding more to my list! Killers of the Flower Moon is one of them!

[@ThatsSoPoe]

So many books on here I've been wanting to get to (Evicted, Just Mercy, Undocumented Americans)!! White Rage is well worth the read, even though I did find it hard to get through. One of my favorite nonfiction books this year that was just such a quick read was Antigone Rising by Helen Morales, which looks at how we interpret & use classical mythology to build social narratives for modern society from a very intersectional feminist lens.

[@yanivrc]

A really diverse variety of books, will take a look at some of them. thanks!

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Thank you for watching!

[@lauras9071]

I'm definitely checking out Range. This was such a fun video, especially revisiting some books

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

I do think I need to find an audiobook of Range to help me get through the low points in job hunting haha

[@annalisaslibrary]

Braiding Sweetgrass and White Rage are both ones I really learned a lot from

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

I just bothered my mom the other day to see if she has finished Braiding Sweetgrass yet so I can reread this winter haha

[@SarahAsYouWish]

Great list. A few of my favorites on here and a few I’d like to pick up.

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Which ones are your favorites??

[@SarahAsYouWish]

Braiding Sweetgrass and Just Mercy are two of my all time non-fiction favorites.

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

@@SarahAsYouWish both are probably in my top 5 as well!

[@birtes1825]

I love this video and I hope you'll do an updated one next year! I read most of these or want to and have high hopes for them now. A nonfiction I loved was "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker I believe. I've never not slept through a night since I finished that book!

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Not sure if I will have read enough to do a full other video next year BUT I will try and do one everytime I have 10-20 new nonfiction to talk about!

[@rebelzucchini]

My top two recs would be Catch & Kill by Ronan Farrow and Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (this one's along the lines of Evicted, only in a slum in Mumbai). For memoirs you need to read Know My Name by Chanel Miller and Born a Crime by Trevor Noah - but definitely check TWs. For history related stuff I liked Symphony for the City of the Dead about Shostakovich's 7th

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Thank you for the recommendations!

[@themusicsnob]

This was a fun video concept. Lots of great recommendations here, and I may steal the idea and do something similar!😊

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Feel free!! Thanks for the kind words

[@katelyn2738]

I recommend Half the Sky l for learning about the oppression of women worldwide! Just Mercy is incredible and should be a must read for everyone

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Just Mercy was something I read I think in 2018 and I still think about it all the time, thank you for the recommendation!

[@TheBookCure]

If you like PRK’s style, you should definitely read Empire of Pain! Just prepare to be angry (as is the case with so many works of nonfiction 😝). I also love Lucy Cooke’s nonfiction about weird animal facts/ evolution. Her book “Bitch” is like a mashup of Animal Planet + Invisible Women. So good!

[@zixaz00]

Omg I’m reading Empire of Pain now and it’s just constant anger throughout

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

We have lots of addiction in my family so I keep "Saving" Empire of Pain for when my mental health can handle it, who knows when that will be haha Also I might need to get that animal facts book for my friend, thanks for putting it on my radar!

[@tammietriestoread]

it's so interesting cos i think the thing that i was disappointed by in just mercy was that it didn't go deep enough on the more nitty gritty legal side of things 😂 so i definitely agree that it is accessible, i just had the wrong expectations going in just because the author is a laywer. i reallyyyy need to read braiding sweetgrass! one of my favourite books of the year is actually a non-fiction called last boat out of shanghai by helen zia! i super recommend the audiobook but it's a historical non-fiction about 4 young people during the communist revolution and it's so so engaging and well-written

[@KristinKravesBooks]

So many amazing recommendations! We share a lot of favourites and I just added a bunch to my tbr. Have you read The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton? He was on death row and was one of Bryan Stevenson's clients. I also loved Radium Girls and I am hoping to get to The Woman They Could Not Silence by the same author at some point this month!!

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

The Woman They Could Note Silence is also on my radar!

[@chrisconnors7418]

I’ve read some of those (Quiet, Sweetgrass, Radium). They’re good. I want to try Range, and Mediocre because I’m a generalist but fell into a specialization (bioacoustics) that strangely enough requires generalist knowledge to fully complement it; and because I’m curious to see how Mediocre builds on The Peter Principle (a book that explained why so many incompetent people rose to positions of authority-I’m sure he was partly joking but it certainly offers an intriguing hypothesis). Some I’d recommend are: The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong The Ice at the End of the World by Jon Gertner Pandemic by Sonia Shah (written before Covid, prescient)-I mentioned this one before Voyage of the Turtle by Carl Safina

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Thank you for the recommendations!

[@chrisalluna6733]

☢😨!!! Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate...by Manjit Kumar, read it some years back. Probably re-read next year. I also have an Alexander Scriabin bio I keep putting off!! 😊🎶

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Is that about the history of quantum?? That sounds like something I would enjoy!

[@chrisalluna6733]

@@LiteratureScienceAlliance Yes! jumps from Newton to 1859 theorists to modern day! Compelling, and incredibly, sometimes a nail bitter! Excellent read.

[@buriedinbooks3847]

Besides my strange obsession with Everest nonfiction, I still think a lot about Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation and Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town.

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

I have not heard about Can't Even but I feel like I should check that out!

[@JashanaC]

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[@RafBlutaxt]

This was very interesting. I am not a huge reader of popular non-fiction, probably academic snobbery on my part. That being said I am intrigued by Disfigured, feels like something I might find interesting as I do most likely lack the vocabulary to express my rage at ableism and the depiction of disability in fiction. As for non-fiction I recently read and found very interesting: The Dawn Of Everything by David Graeber and David Vengrow is a great response to books like Sapiens and Guns, Germs And Steel from a more progressive, dare I say anarchist perspective by two very qualified authors. Orientalism by Eward Zaid is an absolute must-read for anyone reading fiction that deals with the middle and far east and the way academia is so often used as a tool for politics. I sometimes read non-fiction that I know to have had a huge impact on fiction writers I enjoy just to see how the one influenced the other.

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

I think popular nonfiction is general written in a more accessible writing style which I appreciate because being in academia I HATE how we write, its usually dense for the sake of density and uses jargon in sort of a gatekeepy way so that only those in the field can easily understand the work. Idk as someone who values communication efficiency popular nonfiction is something I appreciate! Thank you for putting some of these other works on my radar!

[@RafBlutaxt]

@@LiteratureScienceAlliance I agree with that, hence my use of snobbery here. There certainly is a conversation to be had about the balance between readability and jargon in academic writing and popular non-fiction fulfills an important role in the communication of knowledge there.

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[@Stewart000]

I struggle reading non-fiction. But one that I really enjoyed was The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice by Trevor Corson and Narrated by Brian Nishii. It is the journey of one person to become a sushi chef and also provides some history behind sushi and why its served the way that it is. I was fascinated with the story from beginning to end- learned so much along the way. Another one and its a memoir is Diary of a Redneck Opera Zinger by Jay Morris. Its funny and wasn't hard to get through at all. I'm realizing that the easiest way to get me to say something nice about a non-fiction book is if its a biography / memoir that has a good narrative. Caste has been on my want to read someday list. I really appreciate your recommendations! ☣☢

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Memoirs are for sure a great entry into getting into nonfiction. Also that Sushi memoir sounds really interesting!

[@msrichardsreads]

Great list! I really enjoyed Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievitch. Hard but so good. I enjoyed Ace as well! 🧪🧪🧪

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Having watched Chernobyl on HBO I am not sure if I can read more Chernobyl nonfiction, radiation just freaks me out SO much

[@toniweller6008]

I think Just Mercy is the best nonfiction book I've ever read.🧪

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

I think it would be hard to rank all my favorites but I think it would be up there for me as well!

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