my favourite non-fiction books EVER! (30 books) 📖

[@christy-anne-jones]

* there are actually 30 books on this list lol :-) Also! I'm going to do a Q&A video soon! I'd like to reflect on one year as an agented writer, but please feel free to ask any questions you like over on my Instagram story: instagram.com/christyannejones/

[@TheEccentricRaven]

One of my most favorite nonfiction books is "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures" by Anne Fadiman. It’s a powerful account of the Hmong people and immigration in America in general.

[@tonydeluna8095]

Christy Anne Jones with another amazing and beautiful video with a soothing voice! Love it on early Sunday mornings

[@christy-anne-jones]

Thank you so much for being here!!

[@denizozdemir7793]

As a Turkish person, I really appreciated you saying Türkiye. And great video by the way as always

[@christy-anne-jones]

No worries at all!! I would love to travel there one day. I can't wait to see the Hagia Sofia in person 💛💛

[@nicolealana775]

So glad you are feeling better! Always such a treat to come on KZbin and see a new upload from you ❤!

[@TheCoookieCrumb]

Braiding Sweetgrass! I listened to it this year and completely fell in love with it. It was profound and beautiful. The kind of book I felt everyone should read. She also read it with such warmth and earnestness. ❤❤

[@everadventuress]

Love the artists way and walking in this world.

[@____wicked.witch.of.the.words_]

Thank you for this cozy video ❤ I’m not a fan of nonfictions in general but I actually ended up adding a couple of books to my to-buy list 🤩 Thanks ❤

[@VivaLaDecadence]

One of my favorite nonfiction books I’ve read is “When Likes Aren’t Enough: a Crash Course in the Science of Happiness” by Tim Bono. Bono is a psychology professor and the book is very accessible! I randomly picked it up from the library and it made such a big impact on the way I approach things in my daily life

[@karenmiller1105]

I love non fiction so this video was amazing. Thanks.

[@MollyFrancesNurse]

If you liked Sapiens I really recommend you read Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty & Time, by Gaia Vince. She's a science journalist and I love her writing in general but that book is beautifully written and fascinating!

[@cozyaboutbooks]

In highschool during writting work about William Shakespeare I called him (almost thought whole text) Sakespeare.😅😅

[@christy-anne-jones]

to be fair, even Shakespeare didn't know how to write his own name correctly so maybe that's the correct spelling! (I could see myself doing the same thing, dw 😅😅)

[@christinacreech1974]

Your literary theory book just gave me PTSd because my literary theory professor made me realize that I didn’t need to be an English Major but a Creative Writing major because I already knew how to analyze literature but he was such an overanyzer! I really appreciated your mentioned abut literary theory. 😂

[@veronicayeakel6465]

If you enjoy Cultish- Check out "Wordslut" also by Amanda Montell. It's all about the inherent misogyny in the English language, how it got there over time, and ways to address it. I loved it!

[@MarcoMichelutto]

If you loved reading about Constantinople and want a novel that takes place partially in it during its sack you could check out Baudolino by Umberto Eco, which tells the story of a paesant turned advisor to the king and his adventures in medieval Europe and beyond. The book does an incredible job of intertwining the plot with the history and culture of that part of the Middle Ages, including the more fantastic aspects of it, it's one of my favourites and regular re-reads.

[@circleofleaves2676]

I loved Saga Land! I was particularly amused by that section about the small island off the coast off Iceland that had a very small population, and where the community was completely obsessed with chess. They were so hardcore about it that the opponent/loser was obligated to throw themselves off a cliff. I remember thinking, if folks stopped yeeting themselves off cliffs, maybe they'd have a bigger population 🤣

[@yumethefallenangel6572]

Hi! If you like ancient Greek and Roman history, and books, I’d recommend “Papyrus: the invention of books in the ancient world” by Spanish author Irene Vallejo, she tells the history of books in an amazing not-boring academic way, mixing bits of her experience when researching for the book. Aaaaand about notebooks I’d recommend “The notebook. A history of thinking on paper”, by Rollan Allen (very curious the chapter about how notebooks and economics enhaced each other). Great video btw, I noted down quite a few books hehehe📚

[@pestobee]

I feel like you'd really enjoy Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff, as well as some of her other books.

[@JeanetHenning]

Dunno if you've read "The Silk Road" By Peter Frankopan. It felt so accessible and slightly humour and I just found the overview of history and the human nature to repeat certain behaviours so interesting.

[@christy-anne-jones]

I haven't read it but it's been on my TBR for ages! Thank you for the rec 💛

[@caffeinatedhobgoblin]

Never Split the Difference is hilarious. My fiance got into sales and read the book to help him, so he'd practice the techniques with me so much that I now know when he's using it on me lmao it has also become a meme in our family 😂 it did actually help me a lot though with social anxiety and confidence with communication after growing up pretty sheltered.

[@kasialawecki7538]

If this makes you feel better. Grade 12 in Germany, preparing for A-Levels, first exam in advanced German class. I misspelled the great German poet Johan Wolfgang von Goethe completely. Instead of Goethe, I spelled his name Göthe. That’s how you would spell it phonetically in German. So wrong! Didn’t get a good mark either.

[@christy-anne-jones]

This seems like a reasonable spelling error though. Whereas I accidently turned Balzac's last name into a synonym for testicles 💀💀💀💀💀

[@nbcb96]

In my essay about Jane Eyre my spellcheck autocorrect it to air…….. every time I wrote her name.

[@riotgrrrlreadskatie]

Now I have a bunch to add to my tbr! One of my faves that I added this past year was A Fever in the Heartland: The KKK Plot to Take Over America and the Woman Who Stopped Them. Amazing story! I’m American and it was interesting reading this bit of history, but also linking it to the not so great stuff happening in my country currently. Strangely, it gave me hope in the end. Hopefully an interesting read for non-Americans as well 😊

[@bluecologie2962]

To me, "Sapiens" was written through more of an anthropology lens, which was deeply insightful, but still gives you a limited view of human history. I found "The Story of the Human Body" by Daniel E. Lieberman to be a great complement to "Sapiens" that delves further into deep time and gives you are fuller picture of our evolutionary and ecological origins. (if I remember correctly, in the last chapter he talks about what can be done to mitigate some the harmful aspects of modern life on the human body and I think he missed the mark a bit on some of his recommendations, but its a great read overall)

[@maite.figueroa7291]

Hi Christy! Thank you so much for all these beautiful recommendations I've found so many favorite books thanks to your videos. I recently read The bloody chamber and fell in absolute LOVE with Angela Carter's writing, i really want to read more from her but i don't know what to read next, I'm sure you gave some recommendations about this but i can't remember in which videos it was. So i would really really appreciate if you could tell me some other books from her that you have loved 🙏🏻

[@nicolealana775]

Were you familiar with the original stories that she was inspired by before reading this (like Blue Bird?) - I have Bloody Chamber but I’m wondering if I need to look into those first?

[@maite.figueroa7291]

​@@nicolealana775 Not at all!! Just go and read it, you really do not need to know the original stories. Angela Carter's stories are her own work, her stories are really different from the original fairytales, you get glimpses of them and she writes in a fairytale-like way but I insist, her work is her own, so just read it, her writing style is one of the most beautiful ones that I've read, it is so atmospheric and I absolutely adored all the stories ❤

[@nicolealana775]

@@maite.figueroa7291thank you so much!! ❤

[@circleofleaves2676]

Balsac 🤣🤣 Oh, dude.

[@christy-anne-jones]

still not the most embarassing thing I've done with my poor attention to detail 💀💀💀💀💀

[@camilaallende3999]

wish this books where avalible in spanish TT sound so good! hope you have a great week:)

[@isabeller6506]

I remember one of the inaccuracies that struck me when reading Sapiens was the section where he writes about how Indigenous Tasmanians were extinct. This is such an outdated myth which requires very little research to disprove, and kinda made me angry that it continues to be spread through this very popular book when there are thousands of Tasmanian Aboriginal people alive today.

[@Wistfulwanderer]

15:12 LOL LOVE THIS

[@BenStimpsonAuthor]

Owen Davies is abulous, I'm really hoping I can go study with him in his Masters program in England in the coming years, definitetly one of the pre-eminent researchers on wittchcraft next to Ronald Hutton.

[@BenStimpsonAuthor]

If you enjoy Icelandic legend AND also interested in witchcraft, may I be a snot and suggest the work of a friend of mine, Albert Shiell. Albert moved from England about 10 years ago and relocated to Iceland with his partner. He's been writing contemporary icelandic magic books and just released his 'Icelandic Folk Magic' ... what I appreciate about his work is he's learned Icelandic and is plugged in to the occult community on the island and has utilized the work of his friends who are scholars in the field of medieval and early modern icelandic folk magic which has not been translated in English. a humble suggestion as you like Sagaland

[@KellyTellyYouTube]

I wonder if you have read The Courage to be Disliked, especially in Japanese 🤔 It would be interesting to hear if there's different vibe between reading the English language vs the original language. Love your vids always btw!

[@christy-anne-jones]

I actually tried to read this one but abandoned it really quickly! One of the very few times a book has made me furious in its first chapter 😅 (because the author/narrator victim blames people with trauma)

[@KellyTellyYouTube]

@christy-anne-jones I see 👀 yea I can see how it can be frustrating, still appreciate that you gave it a try 👍

[@FvdK4604]

Will you make a video about Arcane 2, like you did for Arcane 1

[@trisharanon7921]

Hi Christy

[@christy-anne-jones]

Hello 💛

[@JohnSaxon-vw5vi]

Five 5️⃣ star ⭐️ video love 🥰 it and your amazing channel and content are you still in Australia as I am in Victoria ❤❤❤

[@anonymes2884]

Huh, is "tight"-ular the standard Aussie pronunciation ? Only ever heard it as "tit"-ular. Interesting :).

[@christy-anne-jones]

I don't actually know. It relates to titles is my logic, but that could be incorrect? Tit-u-la sounds funny to me, as opposed to tite-u-la

[@directorhistorian5561]

Mines are Hhhh by laurent binet and the biography of robert capa

[@PeterMacansky]