Book Recommendations | Fiction & Nonfiction Matchups!

[@jacquelinemcmenamin8204]

Love this idea Olive. Please make more of these videos in 2024. 🤗🍀👋☘️🤩

[@abookolive]

I make sure to make one every year during Nonfiction November! It's a tradition I've come to love 😊

[@meljstephan]

Know My Name by Chanel Miller paired with Beartown by Fredrik Backman 84, Charing Cross Road by Helena Hanff paired with The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Between the World and Me by Ts-Nehisi Coates paired with Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

[@rocio_monbb]

Suena muy interesante esta idea de combinar lecturas lo voy a intentar, gracias por las recomendaciones 😊💜

[@annegibson6072]

The Collected Regrets of Clover is my favorite fiction of the year. I took care of my Mom for five years as she died of congestive heart failure. I have never so identified with a novel in my life before this one.

[@abookolive]

I'm so sorry for your loss

[@MLLatUtube]

This was very interesting! The only time I have paired nonfiction with fiction was reading The Soul of an Octopus after Beautiful Creatures. It was a great pairing that enhanced both books and I am eager to try more. Thanks for the suggestions!

[@the_eerie_faerie_tales]

that's what I'm doing! ☺ I just left a comment mentioning Soul of an Octopus and Remarkably Bright Creatures. 🐙

[@katsnoveladventures1863]

Great idea of matching up fiction with nonfiction.

[@abookolive]

Thanks! It's great fun 😊

[@crystalresler5534]

What a fantastic idea...never thought to do this!

[@abookolive]

Thank you! 😊

[@sandraraedeer4849]

O love pairing a fiction and non fiction together.

[@abookolive]

😁👏

[@bookwalk1]

I really enjoy reading books this way too! I love The Collected Regrets of Clover. I have wanted to read Being Mortal for a long time and Death Is But a Dream sounds like a great pairing with the Clover book.

[@cunningba]

I tend to do this a lot. I’ll find a novel or two by an author that I like and then go read a biography about them. I did that with Robert Louis Stevenson, Booth Tarkington, Walter Lippman, George Orwell, Bret Harte, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, James Joyce, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, Carl Sandburg, John L. Stephens, Sir Francis Younghusband, T. E. Lawrence, and others. But sometimes it happens the other way around. A great new biography comes out about an author I’d been idly meaning to explore for a half century or so. Such was the case recently with Sylvia Plath. After hearing many favorable reviews of Red Comet, I picked up a copy after a long wait at the library. One really wanted to read all of Sylvia Plath along with it. I settled for a ménage a trois: Red Comet, The Bell Jar, and Sylvia Plath’s Collected Poems. That’s the pairing I’m recommending. (OK. Imagine Jefferson Starship playing that David Crosby song in the background.) The only thing missing would have been a collection of all her short stories. I couldn’t figure out how to assemble them affordably at the time.

[@sydneysomer9958]

Your makeup looks fabulous!! Thanks for the recommendations! 😊 I really want to read The Wager!

[@fractured_stories]

I love this concept! Thank you.

[@Barefootapril]

Just finished listening to The Wager, it was fantastic! I loved it on Audible! Thanks for the recommendation of How Magicians think, I’m intrigued and adding it to my TBR list!

[@OhioEddieBlack]

The Wager was SO good. Killers OTFM was so good that I was afraid this one would let me down but nope - it was just as well researched, and just as fascinating. And you're so right - when I was discussing the book with my sisters one of them said it was very LoTF and we all agreed.

[@LiterateTexan]

Oh, also -- everything by Atul Gawande is worth reading. What a thrill to see a recommendation for one of his books here. This list could keep me busy for a couple of weeks, for sure.

[@julierogers1155]

A BRILLIANT idea and post! Thank you. I am going to start with: The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer Death is But a Dream by Christopher Kerr Being Mortal by Atul

[@abookolive]

Thank you! I hope you enjoy the books - keep the tissues close by!

[@julierogers1155]

Yikes, ok!

[@krzysamm7095]

Your videos always give me pause to think about what am I reading and why as well as a chance to add to my possibilities list. 😊

[@MsCamiJMU]

Acts of Violet has a very animated audiobook!

[@sanchari.c]

Loved this video. I always, always find such interesting books in your videos. Love your channel!

[@allisonryder4781]

What a fantastic video you put together for us! I hadn’t thought of this type of reading experience before! I’ll be checking out the playlist! ❤🇨🇦

[@ssg8051]

Hi Allison, I could not agree with you more. Cheers, Ardith

[@stephenn3727]

Great idea! Thank you

[@the_eerie_faerie_tales]

I LOVE this! I do this whenever I can. Sometimes I know the non-fic book I want to read in tandem with a fic book beforehand, and sometimes I don't know until I go to read something and discover the reference. Example: I'm going to be reading nonfic Soul of an Octopus then Remarkably Bright Creatures. Also going to read nonfic about Russian Folklore before reading The Winternight series. I was reading The Stationery Shop and discovered a lot of Rumi references, since I already had some Rumi poetry, I read that alongside it. Also when I was reading Middlegame, I realized it's a Chess reference, so I got a book on How to Play Chess and a little chess board and now I'm teaching myself (again, been a while). I have a bunch more examples but I'll leave it there for now. ☺

[@readingtoplants8955]

I love this concept. I've done this a lot especially since I read a great deal of historical fiction. I like listening to the nonfiction book on audiobook in between reading the physical fiction book :)

[@valenciataylor4966]

I recently finished Acts of Violet. Agree on the ending. It sparked my interest in the work of magicians

[@joyceredman2136]

I finished reading the Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches along with The Penguin Book of Witches edited by Katherine Howe (has actual cases of witchcraft trial records); starting to read Astor by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe. I didn't plan to read the similar authors just the books!

[@angelaluz405]

Now I absolutely have to get How Magicians Think! It sounds wonderful. They all do, but this one is calling to me louder than he others.

[@abookolive]

It's so fun! It's great on audio, too.

[@kartik3719]

I'd love to see this video with other types of media as well! Like, if you enjoyed this tv show/movie read this nonfiction 🤗

[@abookolive]

It's funny you mention that, because I made one of those during Nonfiction November a couple of years ago! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpXOk3d8nbeJY7M I'd love to make another one, so I'll keep that in mind - thank you!

[@09Klatu]

I just read The Prestige and am looking at How Magicians Think! Synchronicity! I often find things I’m interested in reading about in books then I just jump into the next topic! It’s fun!

[@abookolive]

What a fun coincidence! I feel the same way about bouncing from topic to topic 😁

[@ireallyamjomarch]

This is such a neat idea! I totally agree about The Wager paired with Lord of the Flies, it’s one of those stories that seems false it’s just so full of what else can go wrong. I recently read Eden’s Outcasts: Louisa May Alcott and her Father by John Matteson and it provided so much context to one of my favorite books, Little Women so I can’t wait to go back and reread it.

[@abookolive]

Have you read Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy by Anne Boyd Rioux?

[@ireallyamjomarch]

@@abookoliveno I have not, but that would be great to read alongside my reread! There’s also another book I started and had to return to the library: Marmee and Louisa by Eve LaPlante and Louisa on the Front Lines by Samantha Seiple.

[@petrina7883]

Thank you - loved this. I recommend “Frankenstein” and “ romantic outlaws ( non fiction) and “Tsarina (fiction) and Catherine the Great by Robert Massie

[@MsReadsAlot]

I saw the wager in Barnes and noble and resisted picking it up. Very intrigued by it 😊 the collected regrets of clover was magnificent. Absolutely a favorite read of the year. I couldn’t put it down. I will have to look up death is but a dream.

[@abookolive]

I strongly suspect Clover will be one of my very top novels if not THE best novel of this year!

[@MMjones6459]

You made me want to read Acts of Violet - thanks

[@JohnSaxon-vw5vi]

Great video and great idea I am going to give this a try and see how I go prayers and blessings to you and your family love your Aussie family friend John ❤❤❤

[@abookolive]

Thanks John!

[@JohnSaxon-vw5vi]

@@abookolive no problem 😉

[@noook21]

amazing work!

[@abookolive]

Thanks!

[@mayagopalak]

Great fiction non fiction pairings Olive one pairing I’d like to recommend is Babel (RF Kuang) and Amitav Gosh’s Smokes and Ashes. The background is the colonial exploitation of China during the opium war!

[@-ParisTexas-]

I would like to suggest another pairing with Lord of the Flies. I recommend Humankind by Rutger Bregman. It is very insightful and leaves you with a much more positive outlook on life. Btw, Lord of the Flies doesn't have a plane crash... The boys are shipwrecked. ;)

[@abookolive]

I'll have to check out Humankind, thanks! But yes, the boys are stranded after a plane crashes. I made sure to look it up before I filmed this video since it's been a long while since I read it! 😊

[@-ParisTexas-]

@@abookolive My bad, you are right. I got it mixed up with the story in Humankind. :)

[@LiterateTexan]

What a great idea for a video. Do you have a recommendation for a nonfiction book that would be a good pairing with The Color Purple by Alice Walker?

[@abookolive]

Thanks! I still haven't read The Color Purple, so I don't know what'd I match up with it.

[@LiterateTexan]

@@abookolive I was going to suggest Uncle Tom's Cabin, but then I remembered that's a novel, too!