NON-FICTION NOVEMBER TBR

[@LittleJoSleep]

The "well" at 7:58 kills me. 😭💔😭💔😭💔😭

[@JessOwens]

😩😩😩

[@kelleylovesbooks5688]

I put Jesus and John Wayne in everyone’s hands when I can. It explains so much about their heinous long game and motivations. I have even bought people copies when they say how can they put aside this and that and vote for him. This book explains how they don’t put it aside - it is because of this and that - and it is stunning! Puts things in perspective and allows us to reframe our expectations of the motivations of evangelicals. Helps to understand how they go against what we think they believe. Then we can have proper expectations. This will make sense when you read it and I am so tired since the election. I know I am probably not expressing myself properly. I am so tired. Will need to rally soon. For now, I rot and wallow.

[@JessOwens]

Oh, now i really want to read it. Even though it will enrage me, I still want to know WHY they are this way. UGH

[@dimerymichaels3539]

I have got to read this!

[@saraayres8505]

Officially added to my TBR now.

[@catsandbats77]

I grew up in the evangelical church and it's taken me many, many years to deconstruct. Honestly, I still have more healing to do. One of the first things that changed for me when I left the church was my political leaning, because instead of being preached at about what "christian values" were, I had time to truly examine what I believed.

[@Yosoybean]

My nonfiction reading is definitely going to go up cause it feels like half the country has their foot on our necks while asking to be our friends. And I’m definitely not just going to lay here.

[@brwngrlwrld]

"Well"🤣 7:52

[@JessOwens]

The pain 😭

[@bethloubet4650]

My best non-fiction read this year was How to Say Babylon. Memoir of a female poet raised in a strict Jamaican Rastafarian household. Heartbreaking, but beautiful.

[@JessOwens]

Oooh that’s on my TBR!

[@Beafree1975]

Ugh, I'm with you. I've felt down since the elections. I left christianity a year ago so I was hopeful about Harris winning, her last speech made me cry. I'll be listening to audio books while I learn to knit. I will be borrowing some of the books you mentioned. We will get through this.

[@JessOwens]

🫂 🥲

[@toocoolformiddleschoolblog]

Jesus and John Wayne is incredible because it helps you see right through everything that evangelical fundamentalists do to manipulate politics through religion. The Anthropocene Reviewed will balance it out to help restore *some* faith in humanity.

[@dimerymichaels3539]

Say Nothing is literally the best book I’ve ever read!! The audio is 20/10!!! I found it much easier to follow. ❤❤❤

[@JFPennywise]

I'm reading Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China by Leta Hong Fincher and Catherine de Medici by Leonie Frieda this month

[@graceemacee]

The Anthropocene Reviewed is so tender and hopeful. There are definitely some rage inducing bits since he wrote it during COVID, so some of that dread is woven throughout the essays. Jesus and John Wayne is incredible, I think it should be required reading for all Americans.

[@resoketswem.manenzhe157]

I've also been struggling with "consuming" everything about the genocide. It's truly heartbreaking; I totally get it.

[@otherrtrouble]

My current nonfiction read is "We Have Always Been Here" , a queer muslim memoir by Samra Habib

[@lilistar-j1y]

1:56 As someone from Northern Ireland I've had Say Nothing on my TBR for years just need to be in the right zone to read it and learn more about our history

[@gritshelme]

Well, my library holds list just grew by a lot. All books I either hadn't heard of but they sound fascinating, or stuff I've been meaning to read for ages! Thanks for the push to finally get to some of these!

[@nickdaruler]

I’m almost finished with “Black Boy Smile” by D. Watkins. Love it!

[@sophilozophy]

Written In Bone and Thick sounds really interesting. Refusing Compulsory Sexuality is on my TBR as well. It's a subject matter that interests me. Good luck with your reading list. Now you have me wanting to re-watch Bones. 😆

[@EvieM1]

Interesting range of books. ❤️

[@mglarson5936]

Recent fav nonfiction: -What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia -The Serviceberry -Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza (doesn’t come out till January, especially good for leftist Jews but tbh good for anyone to read) -Without Children -Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan

[@cozyinabooknook]

'It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (but Were Never Told)' by Karen Tang is the only book I have planned for so far because I have to keep putting it down. However, I will probably add 'Jesus and John Wayne' and 'Say Nothing' to my tbr now.

[@JessOwens]

It’s Not Hysteria sounds interesting!

[@arianabuchanan6682]

The John Green book is one of my favorites. I revisit some of those essays from time to time. Some of it feels emotional but definitely lighter.

[@JessOwens]

I recently finished and was surprised how much I loved it

[@guess2300]

"Say Nothing" is great as an audiobook. A book that won't make you angry is "Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History" by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell, reads like a mini series and I would love to watch it.

[@IsabelleShae]

Some nonfiction I've enjoyed recently: All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson, The Anthropocene Reviewed, One Nation Under God by Kevin Kruse, Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead, Four Lost Cities by AnnaLee Newitz, and Robin Wall Kimmerer's books Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss

[@thursday48]

I love Matter Bookstore!! I just added Thick to my tbr Also highly recommend the audiobook for the anthropocene reviewed

[@sgriffin9960]

Omg, Say Nothing is fantastic! I hope you read it!

[@ayushamahajan8375]

So excited for this video! I believe I started following you a couple years ago bc of your nonfiction recs

[@kbird6208]

Dahlia Lithwick's Lady Justice is also supposed to be really good but I need to wait a bit on that one.

[@JulieTheReader]

Say Nothing is such a great book. Jesus and John Wayne… Oof. I’m unfamiliar with that one, but it sounds like another important book I can’t bring myself to read right now: Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America by Talia Lavin. I’m working on The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates at the moment. Thick or The Anthropocene Reviewed sounds like a good choice for my TBR.

[@MadoCar-n4s]

❤📚📚📚

[@akossiwak]

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality is very good. At least it resonated with my ace self.

[@throughherpages]

I read Refusing Compulsory Sexuality earlier this year and I loved it! I definitely think it's a good idea to read after Ace. I loved how intersectional it was and just really loved the way it talked about those struggles. As an ace person it really resonated with me

[@tylermoses7304]

While i may not participate in NFN (depends on my mood), here are some of my favorite non-fiction books: Quackery by Lydia Kang (weird and sometimes bad take on medicine in history), Queer Ducks by Eliot Schrefer (queerness in nature ❤), Wild Swans by Jung Chang (generational narrativeof three women's experiencesin 20th century China), White Trash by Nancy Isenberg (using class and whiteness to influence politics), and Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty (this is a forensic anthropologist's work in recovering bodies from genocide)

[@stephanieecklund7148]

We, the Poisoned by Jordan Charlton is the best nonfiction I have read. It reads like a thriller and yes blood pressure will rise

[@Beafree1975]

I'd highly suggest Poison for Breakfast if you like philosophy, it's a short read.

[@theresareads]

I really liked Written in Bone! Read it last year and can’t say it had a super lasting impact on me but I did like it. The “well” from the darkness 💀

[@jasisreading]

Of your stack I read Say Nothing, and I highly recommend! One thing I would suggest: taking notes because PRK packs a lot in those pages. As for my TBR, two memoirs: Coming Home by Brittany Griner and The Woman in Me by Britney Spears.

[@chellyfishing]

Loved Britney’s book, my second-favorite memoir I’ve read recently (after Jennette McCurdy’s). Made me cry!!

[@JessOwens]

Oh I read The Woman in Me!! And I will be ready to take notes for Say Nothing

[@cuppa.books.]

🖤📚

[@tennille9dawn]

The Anthropocene Reviewed is fantastic!

[@kbird6208]

Jesus and John Wayne is excellent but yeah, might need to wait a little. I am in the middle of Attack From Within by Barbara McQuade which i started before the election and don't know if i can finish it rn. But it's good. Say Nothing is also excellent though it's been a while since I read it. I visited Belfast in 2001 and there was a lack of books to read back then but I've been interested ever since.

[@itsmejellydee]

I recommend also reading the audio for Anthropocene Reviewed if you can get it, as there are 1 or 2 essays that are unique between the printed and the audio. I remember one of the audio ones in particular made me glad I went back to listen after reading physically

[@my4hvids]

I do love to add some non-fiction in the mix, usually about 25% of my books. One non-fiction book I've read this year is "Coming of Age in Mississippi" by Anne Moody. I would highly suggest it if you haven't read it. The book about Northern Ireland really interests me. I've just recently found your channel. Thank you! I do have some non-fiction books waiting for me on Audible. I'll choose a couple for my next listens!

[@manic_swens]

Say Nothing is one of the best books I've read this year; very informative but reads like a thriller. Audiobook is the way to go with this one. Disney/FX have made a series based on it that looks good too ... If you need another fascinating non-fiction audiobook, try The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu (and Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts) by Joshua Hammer

[@JessOwens]

I was wondering if the show I saw a preview of was based on Say Nothing the book!

[@manic_swens]

@JessOwens I've watched the first three episodes now and it's quite good, but I would still say read the book first to get a better understanding of everything.

[@becausereadingis]

Every page of Jesus and John Wayne is absolutely infuriating, but absolutely worth the read. Author also did a documentary on evangelical women.

[@RobinReads]

Lolol @ you stating you’re gonna finish Bones. Like there was a choice 🙂 Also I free you of Oathbringer so you can read these

[@chellyfishing]

The NOISE I made when you said “I’m filming this before the election.” Fully understand taking that off the tbr-feels a little like reading about mustard gas from inside a foxhole. Edit: damn forgot to say! I keep borrowing things from the library but ALLEGEDLY I am going to read A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders, which I’ve been highly recommended.

[@TI3RU]

I had no idea about NFN but I've been binging NF recently anyways so that works out for me 😂 As a twin I've been looking more into twin history/culture and have really enjoyed the books How To Be Multiple by Helena de Bres, as well as Twinkind by William Viney. The first goes more into her personal psychology and experience being a twin, overlapped with her philosophy experience as a professor to apply it to the world at large. Twinkind is more the history of twins throughout culture and science, considering the zeitgeist twins take up for better and worse. Idk if non twins will get the same experience out of them but I've really like them so far!

[@reanna187]

Taste my life through food by Stanley Tucci is on my tbr

[@meggamillion2014]

Ive been dying to read Jesus and John Wayne (huge special interested in evangelicals n all) but i am in the same boat as you lol

[@allisonbolt4377]

Jesus and John Wayne is infuriating but excellent, you should definitely read it someday even if not now. Honestly it should be required reading, especially for those who are following these beliefs but dont understand the history behind how they came to be (like, say, everyone at my childhood church).

[@ohladysamantha]

the Anthropocene reviewed is so good! I recommend it on audio. i think john green is better as a nonfiction writer honestly. i'm getting into some memoirs i've had sitting on the shelf - Britney Spears', Jemele Hill's

[@CallMeTippy]

I'm going to read the Ace book, as a resident Black asexual woman it is my duty lol.

[@angelaholmes8888]

Yes here's my tbr My song by harry bellefonte memoir he was a civil rights activist an actor and singer Be my baby by ronnie spector memoir she's a member of the ronettes and was married to phil spector there's plans to make her life into a movie starring zendaya The extraordinary life of an ordinary man by paul Newman memoir i decided to focus on people from the past

[@Marie45610]

I just got 'Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice' *from the Library.

[@balletbookworm]

Just finished *We Will Be Jaguars* by Nemonte Nenquimo which is a memoir by one of the Indigenous women of the Waorani tribe in the Amazon who spearheaded an activist effort to reclaim and protect land stolen from them. They won a landmark court case in Ecuador several years ago. 5 stars. Hard to read in places because of what corporations and white people (and Evangelicals, boo hiss) are doing to the people and the land, but so very well written. (She dictated the book to her husband, who is a white man from California, in Spanish and he translated it from there into English and compared to other translated works, I really didn't feel like he intruded too much into her words as the translator or editor.) Yeah, that "well, it's now after the election" is just....sigh. I should really get *Refusing Compulsory Sexuality* on my TBR

[@availandco]

I’m finishing The Loneliness Files by Athena Dixon and starting Poverty by Matthew Desmond next for this month…. I kinda want one more essay collection but I’m stumped. The Loneliness Files is okay but I feel distant from the subject material because maybe I’m not as lonely as I thought 😂

[@JessOwens]

Oh Poverty was good but made me angry (of course)

[@Gigi-nc4vc]

Just finished Jesus and John Wayne. Luckily I finished before the election. Post-election, the parts that I thought were funny (white men LARP’ing soldiers in some made up war) might not be…… funny anymore

[@CluelessWonder]

I listened to Written in Bone during my lunch breaks and that was a mistake. It made me sad and depressed listening to how horrible people can be. The kid stuff made me upset.

[@JessOwens]

Oh no!!

[@blegghhh]

glad u have refusing compulsory sexuality on ur list! i feel like ace was asexuality 101 and rcs gets more in depth with it!

[@DecemberMagpie]

I didn't realize that this is the last year abookolive is hosting Nonfiction November 🥺. It makes me regret not participating last year as I had planned. I am doing the prompts. Will I read all of these books? Probably not. Code: * She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer * Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector by Amit Katwala * The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers by Tom Standage Path: * Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration by Sara Dykman (read, 3 stars) * Titanic Survivor by Violet Jessop, John Maxtone-Graham Shot (photo): * Edie by George Plimpton, Jean Stein * Thing of Beauty by Stephen Fried * The Curse of Beauty: The ScandalousTragic Life of Audrey Munson, America's First Supermodel by James Bone Join: * Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water by Vicki Valosik (Currently reading) * How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover: What Autism Can Teach Us About Difference, Connection, and Belonging by Jodi Rodgers Another book I read just for fun, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Ten Years of Misadventures in Coffee by Annabel Townsend (4 stars)

[@RobinReads]

Lolol @ you stating you’re gonna finish Bones. Like there was a choice 🙂 Also I free you of Oathbringer so you can read these