nonfiction books that changed my life

[@-rianna]

omg is this what it feels like when your deadbeat dad comes back.....kidding, kidding WELCOME BACK BOOKTUBE KING

[@cs0p]

HAHAHA I LOVE MY FANS

[@matthews832]

The horns sprouting from your head, the chaotic room in the background, the fact nonfiction changed your life... all signs that it was too early to release you from the mental hospital Charles.

[@cs0p]

no I think you might be right

[@suuuregulus]

Your hair kind of made devil’s horns on your head and i now wonder if it’s a sign or a hidden meaning. Or both, perhaps

[@cs0p]

you're making good points

[@emmamoon7756]

you got me with the thumbnail I thought for a second you were going down some really weird paths 😭

[@-rianna]

Oh how I missed getting insulted by Charles not even 2 seconds into the video

[@cs0p]

oh shut up doggie

[@5spells]

im so glad charles did not mention ANY of the books on the thumbnail (i was genuinely scared)

[@cs0p]

wym ? i do

[@asiyafazil4348]

I just accepted that my parasocial relationship with you finally came to an end yet here we are

[@LizzylovesLobo]

literally im like wheres my childhood best friend i picked apples in papa's orchard with

[@cs0p]

we're in an avoidant attachment abusive parasocial relationship get with it baby

[@soymikleo]

spring has truly begun with the comeback king

[@cs0p]

yea nbd haha coming to eat booktube up

[@dianaisme]

The KZbinr apology vibes for a few seconds killed me🤣

[@cs0p]

😸

[@maricarlabarreto]

So glad you're back, darling!

[@cs0p]

it's good to see you here baby

[@fara2321]

You scared mee..... DO IT AGAIN! (Welcome back)

[@cs0p]

lol welcome back to you too

[@earthjay]

The thumbnail really scared me 😭😭 (Welcome back Charles we missed you!!!

[@nyahreads]

first few seconds gave the vibe of a disgraced politician trying to make a comeback (welcome back from retirement 😍)

[@cs0p]

and comeback i have 😏

[@oumaimalem8185]

Empire of pain is a DELICIOUS book , it does feel like a thriller, and it feels like having a friend telling you all the nasty secrets of another's friend family that you don't know but you know enough about to be soooooo into the drama ,it's really gossipy but in a GOOD way. Plus it's just a good book to get in the mind of the "my goal in this life is to save humanity " type of scientists/entrepreneurs/CEOs of big companies etc. The amount of time I gasped is ridiculous. Can't recommend it enough,especially as an audio book because it's read by Patrick Keefe himself which adds the gossipy element to it .

[@cs0p]

it really is gossipy in the best way possible. It's crazy how much they get away with over the years

[@VivianRodrigues-iv5kf]

best notification i've ever got in years omg i thought u were dead at some point

[@Wout.vlmnck]

I was worried he was in a car accident or something. 😫

[@VivianRodrigues-iv5kf]

@@Wout.vlmnck fr my mind was running WILD lmaooo. he was gone for way too long

[@cs0p]

i would never die without posting something truly obscene first

[@maddylovesbooks]

DAD CAME BACK WITH THE MILK

[@rurubelle2920]

Thank you for coming back, Father. ❤❤❤

[@kiranreader]

so happy you are in your non-fiction era - its life changing

[@cs0p]

i love facts

[@deepolo]

Ohmygod, you are alive. Good to see you back

[@hamdia2259]

i miss u 😿

[@nna_oj]

love that you didn't mention a single book in the thumbnail. thank god because the ones you do mention are better ;) also very glad to see you back on yt delivering us banger book recs 😎

[@natalieelizabeth9052]

The fans love to see it - welcome back King Charles IV, you dawg

[@janchriztiandavid1480]

OMG! King is backkkkk! ✨✨ luv from Ph 🇵🇭

[@cs0p]

hey Philippines ;)

[@annatk8027]

WELCOME BACK KING

[@cs0p]

thank you baby

[@anamariavakili1450]

I was contemplating to peek up "The Lucifer effect "for a long time thank you for your review, you saved me precious time!

[@emmasuzanne8685]

I was legit wondering where u went this afternoon and now this pops up, blessings in early april❤

[@cs0p]

i was reading your mind....

[@anna5224]

THE RETURN OF THE KING

[@puppy2haley]

Welcome back young man. Glad to see you are AOK. You are missed! 🤜🏼🤛🏼❤

[@cs0p]

aww thank you

[@yoyoyoyoyoyo]

hunted down this video for a second watch post reading Moonwalking with Einstein and absolutely loving it. ty for the reccs, you gem! imma try and get through the others too

[@zissou4978]

I MISSED YOU A LITTLE TOO MUCH 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲 Welcome back 🙏

[@Wout.vlmnck]

Ikr?! I was starting to feel so sad. I thought something bad might have happened to him. 😩

[@zissou4978]

@@Wout.vlmnck Girl, same!

[@cs0p]

no such thing as missing a superstar too much ;)

[@zissou4978]

@@cs0p hehe, yessir! (also, you replied, my day is made and I'm wearing the biggest Cheshire-grin rn)

[@eitherorbooks]

Charles, your adoring fans missed you. After a series of sad DNFs I'm reading The Dutch House per your recommendation and loving it. My favorite nonfiction book is probably The Gentrification of the Mind if you need more to add to your pile.

[@cs0p]

!!! i am happy to hear youre loving the dutch house. my interest is thoroughly piqued with G of the mind.. I love the brownstones on the cover

[@Courtney6]

Opened KZbin and your face was front and center. Thought I was hallucinating. Glad to see you’ve returned in one piece with a dog fetish.

[@BookLover19]

So happy to have you back 🤍

[@mattthepageturner9128]

i was struggling, down and out, at my lowest possible rock bottom….but then like a thief in the night mr csop swooped in and posted a new video and i was finally saved from the trenches

[@AnUncreativePerson]

We miss you Charles. Please make another video soon

[@robotdowney]

Bestie, sister, welcome back!

[@emmasuzanne8685]

Love the branding in the tumbnail

[@emilia7339]

YOU'RE BACK

[@cs0p]

yea 😌

[@saraloveslfc]

YOU’RE ALIVE 🎉

[@roderina]

Bro I was thinking about you literally a few days ago, wondering if you were okay and will drop a vid soon !! Will watch a bit later

[@cs0p]

i hope you enjoy...

[@nancyleakritchardson193]

Glad you’re back.

[@janehex]

The memory book sounds really interesting. I had always understood that "human" memory retention was tied to language -- which could be why our oldest memories only reach back to the time when we began to understand speech and speak ourselves, because we catalog objects and places in our world using words. My oldest memory, which is really just a few seconds of walking from one room to another through a beaded curtain, is from when I was about two, and starting to use language.

[@cs0p]

innnnnteresting. I went through an arguably current phase of interest in how language influences thought re: the sapir whorf hypothesis and orwells 1984

[@thomase5772]

this might be a bit of an assault on your happiness but Killing Hope by William Blum is one of those nonfiction books that forever change how you see the world. I highly recommend it.

[@keira4434]

the lizzie borden one seems really cool!! something i've read that sounds similar is ‘the minds of billy milligan’. it's really interesting, u might enjoy it! (so happy you're back, lots of love 🫶🏻)

[@cs0p]

i will check out billy thank u 👀

[@Nico-lk5hb]

I’m SO happy you’re back 🎉🎉🎉

[@cs0p]

im happy youre here

[@CorvusCorvidae777]

Getting scolded by Charles means I can sleep easy again.

[@charlottejruthauthor]

our favorite booktube baddie

[@nicholasjohnson5944]

He hath returned!!!!! 🎉 This is most lovely, as nonfiction is not one of my go-to picks... yet, the Lizzie Borden book, the Sackler book and the Edward Gorey book are now on my to-buy list!!! Mucho thanks to you!! May your week be a delightfully fun one: Keep healthy, smile, have a BLAST and until next time, phenomenal Mr. Charles!!!!! 😀 🎉

[@cs0p]

enjoy the books!!

[@lachlangriffiths9434]

Yes Charles is still here! Literally gasped when I saw this

[@janehex]

what an absolute TREAT to wake up to this

[@cs0p]

im glad to hear 🫣🫶

[@ajiyasajjad3032]

Lie whatever!! but please don't disappear ever 😂❤

[@cs0p]

superstars can never disappear

[@exactlyexactly]

Yooo i havent watched the video yet but thank you for posting again!! I missed you fr i thought you quit yt or something

[@cs0p]

baby being a superstar is for life

[@exactlyexactly]

@@cs0p i thought you died, then

[@cs0p]

@@exactlyexactly HAHAH

[@Jay92925]

return of the facial expression king

[@janetgolden9053]

Welcome back! Missed seeing your videos and I must say, you would sound good as a Brooklyn boy. As someone who is from there who , when they say, Uba instead of Uber or ova, instead of over, you dawg, would fit right in. Can't wait to see what you got coming up!

[@katt_ventura]

I missed you so much 🥺❤

[@cs0p]

i missed YOU MORE

[@VivianRodrigues-iv5kf]

U ALIVE OMG OMG OMG

[@cs0p]

youre going to need to lower your voice please

[@lozinthestacks]

Yes Empire of Pain! My first read of the year and it’s FANTASTIC.

[@lozinthestacks]

Would recommend Say Nothing highly! It’s equally great.

[@ronancolouredfunk]

would recommend some rebecca solnit for a good non-fiction hit!! check out a field guide to getting lost, recollections of my non existence, or wanderlust. they all take a historical approach with actually engaging anecdotes

[@eliseoc]

omg i read say nothing and empire of pain last year patrick radden keefe is just phenomenal i have to force myself not to bring up things i remember from his books in every convo 😭

[@charlieiscorrect2856]

Your back yayy

[@cs0p]

[@exteriorarchives]

u inspired me to make a youtube video of myself talking about books. thats how long u were GONE FOR. welcome back

[@cs0p]

shut up i am so flattered...im wishing you superstardom and sexiness.

[@Wout.vlmnck]

I just ordered the book about Lizzie Borden. Thanks for recommending it. I have heard of her, but have never read up on the case. Question. Did you enjoy reading 'The bell jar' by Sylvia Plath? I'm reading the biography of Assia Wevill, 'Lover of unreason'. Wevill was a poet herself and was the woman Ted Hughes had an affair with while still married to Plath (she was actually pregnant of his child at the time of Plath's suicide). Wevill and Hughes had a daughter together, but 6 years after Plath had died, Wevill killed her daughter and committed suicide. It's a very tragic and moving story, if you're into literary biographies. Also ordered 'Down among the women', that's supposed to be a sassy and dark novel by Fay Weldon (published in or around 1970), that follows a group of women who are having liaisons, marry, divorce, sometimes die,... You might enjoy that one of you enjoyed 'Valley of the dolls'... I'm really happy to have you back and that you're alright.

[@cs0p]

i loved the bell jar...i shall look into Fay

[@oof7882]

well since you asked, I'm reading The artist's way by Julia Cameron and I'm only like 40 pages in but it's already got some very useful stuff.

[@kristanicole8123]

Ive been really into music biographies lately-- Chronicles by Bob Dylan is good, but some of it can only truly be understood when youre older I feel? Very well written though. Also Joan Baez's And A Voice To Sing With is a beautiful portrait of a sensitive girl with a haunting voice becoming both a folk singer and activist. Just Kids by Patti Smith is the ultimate music biography--a MUST READ! but it is very similar to fiction, not sciency

[@yeahsydney]

thank god like I missed you

[@sjohnson97]

Charles you had me worried sick

[@zeelarchv]

where are you bestie? we miss you

[@jenna1739]

I needed background sound so I started seeking out your channel to put a video on and soon realized that I must of followed your channel on my old phone with my old email. Frantically searched "Charles KZbinr" with various video concepts that I remembered (Agatha Christie, wuthering heights) and finally found you🤘

[@luna-xs2kn]

charles im so glad you're back king but please stop saying dawgy

[@cs0p]

HAHA H ITS DOGGIE. NOW BE QUIET.

[@jackthemlits]

Oh i love the yt algorithm for recommending me to you

[@cs0p]

YT is doing gods work sending new loyal fans my way

[@rushingstreet]

those aren't horns.....they're antlers and they make him look like a cute woodland creature

[@HalfBloodOtter]

We miss your videosss

[@Jan_1212]

OMG Where have you been??? Anyway, welcome back CHARLES🎉❤

[@ajiyasajjad3032]

FINALLLLLYYYYYYYYYY❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@cs0p]

;))))

[@illchangemyusernamewhenith9130]

Watching this during the eclipse, I'm much more interested in this than burning my retinas

[@illchangemyusernamewhenith9130]

Also I saw the title and thumbnail and immediately smelled bullsh*t

[@Wout.vlmnck]

So happy we have our boyfriend back. 🐕🐕🐕

[@rlarsen52]

Your comment on memory triggered my own memory of a Jesuit missionary, Matteo Ricci. Here's a blurb: "In 1596 the Italian Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci wrote the “Treatise on Mnemonic Arts,” a short book on memory recall, while posted in China as a missionary. Ricci’s memory device was called a memory palace, and it helped improve one’s memory. To aid in the recall of important facts and knowledge, Ricci outlined a system of assigning visual images to concepts and then “placing” the image in a memory palace." I found it interesting, although I couldn't remember the guy's name and had to look for it!! As a retired teacher of English and history, I love your videos.

[@cs0p]

i think he may have been the originator of the memory palace--im pretty sure Moonwalking mentions him but i cant remember

[@absv444]

Ngl you really got my ass with atomic habits in the thumbnail

[@kallannnn]

The way i stopped everything to watch this video

[@cs0p]

as. you. should.

[@Wout.vlmnck]

You might also enjoy reading "The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & why We Need to Talk about it' by Alice Procter from 2020. Okay now I'll leave you to it before you report me for stalking.

[@markmcgrath4121]

Say Nothing is INCREDIBLE.

[@cs0p]

i cant wait to read it

[@puppy2haley]

Where are you now????? Lot’s are missing you. Maybe studying for school finals 🤫🤫. Hope to see you soon. 🤗❤️

[@gs08302]

The scream I scrumpt when I saw this notification!!

[@cs0p]

[@EddieMM]

The thumbnail scared me.

[@danielkane8783]

If you like the humor of Lemony Snicket and Neil Gaimen, you might enjoy The Magnetic Fields. (Stephin Merritt writes the songs for Daniel Handler's audiobooks, and did the music for Gaimen's --very dark-- Broadway musical adaptation of Coraline.) A great collection if you're interested in Gorey as a subject is his collection of interviews titled "Ascending Peculiarity". I highly rec it if you ever come across it in a used bookstore. You really get a sense of how funny and knowledgeable he was! Now if they'll just finish that documentary already.

[@cs0p]

i just bought Ascending P per your rec! looking forward to it a bunch thank u

[@danielkane8783]

@@cs0p oh cool! hope i didn’t oversell it. from my memory it’s mostly him proselytizing about Balanchine and Shikibu. But I think you get something of his essence from it, even if he repeats himself a tad on the cat, ballet, literature front. (I finished it wishing there were more interviews.)

[@becaedd]

Edward Gorey is my 2024 calendar... starting off with yet again another 100 read. Are you my fav booktuber?

[@rosaesu]

please come back

[@katesto9841]

OH MY GAWDDD I bet this is how the apostles felt when Jesus resurrected. Welcome back King

[@cs0p]

you're my apostle.

[@xxzzz7467]

you have graced the earth again by spanning out of heaven ( or wherever you've been)

[@brandedfishball]

I MISSED YOU POOKIE

[@caitlinjohnson8404]

omg I just read hidden valley road and empire of pain are we twinning

[@AnUncreativePerson]

Now i really want to get into nonfiction

[@gpeaches]

OMG Daddy's home!

[@cs0p]

😏

[@theowarner]

I missed your videos!

[@cs0p]

i missed you.

[@theowarner]

@@cs0p Now I'm saying "you dumb doggy" every few minutes.

[@entrenchpodhost]

So ur going to Bridge Camp I see.

[@cs0p]

the real question is are you? ;)

[@deardiaryakatheinternet]

the way i commented about you being missing like 2 months ago and you responded this weekend and now you’ve posted…

[@cs0p]

i do it all for you doggie.

[@deardiaryakatheinternet]

@@cs0p oh dawggie, i know

[@5spells]

king, are you gonna disappear on us again 😟

[@kathleena4038]

A far better book about schizophrenia, from a personal perspective, is The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions . I think you would like it a lot.

[@cs0p]

ive been meaning to pick that up!! i was waiting until it came out in paperback and now it has and i still havent gotten around to checking it out but this was a good reminder haha

[@kate.d024]

we missed you, you little freak.

[@cs0p]

no youre a freak!!

[@kate.d024]

@@cs0p bitch clearly, I’m watching your videos🤪

[@oumaimalem8185]

Daaawgyyyy , i missed you 😢😮❤😂

[@cs0p]

GOOD DOGGIE