What's Your Favourite Weird & Wonderful Nonfiction? |

What's your favourite weird and wonderful nonfiction? I love niche nonfiction that opens your eyes to a whole new topic you'd never explored before. Here are some of our favourite nonfiction book recommendations!
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[@jaidepoppy]

Such a great video idea! So many amazing sounding books 🙌🏻

[@BookBreak]

Thank you!! 😊

[@nikolettapr]

Ok so the one with the colours and definitely the one with Tokyo are definitely included now in my 'to be purchased' list!!!! Emma just a suggestion, would love a video with suggestions for books that have to do with Japan pleaseee!!! ;)

[@DrinkingByMyShelf]

nikolettapr We already did this one! Search our channel for Japan and you’ll find it :)

[@rukminiprabhu2397]

I love weird non fiction! All these books sound great!

[@zuzqaa]

Love the location selection ♥ they have the best Japanese section ever.

[@BookBreak]

Such a gorgeous shop!

[@claireoulton2462]

My most unexpectedly enjoyed recent non-fiction is Anne Glenconner's Lady in Waiting. Gave me an insight into a remarkable life. Perhaps not weird enough for this list but pretty extraordinary.

[@BookBreak]

Oh yes I really need to pick that one up!

[@FaeryLaume]

Those books all sound far more interesting than I thought they would when I started watching this video. LOL. One of my favorite nonfictions that I stumbled on accidentally and adore is Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer. She also wrote Braiding Sweetgrass, which is the book she's most well known for writing.

[@BookBreak]

Ooh I haven't read either of those - will check them out!

[@santanupaul27]

An average book consist of 300 pages. If you read 10 pages per day, It will take 1 month to finish a single book. I don't just read a book, just by reading, I visualize those lines...it takes a lot of concentration, Sometimes I can't concentrate more than 2.5 min... Although I read book after my dinner, in the process sometimes I can't even read 5 pages per night. Currently I'm reading 12 Rules for life, by Jordan B Peterson. This book is very tough to read & grasp but surely one of the best & everyone should read it. So my suggestion is don't just buy book or go crazy like a shopping, buy any book, and finish it....If you closely look at my book and just keep it on the table, you'll notice the little gaps in between pages which evident that those pages were open for quite sometimes. Read book, don't just collect it & keep it as it is.... finish every Pages. I suggest to read non fiction books & classic books.

[@booksandbargains]

I need to stop watching your videos, I have a ridiculous TBR and yet I always add books to my wishlist :P

[@amyy3638]

Just fab!

[@BookBreak]

Glad you liked it!

[@vilstef6988]

Oliver Sacks wrote so many wonderful books. I have never been disappointed by a book by Sacks.

[@BookBreak]

Agreed :)

[@ericamangin1184]

I really enjoyed The Feather Thief which is half natural history and half true crime. And I loved Wilding by Isabella Tree last year, about letting a British farm return to it's natural state.

[@BookBreak]

The Feather Thief sounds so interesting! And yes Wilding

[@moonbook12]

Omg I been in there just couple of weeks ago Daunt Books

[@moonbook12]

Will My Cats Eat My Eyeblows my weird non fiction

[@BookBreak]

hahah wow that does sound strange!

[@moonbook12]

@@BookBreak yay beening the fact that I'm not form the UK and for the book highly recommend the aduio it nerred by the aouthr (maybe you should do a video of books that nerred by the aouthr)

[@nicholasoulton8489]

Ok - new favourite non fiction book: Sextant by David Barrie. Great if you are planning to cross an Ocean any time soon...

[@BookBreak]

Haha how many times have you read it now?!

[@nicholasoulton8489]

@@BookBreak Three times so far... and counting.

[@sarahevans8610]

Non fiction can indeed open up wonderful new areas - and without all the emotional angst on fiction! I have just read Threads of Life by Clare Hunter - a history of the world through stitches. Brilliant!

[@BookBreak]

Oh wow! What a weird and fascinating topic - perfect for this list!

[@inessamaria2428]

The Map of Knowledge by Violet Moller should be a very interesting book.

[@BookBreak]

Sure is!

[@christianwalsh9164]

my TBR is way too long and it’s getting LONGER AND LONGER as I’m binge-watching your videos

[@BookBreak]

Oops!

[@laurafinocchiarostudios]

The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen talks about Earth’s 5 mass extinctions. Fascinating!!

[@BookBreak]

Ooooh sounds scary!

[@danecobain]

I wouldn't say it's weird and wonderful but I'm currently reading a non-fiction book called The Breakdown by Tatton Spiller which is about how society is divided and stuff, it's quite good so far!

[@BookBreak]

Ooh that sounds fascinating

[@danecobain]

@@BookBreakI finished it and gave it a 4.5/5!

[@DragonHeart29]

Orange the fruit came first because it is originally an Arabic word for the fruit, while the word for the orange colour in Arabic is different.