I’m on the lookout for more books to add to my TBR pile (and then probably ignore for three years…) - hit me up with non-fiction recs? What’s your favourite non-fiction book? One you’ve re-read multiple times, one that’s stuck with you or had a big influence on you? Any topic! #BookRecs#NonFiction
Some recent ones I’ve read and enjoyed are tunnel 29 by Helena Merriman, Killing Thatcher by Rory Carroll (and if that gets you into Northern Irish history then there’s also Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe) Somebody Told Me by Danny Wallace and Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s invisible life by Anna Funder
I don’t read a lot of non fiction but ‘watching the English’ by Kate Fox is something I read as a student that was truly enjoyable and I have come back to several times. ‘All that remains’ by Sue Black is also good but definitely not for everyone :)
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526144164/ This has been my favourite book in quite sometime, examining why it is so difficult to get equality in the cultural sector.
Culture is bad for you - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Culture is bad for you by Orian Brook
Seeing Like a State by James Scott yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien...
About the only non-fiction I read at the moment are biographies/memoirs. If you want recs of those, I'm more than happy to share, but really, it's just people I like and want to read about. 🙂 I'm here when you get your random fiction itch.
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Raceless by Georgina Lawton is an amazing memoir, with some exposition of racial identity and colourism too.
Every chance you've already read these, but: Bad Blood by John Carreyrou The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot We Keep The Dead Close by Becky Cooper People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry Currently reading Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe and really liking it.
Of recent(ish) ones: LOVED both Penn Vogler books, Stuffed and Scoff. Murder: The Biography by Kate Morgan. Pop history ones Unruly by David Mitchell (get the audiobook!) and At Home by Bill Bryson. Show Me the Bodies, Peter Apps (MASSIVE trauma cw though!)