I can’t believe that we’re already in the final week of Non-Fiction November! I’ve really enjoyed taking part this year and have not only read some fabulous books but I’ve discovered some brilliant-sounding books recommended by other bloggers. So, as part of today’s Non-Fiction November prompt from Rennie from What’s Nonfiction I’m sharing some of the books I’ve added to my To Be Read stack!
I discovered Dope Sick by Beth Macy on Deb aka Curly Geek’s blog and found her review so compelling that I not only bought a copy of the book but I’m reading it now. It’s not an easy read because of the subject matter but it’s such a fascinating book. I also spotted The Library Book by Susan Orlean in the same post and have added this book to my wish list and plan to get hold of this one soon as it sounds really good.
On a similar theme, I read a brilliant review of The Outrun by Amy Liptrot on WhatCathyReadNext’s blog this week so I’m definitely going to be adding this book to my TBR. I find books about addiction and recovery really interesting and helpful so I’m keen to get to this one.
During the first week of Non-Fiction November I enjoyed reading Karen at Booker Talk’s post about her favourite non-fiction and saw she recommended The Salt Path by Raynor Winn. It sounded like such a good read so I decided to buy the audio book and hope to listen to this one soon.
Over on Liz at LibroFullTime’s blog I’ve enjoyed a couple of posts. One was where she paired Bernadine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other with Lovers and Strangers by Clair Wills. I’m hoping to read the former very soon so am really interested to get hold of a copy of the latter to read alongside it. I also really enjoyed her Be the Expert / Become the Expert post. I’ve bought a copy of Bird Therapy by Joe Harkness as it sounds like a calming read, and I’ve added Names for the Sea by Sarah Moss to my wish list along with the other books about Iceland mentioned as I’m intrigued to know more.
I love reading reviews at What’s Nonfiction and it was here that I discovered that Susannah Cahalan had written another book (I loved her previous book Brain on Fire). The great Pretender sounds like my kind of book as I’m always so interested in reading about illness and diagnosis so I’ve added this one to my wish list and plan to read it soon.
On SpiritBlog’s Year in Nonfiction post I spotted a book called Bringing Columbia Home by Michael D. Leinbach and Jonathan H. Ward and I immediately looked it up. It’s about the space shuttle Columbia and as I’ve been fascinated by space ever since I was a small child I had to put this book on my wish list.
Also on the subject of space travel I was reminded by NeverEnoughNovels’ blog of The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe, which is on my TBR but I’ve never made the time to read it. I also discovered Rocket Men by Robert Kurson on this blog, it’s a book that I’ve never heard of before but it sounds like my kind of read so it’s on my wish list.
On Bookish Beck’s blog I read a great review of Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper, a book that was already on my radar and alongside this review was a review of Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah, which is in a similar vein looking at what it is to leave religion and make a new life. Both of these books are on my wish list and I hope to get to them very soon.
In the week we did Book Pairings as a prompt you may recall that I recommended Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer alongside Dead Mountain by Donnie Eichar so it was great to discover on MusingsOfALiteraryWanderer’s blog recommendations for these two books along with two more: The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger and The Ledge by Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughan. I’ve added both to my wish list and hope to get to read them soon.
UnrulyReader shared a post on Being an Expert on home organisation, which I loved reading. I second her recommendation of Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying! I discovered a few more organising books that I hadn’t heard of before so have made a note of the titles. I’m particularly interested in Good Housekeeping’s Simple Organising Wisdom.
I found HappiestWhenReading’s blog post about the best books on grief. I also recommended Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman in one of my Non-Fiction November posts but I discovered a few new-to-me books in this post. The one that most stood out to me is After This, and Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief both by Claire Bidwell-Smith so I’ve added both of these to my wish list and intend to buy them very soon.
Over on BookdOut blog a post about becoming an expert caught my attention. In the post is a selection of books about Australian true crime featuring female perpetrators and I actually can’t name just one book from this post as I’ve actually added all the books to my wish list! I can’t help but be intrigued about crime and what makes people do the things they do so I’m keen to read these books.
In another post written that week is one about books about the Royal Family over on Hopewell’s Library of Life’s blog. Again this is a post where I can’t really choose a single book as all of them look fascinating and I’ve made a note of all of the titles!
So all in all it’s been a bumper Non-Fiction November for me as I’ve found loads of new books to add to my TBR. Have you added any books to your TBR stacks during Non-Fiction November? I hope you’ve discovered some fab new books, I’d love to hear about them. 🙂
RatherTooFondofBooks 
Very keen to read The Salt Path! 😀
I wish I hadn’t already posted my list, you have too many good ones here!! I keep going back and forth about The Salt Path, I read two excellent reviews of it in this month’s posts and I’ve loved the quotes I’ve read from it, but I’m just hesitating because it seems like it could be a tough topic to confront and think about. I’ll be looking forward to your review of it
Unfollow was really interesting and I loved Leaving the Witness, it’s one of my favorites of the year. Dopesick was incredible, such an important book. I’m glad I could give you The Great Pretender, excited to hear what you think of it! And I absolutely love reading your reviews too, was so happy to find your blog. Thanks for all your wonderful posts taking part this month!!
I can reassure you about the Salt Path. Although the reason why this couple ended up walking the path are distressing and they do have a tough time, Raynor Winn has a great sense of humour which comes through a lot. Plus she describes the scenery and the magical moments they have in nature brilliantly. And of course it does end up happily…
That’s so good to know, thank you!! It really seems worth reading.
You have some excellent choices here, Hayley. And what I notice is how many of them are recommendations you got from other blogs. That’s one thing I love about being in the community of readers – I always learn about great new books.
Thanks for the link, and I hope you like Dopesick and The Library Book! Dopesick is a tough read, but I think an important one, since addiction is so prevalent. Nonfiction November has been great! I’ve added Marie Kondo to my list as well.
Very interesting list! The Right Stuff is so good–a lifetime favorite of mine. The Perfect Storm is great as well–happily, the movies of both books do them justice. Names of the Sea was interesting as well. I look forward to your reviews of a few of these to decide if I will read them.
The Ledge was such a harrowing story – I hope you enjoy it!
What a great post and thank you for the rather massive shout-out there. I love that I’ve helped you find some great new books. My post will be up tomorrow – unfortunately I managed not to note down where I saw all the books I fancied – must do better next year!
I haven’t added any new Non-Fiction books but its also SciFi Month so I’ve added a ton of SciFi books 😀 I hope you enjoy all of these!!
I love all of these, Hayley. I want to add a bunch. I loved The Great Pretender!
I hope you enjoy the books you added to your list from my expert post. I added a few from you too, so thank you.
Please stop by to see my NonFicNov: New to My TBR + Wrap Up
Wow, you are going to be busy reading these but also extremely well informed. I’m so glad you are interested in reading The Salt Path – it’s been one of the highlights of the year for me. Thanks for the shout out!