Title: How to Read Nonfiction like a Professor  Author: Thomas C. Foster Published: 26th May 2020, HarperCollins Au Status: Read November 2025 ++++++++ My Thoughts: “Caveat lector. Let the rea…

Title: You Went to Emergency For What?: Bizarre, bloody and baffling true stories from the hospital ED Author: Tim Booth Published: 29th July 2025, PanMacmillan  Status: Read October 2025 ++++++++ …

Dates: 11/3-11/9Host: Frances at Volatile RuneTitle: Choosing NonfictionThere are many topics to choose from when looking for a nonfiction book.  For example:  Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, Tra…

I always love participating in Nonfiction November, because I get so many good book recommendations from the other bloggers.  The first week's topic is "celebrate your year of nonfiction" and is hosted by Based on a True Story. What books have you read? What were your favorites? Have you had a favorite topic? Is there a topic you want to read about more?

Title: Subpar Planet: The World’s Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors Author: Amber Share Published: 1st October 2024, Plume Read: October 2025 xxxxxx My Thoughts: …

Dates: 10/27-11/2  Host: Heather @ Based on a True StoryTitle: Your Year in NonfictionCelebrate your year of nonfiction. What books have you read? What were your favorites? Have…

Click the cover to learn more at Goodreads. The Walkley Awards Longlist Winner announced 27th November 2025 The National Book Awards for Non-Fiction 2025 Winner announced 19th November 2025 Have yo…

We're in the home stretch on reading challenges, so here's an update on where I am. I still have a lot to read in three months, but I would like to close these out. If you're working on any of these challenges, I'd love to hear what you have left or what you're struggling with. Two of these challenges have Goodreads groups if you're looking for ideas.

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction ShortlistWinner to be announced December 4th The Wolfson History PrizeWinner to be announced in December 2nd The HWA Non-Fiction Awards LonglistWinner will…

Welcome to the Monthly Spotlight for the 2025 Nonfiction Reader Challenge! Each month I highlight some of the reviews shared for the challenge in the linky Don’t forget to link each book you r…

This book came along at just the right time for me, and was exactly what I needed. I've been struggling with my Jewish identity since the events of October 7, 2023 and since my father's passing in December 2024. I hate what Israel is doing in Gaza, but I'm terrified of the growing antisemitism towards Jews and Israel, and the ways in which the Trump administration are using and aggravating those biases.

Title: Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work Author: Allison Tyra Published: 6th May 2025, Rising Action Status: Read September 2025 courtesy Rising Action/Netgalley …

Still looking for something to satisfy a challenge category? Perhaps something from this selection of new nonfiction titles will pique your interest and motivate you to complete your challenge! {Cl…

As part of my mission to read a wide array of memoirs by the end of the year I borrowed a copy of Maria Elena Salinas’s 2006 memoir I Am My Father’s Daughter: Living a Life Without Secrets. A…

Eager to read more about World War I, especially its origins I purchased an ebook of Margaret MacMillan’s 2013 highly acclaimed The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914. After thoroughly en…

We're halfway through 2025, and what a year it's been so far! I'd be happy if it stopped. That said, with the extra time I've had on my hands, I'm looking good for challenges. But I can use a little help with some of the reading prompts, so I'd love to hear any recommendations. These can be books published at any time, not necessarily this year.

This is a difficult book to review, as it was at times difficult to read, so in this review I want to let Alyan's words speak for themselves. Alyan, a Palestinian poet and novelist (she wrote The Arsonists' City, which I highly recommend), has written a memoir about her own history as well as her parents and grandparents. It's about her childhood childhood moving from Kuwait to Beirut to America.

This year, 20 Books of Summer has new hosts (thanks Cathy for your years of hosting) and I decided to join in. The challenge is simply to make a list of books you plan to read between June and August and share your progress - no other rules, and titles on the list can be replaced throughout the summer. I know that TBR lists add pressure to what we read, which sometimes isn't helpful.

This book is a detailed history of reality television, and Nussbaum begins the book by explaining that if you think reality television is a product of the 2000s, you'd be wrong. Reality television is as old as television itself, and is constantly redefining itself. This book came highly recommended by the New York Times last year, but I was inspired to pick it up because of Allison Cochrun's novel, …

Welcome to the Monthly Spotlight for the 2025 Nonfiction Reader Challenge! Each month I highlight some of the reviews shared for the challenge in the linky Don’t forget to link each book you r…

About the Book For almost five decades after the Second World War, Europe was divided by the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. The Iron Curtain, a near-impenetrable barrier of wire …

About the Book For almost five decades after the Second World War, Europe was divided by the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. The Iron Curtain, a near-impenetrable barrier of wire …

This was an incredibly thoughtful, comprehensive view of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, beginning with the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling banning segregated schools, to the passage of the Voting Rights Act and the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. It's a different look at the civil rights movement from what we're used to. We're familiar with MLK, Rosa Parks, John Lewis and LBJ.

About the Book For almost five decades after the Second World War, Europe was divided by the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. The Iron Curtain, a near-impenetrable barrier of wire …