Women’s (Prize for) Non-Fiction | June 2023
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- The @WomensPrizeforFiction have excitingly announced a new sister prize for nonfiction. I thought I would have a chat about the news and share some of my favourite nonfiction books by women. Ooh and there’s a special apt give away too. #readingrecommendations #books #booktube
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PS - I agree with you re holding the Women’s Non-Fiction Prize at a different time of the year to the Fiction one - spread the joy of reading throughout the year 📖 😌
It makes sense to me but I think it might be about costs.
I loved Lucy Worley’s ‘Agatha Christie’ but think you may have already read it 🤷🏼♀️. I agree women’s prize non fiction would be better in the Autumn, toooo many books to read at once otherwise. Glad you loved Hay! X
I haven’t read the Worsley’s Agatha. I’ve been waiting for that to come out in paperback and then I will definitely be getting to it. I love Lucy on the telly, haven’t read any of her books madly.
Hello Simon, lovely to see "Maud" again 😂😊
My non-fiction recommendations are Written in Bone and All That Remains by Professor Dame Sue Black. She is a Scottish, world-renowned forensic anthropologist who writes about death and dying in a fascinating, compassionate, sensitive way - with a dash of humour. ❤
Hahaha. That was so funny about Maud. How spooky. I would like to try Sue Black, I weirdly quite like books about death. Especially with a dash of humour.
As I was watching this video I was getting ready to suggest Georgia Pritchett’s book to you…and then it was in the video! I read it recently and loved it so much. So glad you enjoyed it too!
ZOMG. I thought it was brilliant.
Hi, Simon. One of my favorite non-fiction books is “Know My Name” by Chanel Miller. Does memoir count? So important and powerful. I’m going to throw in another one I just finished that everyone would get something from and that is, “Monsters” by Claire Dederer.
I’ve had Know My Name on my shelves for ages as I know Mercedes thought it was brilliant. I am going to have to get to it at some point. Monsters I have high up on my TBR.
I’d recommend Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell. It’s sooo good!
Ha. I love the title.
I recently finished Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, which if you haven't read you may like. If I remember rightly, you enjoyed the nature writing in The Island of Missing Trees, and Braiding Sweetgrass is a collection of essays that has helped me look at our relationship with nature in new ways.
Ooooh I saw Leena read that and that made me super interested. So it’s one that I’ve had my eyes on.
@@SavidgeReads @Docleaf13 you both may enjoy hearing Robin speak on Alie Ward's podcast Ologies - her episode is called Bryology and she speaks about the topic of another of her books, moss. She brings this miniature world to life, it's almost faIry-tale-esque. She exudes passion & care and it was super uplifting. Highly recommend!
As a person who hardly ever reads non-fiction, I still have to recommend "The Lonely City" by Olivia Laing.
A compelling look at loneliness and how artists managed to illustrate and transcend it.
Yes, I would love to read this. I’ve read her fiction Crudo and Funny Weather so keen to read more.
Love that the WP is branching out into nonfiction but share your surprise that the two prizes will run at the same time. I would have thought they would have separated them the way the Booker does for International and English fiction. Ah well. Love seeing editing Simon drop in! And these are PHENOMENAL titles! Here are some favorite nonfiction titles by women that I think you might love: World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukamatathil, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayetu Moore and H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, which you may have already read and which may be my all-time favorite work of nonfiction.
Ooooh I have read H is for Hawk and loved it. Must read Vesper Flights. World of Wonders I shall look up. Wayetu Moore’s I have on my shelf. I really liked her novel.
an incredible list from your readers and you, this will take me a year to read the books i picked from you and them. thank you
A pleasure. Hope you find lots of fabulous books.
I loved “The Trauma Cleaner”and the associated documentary and Podcasts here in Oz about Sandra Pankhurst. What a fascinating, strong and inspirational human being who overcame tremendous trauma herself. The title of the book could be a brilliant play on words too!Phenomenal for sure! Cheers Simon, Barbara
A pleasure. Thanks for watching.
Hi Simon . Looking forward to this vlog. Thank you and yes, I am excited about this new prize too.Gosh both running together now that does sound too many books for anyone to really handle and appreciate.
I love non fiction and one of my favorites is Rebecca Skloot’s,
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. …..I got interrupted so many times while watching this …….. you reminded me that I wanted to read The Five.
Ooooh I should have included The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Whoops.
I’m not to sure if you’ve read this already, but my book club recently read Invisible Women by Caroline Creado Pérez and if you haven’t I think you’d LOVE it. It describes how the Male Default has led to women have been excluded from data we collect which is like a MASSIVE oversight for being ~50% of people with like A MILLION real world examples and cites. Biggest critique to gain I think would be a little more nod to intersectionality and gender which, which I feel is a logical next step, but giving the author the benefit of the doubt that that’s not her research area, it’s a lot of good information and a compelling essay. Not the pinnacle of all gender conversation, but gives tools to understand how unconscious bias happens, can discovered using data, and how people/governments can act on that new data to better serve that missing ~50% (and, for folks with larger scope of social issues on the docket than just a retort that sits within the confines of the historical binary, a good set of examples to aka into other gender/minority conversational contexts)
Interested to hear thoughts and critiques on that one too
Ooooh data, interesting. Doesn’t do masses for me data but I’m always interested in how we can make everything fairer and more balanced.
so many of my favourites here, Simon! In the Dream House still stands as my favourite book of all time, I throw it into the hands of everyone I can. great to see I am an Island included on this list too, incredible writing.
I’d recommend When the Dust Settles by Lucy Easthope, really reminiscent of The Trauma Cleaner. also The Outrun by Amy Liptrot 💖
Oooh I loved The Outrun too. That almost made the list. Sounds like I would like When The Dust Settles so I shall look that up. Thank you.
I only started reading non fiction about 2 years ago and although I have to be in the right mood I really do enjoy it.
One you may be interested in is Lulu Millers Why Fish Don't Exist. I am not a fan of fishing at all but found the story of taxonomist David Starr Jordan and the brutal events that shaped his life, natural disasters, mysterious deaths and dark secrets included fascinating. Peoples need to order and define the world and fit into groups is also examined using events from the authors own life. Its a book that has stayed with me long after I finished reading it.
I can’t say a book about fishing really appeals to me but you’ve kind of sold it to me Nia. Hahaha.
This video has reminded me I need to read more non-fiction! A favourite of mine is 'A Still Life' by Josie George. It's a memoir of her life with a chronic illness, which I could really relate to, but it's also about all of the joy and beauty she finds in the little things when her body won't let her do the bigger things. It's so hopeful and beautifully written - I adored it!
I should read more books about chronic illness as someone with one… yet I don’t. I don’t know if it’s because I am slightly in denial about mine/don’t want to be defined by it and so I tend to leave books/shows etc well alone if they deal with it. Weird.
I enjoyed Sarah Churchwell’s book about Gone With the Wind, entitled The Wrath to Come.
Ooooooh. I’ve met Sarah and she seems lovely, not that that should matter… but it does.
Noting down many of these to look into further! I just read Marriage Portrait and it especially made me interested to turn to her non-fiction. I also somehow had thought The Erratics was fiction because of the plot, wild.
I would recommend Antigone Rising, the essay on Beyonce in the Louve is brilliant. I'm also always a huge fan of everything Sarah Vowell puts out, she has a way of making history so fun and finds minor details to tell it in a quirky way.
Hope you enjoy the ones you get to when you get to them. I’ll have to look up Antigone Rising and Sarah Vowell so thank you for the recommendations.
Brutally beautiful describes Demon Copperhead to me too! I didn’t wholly love it in the end though as it was a little unnecessarily long. I remember you reviewing The trauma Cleaner way back and I still haven’t read it. Time to put that right and thank you lovely Simon 💖
A pleasure. Hope you enjoy The Trauma Cleaner, if enjoy is the right word, when you get to it.
The two that stand out for me are Maggie O'Farrell's I Am, I Am, I Am and Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
I also recently read A Face For Picasso by Ariel Henley which I think is a really insightful read.
I can’t believe I didn’t recommend The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as I loved it. I did mention the O’Farrell though 😉
A bunch of these books have been on my TBR for a while, but they’ve just been pushed up the stack. Thanks so much for your recommendations!
A book I think you’ll love is Figuring by Maria Popova. It’s really difficult to describe. It’s part multi-biography, part philosophy, and part love-letter to poetry and science. Popova examines a group of mostly women who are mostly queer (keeping in mind that "queer" is a sometimes-restrictive modern term that doesn’t always account for passionate nonsexual relationships throughout history; she’s especially interested in that), and by looking at several lives over the last 150 years, asks, without ever asking outright, what makes a meaningful existence? how do we define a good life, or a good death? and what’s love got to do with it? It blew me away and settled itself firmly in my top five nonfiction books of all time. Absolutely stunning.
Hope you enjoy the books I’ve recommended when you get to them. I’ve not heard of Figuring but it sounds super duper interesting so I’ll have to look it up.
One nonfiction that I go back to is The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders. It is perfect
Oooh I would really like to read some Judith Flanders.
2 favorites are Radium Girls and Unorthodox. I want to read The Woman They Could Not Silence and Liar Temptress Soldier Spy. I want to read I Am I Am I Am, The Five and Know My Name.
I have Radium Girls on the shelves so may well head to that soon. Hope you enjoy the ones of mine you end up reading.
I rarely pick up non-fiction...
My favorite of the past was a Betty White memoir.
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I adoooooored Betty White.
I'm excited for this, but I agree that they should have spread out the two awards. I fear that the fiction longlist will overshadow the nonfiction books.
Yeah that could happen. Or vice versa dependant on the list. We shall see.
Hi Simon, thanks for the non-fiction recommendations. One of my more recent finds is a memoir titled American Bastard by Jan Beatty. Ms Beatty is a poet and I find that a poet's sensibility follows them into their prose writing, always with hauntingly beautiful results. This is no exception. It examines the erasure that Ms Beatty experienced from being adopted and her quest to discover her deleted history. I think you would love both the subject matter (an affirmation that everyone has a compelling story) and the way the story is told (the use of short vignettes that, themselves, can read like poems). Happy reading.
Oooh this sounds really good. I really like books, fiction and nonfiction, written by poets - they end up being some of my favourites so I’ll look that up!
I loved The Five - brilliantly written. Some others I have enjoyed are “The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks” - her cancer cells were taken and researched without her knowledge.
“smoke gets in your eyes” written by a women that works in a crematorium, fascinating and interesting
I should have included The Immortal Life as it’s brilliant. I’ve had lots of recommendations about nonfiction books around death… slightly worried what you all think of me. Hahahaha.
I've just realized that I have been neglecting non fiction this year. I know I started Sarah Ramey's The Lady's Handbook For Her Mysterious Illness. I had to take a break with it but I must get back to it soon.
Not gonna lie, sometimes I feel like I'm not smart enough to read certain non fiction. And yet, every time I pick one up, even if I dont get everything, I always learn something new and gain a better understanding of whatever is being discussed.
Oh I have that feeling too. I’ll pick some big non fiction chunkster up and think ‘no, don’t have the brains for that’ hahaha.
I absolutely loved my mess is a bit of a life! One of my absolute favourites.
I also recently really enjoyed Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn - she speaks to loads of fascinating people including Roxane Gay, Dolly Alderton, Lisa Taddeo and Candice Carty-Williams about how we find, sustain and cope with losing love. So interesting and beautifully put together. also loved that it touched on family and friendship love as just as integral. I think a few authors you like contributed! ❤
Oooh that sounds like a really interesting book. I have seen it around and not been tempted but you’ve made me think I should give it a flick through and see. Thank you.
@@SavidgeReads you’re welcome! Thanks for your videos - excited to pick some of these non-fiction titles up 😊
I just finished listening to How far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler. I know everyone is talking about the book and it is an intriguing take on a memoir. The audiobook was just to fly through.
Oooh I’ve not heard about it at all, hahaha. Will have to look it up.
Hi Simon, these are some phenomenal recommendations! In the dream house is one of my favourite books of all time.
I would recommend everything by Olivia Laing, but also Bluets by Maggie Nelsen, The year of magical thinking and Blue nights by Didion and I think you would like Erneaux as well.
I must read more Olivia Laing. I loved Crudo and enjoyed Funny Weather. I liked Nelson’s Bluets a lot too.
I loved Educated by Tara Westover. I read it with my jaw on the floor for about 50% of it.
I liked that book a lot. I always felt I was kept slightly at a distance by the author though. Not sure why, it’s definitely how I left the book feeling though.
Yeah for the Women’s Prize for Non-fiction. Some fab recommendations 📚
Feminism Interrupted by Lola Olufemi is one of my favourite Non-fiction. Just touches on loads of interesting themes and it’s very readable. 😊Also read and loved Transitional by Munroe Bergdorf recently too!!
I really, really, really want to read Transitional. Shall look up the Olufemi.
Oh yes, love The Trauma Cleaner, The Erratics and The Arsonist. Chloe Hooper has a new Non-Fiction out called Bedtime Story that you might like. She's married to another renowned Australian writer and historian, Don Watson. He contracted cancer and she was wondering how to tell their young children, she looks at children's stories that might help as they are going through the treatment process and it's interesting what she discovers. Written in her wonderful insightful style. So many wonderful memoirs by Australian women, I could recommend heaps more.
Also thought The Dream House was amazingly done. Another great list of books Simon! Happy Reading
Ooh I didn’t know about Bedtime Story. I shall have to look that up.
My favourite nonfiction book of recent years has been Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter by Angela Hui, I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara, Becoming Unbecoming by Una and The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace. One nonfiction you would like is Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter by Angela Hui.
Takeaway is high up on my TBR. I meant to read it last nonfiction November but didn’t get around to it. Oops.
I enjoyed the Lady in Waiting book by Lady Glenconnor you recommended and hope to finally read I Am An Island soon. Your talks with Melanie Sykes were delightful. I liked A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson and The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher.
I must must read Lady Glenconnor’s mystery novels and new memoir. I loved Lady in Waiting.
My favourite non fiction that I would recommend to you is Dear Reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink. Amazing memoir combined with the love of books - it was my favourite of the year in 2021. Love the sound of some of your favourites- I need to read more non fiction. It’s a shame that the two prizes will run at the same time, I think we would all be able to read a lot more of the picks if the two were separated.
I must read more of Cathy’s books. I read her first and absolutely loved it, so raw, so honest, so powerful. Lovely to see you yesterday!
@@SavidgeReads thanks Simon! It was lovely to meet you. I also got to meet Cathy Rentzenbrink, so that was a delight as well. 😊
A non-fiction that I've read recently and enjoyed was The Radium Girls, by Kate Moore that I think you'll probably enjoy. It's in the style of The Five with a focus on the women impacted by the decisions made by the Radium Company to not tell them that the radium they were working with was dangerous. There were points when I was so horrified I was talking out loud to myself.
I also highly recommend one that you've already mentioned: The Dream House. I totally bought it because of the gorgeous cover and had no idea what it was going in. The experimental style was off-putting first but then I really loved it!
The Radium Girls has been on my TBR for aaaaaaaages. I need to get to that at some point. I met the author in america years ago. She was great.
I have read recently and loved, Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Nozgi Adichie and Educated by Tara Westover. Also one I read a while ago was Red Rust Road By Jackie Kay. I seem to enjoy non fiction the most when it’s the story of someone life, but will also head to other stuff too. 💜
I liked Educated but I felt continually slightly at a distance from Tara and I wanted to be right with her and never quite was.
My choice is “Red Dust Road” by Jackie Kay 🤓 I discovered this poet/writer via The Big Scottish Book Club - she is so likeable & funny & clever ☺️ this book is her memoir.
Can I just say how affected I was by “I Am, I Am, I Am” (recently read) by the amazing Maggie O’Farrell.
Red Dust Road is great. I think I’ve lent my copy and never got it back. Huffs. Ha.
I borrowed a copy from the local library (last year I think 🤔) & then discovered I had a copy - it was a free giveaway years ago at a library event 👏🏻 (celebrating World Book Night 2013 🤓)
I'd recommend Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez. It's a really interesting book that really makes you think about things in a completely different way. For such a fact and data heavy book I think it's been written in a very readable format. Also has a good balance of bringing bisases to the forefront without being a militant feminist piece. Highly recommend
Oooh I’ve not heard of that one. I shall look it up! Thank you.
I have just read “In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss,” by Amy Bloom. I am not a romance person and seldom read non fiction but this book was beautifully written by Amy of the struggles with Alzheimer’s Disease and ending your life. I think it just came at the right time since my brother-in-law was diagnosed a few months ago with the same disease. It is just a subject that we shy away from but is so important to talk about. Amy just writes so beautifully and you see the love her and her husband have for each other and how they get through his diagnosis and deal with his disease.
As for the Women’s Prize for non fiction. I feel they should have them in separate seasons so that the books are featured more prominently. It seems that if both prizes are given at the same time, some books may lose readers because there are to many to read. The thing I like about the Women’s long list is that I try to read them all and end up liking books I would have never picked up!
I am not a romance/lovey person either and that was my third favorite book last year (I can’t even remember what drew me to it). Her narration was really great too.
You nailed it, the narration was a big part of it. One of my friends gave it to me knowing my brother-in-law just got diagnosed or I probably wouldn’t have picked it up. It brings up a lot of narrative and debate.
Oooh I have been meaning to read Amy Bloom ever since I watch The First Lady, with Gillian Anderson playing Eleanor Roosevelt who Amy Bloom writes about in White Houses. Still haven’t read that and must this sounds like another great book from her.
@@SavidgeReads Let me know if you read it, I will be curious to see if you enjoyed it. I have been meaning to get “White House’s.”
Thanks for this wonderful list of recommendations, Simon. I absolutely must recommend "Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir" by Lacy Crawford. It was my favorite read the year I picked it up, and it has resonated with me long after. Highly, highly recommend you give it a read!
Oooh I’ve not read or heard of that one. I shall look it up. Thank you Hannah.
Here's a pile I've loved: One More Croissant For the Road, Felicity Cloake; Animal Vegetable Mineral, B. Kingsolver; Wave, Sonali Deraniyagala; Men To Avoid in Art & Life, Nicole Tersigni; Being Wrong, Kathryn Schulz; North of Normal, Cea Sunrise Person; Not Without My Daughter, Betty Mahmoodyp; Quiverfull, Kathryn Joyce; Eating Dirt, Charlotte Gill; anything by Michelle Goldberg; Gut, Giulia Enders; Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich; Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Simon, I don't know if you would or wouldn't like any of these 😃
Ooooooh thank you for so many recommendations. I shall have lots of fun looking these up. I have read Animal Vegetable Miracle and I liked it a lot.
Chloe Hooper is a terrific writer. She also wrote a book called The Tall Man about an indigenous death in custody in a remote area of northern Australia and its consequences. The best non fiction I've read this year is In Love by Amy Bloom.
I have The Tall Man on my shelves. Must get to it. And you’re the second to recommend In Love so seems like that’s one I should definitely look out for.
I recommend Tove Ditlevson’s Copenhagen Trilogy, and Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran, both amazing memoirs. I also recommend Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y Davis.
Oooh thank you. I have the first of Tove’s books. I’ll look the other two up.
The Five by Hallie Rubenhold is a brilliant non fiction by a woman and also gives a voice to women, one of my favourites
Obviously wrote my post before watching the whole video, oops
Hahaha. Great minds think alike wink 😉
Ace by Angela Chen was my most recently read nonfic book that I enjoyed 😊 I am also reading Lesbian Love Story by Amelia Possanza - which is archives of lesbian love throughout history in New York (not finished yet).
Ooooh I’ve not heard of either of these. Thanks for the recommendations.
I really enjoyed’Why has nobody told me this before?’ by Dr Julie Smith as well as ‘The Devil You Know’ by Dr Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne. I’m sorry I have only recently found your channel so not sure if these would be of interest or if you’ve already read them. I’m quite fond of non-fiction with a psychological slant or anything on authors. I understand Hermione Lee is a wonderful biographer and have her ‘Virginia Woolf’ on my shelf.
Don’t be sorry. Never be sorry. We find things and people and books when we find them and it’s lovely to have you here. I haven’t read either of those books so will have to check them out, thank you.
I really, really loved The Lonely City by Olivia Laing!
I have that. I read and really liked Funny Weather. I’ve read her fiction, Crudo, too. So definitely keen to read more.
@@SavidgeReads Ah, I have Funny Weather on my tbr 😉
I really enjoyed The Five, I Am I Am I Am and How To Fail. I think about a third of my reading every year is non-fiction. Am currently reading Deborah Levy's Real Estate and am a bit surprised you didn't mention her! Roxane Gay has written some amazing non-fiction - particularly Bad Feminist. I know others have mentioned Chanel Miller's Know My Name - which really is phenomenal and my favourite NF from last year, closely followed by Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner and Caste by Isabel Wilkerson. This year I think Deborah Levy may top the list, but I also loved Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey.
Ooooh a third is a really good amount. I’m envious. Know My Name is on my shelves and has had a good few recommends. I saw Mercedes loved it and bought it then. Can’t believe I’ve still not read Crying in H Mart, I’ve been meaning to since I got a proof. I like Deborah Levy so no idea why didn’t include her, too many fab books and authors I guess. I missed a few corkers. Ah well.
My favourite is " Getting lost " by Annie Ernaux. I just found this author due to the book prize it's auto biography. The other book is Educated which I think you have read.
I must must must must read some Annie Ernaux.
I also recently found her. Really enjoyed her book “Happening”
Thanks for the giveaway chance….I would recommend we were once a family…I just read it and it was an eye opening account of cps and child removal from their homes…it follows the Hart case where a married couple, Sara and Jennifer Hart ran their suv over a cliff, ultimately killing themselves and murdering their 6 adopted children
Oooh who is it by?
I LOVED The Five
It’s great isn’t it. I can’t wait for a new one from her. Though I am waiting 😂
The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom is a must read!
Oooh noted.
I agree really enjoyed I am an island, as recommendedby yerself.
It’s a corker.
Hi Simon! I think you'd really like The Women with Silver Wings by Katherine Sharp Landdeck
Ooon thank you. I’ll look it up!
I LOVED Ninth Street Woman, by Mary Gabriel. Its a big one. The story of 5 important women artists in NYC between 1935-1980 (including Elaine deKooning and Lee Krasner). Definitely my jam. Super well-written. Vivid old scenes of downtown Manhattan. Just fascinating when art and history collide. Cassie Chambers wrote Hill Women about the women of Appalacchia. Slow at first but very poignant and honest. Not a caricatured view of mountain folks. If I had to pick a non-fiction book for you, I'd pick the late Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem.
By the way, I've written down Pandora's Jar. I need to learn a few tidbits about mythology. Sounds like a good entry. Thanks for the recommendations and the enthusiasm.
Oooh I’ve not heard of any of those, I’ve heard of Joan Didion but not that one, so I shall have to look them up. Especially the one about Appalachia which is a place that keeps coming up in conversations at the moment.
I think you may love King Peggy by Peggielene Bartels
Ooh thanks for the recommendation. I shall look it up!
I will go with a collection of essays called Gifts of Reading as a non fiction you will love although not sure it qualifies as not all women writers You could just read the ones by women or allow it in on the basis it was curated by Jennie Orchard! Otherwise, it has to be The Salt Path I am probably cheating putting forward 2 Enjoy
Ooon I’ll look those essays up. I liked The Salt Path a lot. Must read more of her work.
OK, for you I would recommend Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed, Glitter & Glue by Kelly Corrigan, and Know My Name by Chanel Miller.
What white people can do next was in my top books of the year last year, it was incredible.
Oh and also long live the tribe of fatherless girls by T Kira Madden - incredible.
Thank you for reminding me how much I want to read Long Live The Tribe of Fatherless Girls. Mercedes, who also made me by Chanel Miller’s book, sold it to me. Gotta get to both of them. I’ll look the other two up too. Thanks lovely!
The Golden Mole by Katherine Rundell is a book about weird animals that are going extinct. Animal book for grown ups. Also has gold sprayed edges and cute illustrations
I’ve seen that book around and been very drawn to it for material reasons, good to hear it’s a powerful book inside. I may have to get it when I next see it.
Excellent books, I happy to say I've read most of them (the others I will add to my TBR) Have you read 'Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law' by Mary Roache, it's wonderful!
Ha. Fuzz sounds ace.
If anyone is thinking of reading “The Five”, go the audiobook route. Louise Brealey is PHENOMENAL 😁
Tied for my second favorite book last year was Evanna Lynch’s memoir (also get on audiobook because she too is phenomenal).
I think I was sent Lynch’s memoir. I’ve no idea where it’s gone though.
I would have picked I Am, I Am, I Am and The Five, so I am no help! I will give some thought to a suggestion that might be new to you. In the meantime, you have given me some titles for my list. I am most interested in the Natalie Haines.
I hope you enjoy Natalie’s book when you get to it.
In The Dreamhouse is one of my all-time favorites for sure. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson and Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner would be my other top 2 as of right now.
Really really really want to read Crying in H Mart. Have been meaning to since I got the proof aaaaaaaages ago.
@@SavidgeReadsDo it! It's EXCELLENT.
@@angelajones129 it really is. The audio is perfection too.
I commented so fast at the start of the video THE ARSONIST but I was pretty sure you read that and then low and behold it’s on the list 😂 I had a really tough time choosing one to recommend, I wanted to say Unfollow but I read that because of you 😂 I noticed not many essay collections, do you enjoy them? I do and love all the usual suspects like Roxane Gay but I think I want to recommend Siri Hustvedt’s Mothers, Fathers and Others. Hoping you haven’t already read it. I get so many of my recommendations of non-fiction from you 🙈
Oooh I haven’t read that so thank you for the recommendation. I must try Roxanne Gay at some point too.
Is there a list for the non-fiction long list somewhere? Btw I have The Arsonist on my June reading list. Looking forward to it.
The Womens Prize for Non-Fiction launches next spring!
@@SavidgeReads ok. Ta.
I think you would like Wild by Cheryl Strayed or for a lighter read Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? By Caitlin Doughty.
Hahahaha the title of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs makes me want to read it NOW!
@@SavidgeReads She's a mortician and answers that and other great questions about death lol She also has a youtube channel.
One of my favorite nonfiction is Sex with Presidents by Eleanor Herman. It’s a book about the sexual lives of American presidents and First Ladies. Thanks for the amazing list of recommendations!
Oooh since watching The First Lady (brilliant telly!) I’ve been wanting to read more about them. That sounds fab!
Hi Simon ! When you announced that there was going to be a new book competition in Non Fiction just for women I realized that I would very much like to be a judge. I have absolutely no idea how to get in touch with the people involved to add my name to the pile ? Thank you so much !
I think with most judging panels they have a board who select people to invite. You can’t really suggest yourself. Which sounds weird but think also oddly makes sense.
I havent read samantha irbys new book, but enjoyed wow, no thank you. Also, these truths by jill leopre, us history that i didnt lesrn in school (but should have).
I love Samantha Irby. I should have had her in the mix. What a fool I am. Ha.
Have you read Paula by Isabel Allende, fantastic book 📚
I haven’t. I tried Allende once and wasn’t sure she was for me but I know that Mum loves her.
My recommendation is YEARS old, but I still recommend it regularly, both as non-fiction and as a book by a female author. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot. Everybody should read it - an interesting bit of science history, but so much more a human story, dealing with issues of race, society and medicine in the US. Excellent reading!
I should have recommended that one. A few corkers slipped through the net when I was picking books of the shelf. It’s a fantastic book.
I have never read nonfiction. I am a huge romance reader and that is all I am reading these days.
That’s fair enough. Read whatever works for you.
books mentioned list is blank in the dropbox just fyi
Yeah I haven’t had chance to do that yet. I was editing the video on the train back from a conference in London and was then shattered and crashed.
@@SavidgeReads oh no I wasnt trying to rush you, it’s just I’ve never seen it missing before so I thought maybe you had forgotten was just letting you know. I love non fiction so maybe I was a lil overly excited I apologize
@@SabrinaHawk haha. I didn’t think you were. I was just explaining. I think actually it says ‘watch to find out’ as at the moment filming and editing is hard to do let alone the rest lol.
@@SavidgeSnapshots haha phew I’d never want a creator to feel any extra pressure. I appreciate all the work you put in, sharing your passion for books 💙
I don't know if you've heard of or read "The Crimes of Charlotte Brontë: The Secret History of the Mysterious Events at Haworth". If you love the Bronte's you probably should not read this. . . Were the tragically young deaths of the Bronte siblings merely the result of disease and poverty? How did three sisters in a remote parsonage know so much about the tumultuous passions of dark and twisted love? This novel, now in paperback, is based on the author's research into the lives, works and characters of the Bronte family.. Historical Fiction, Mystery, Crime, True Crime . . .
This novel has been controversial for those of us who have read it! Can it really be possible? This may change your opinion and perspective of Charlotte Bronte . . .
Ha. Interesting I’ve only read Wuthering Heights (not a fan) and Jane Eyre (which I loved) plus some poems. But I went to the parsonage recently and it’s brought an interest up in them I wasn’t expecting. So maybe this could be good.
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I think you may have already read most of these but - Educated, Maid, The Five, Girly Drinks, and of course, I'm Glad My Mom Died...
Ha. The Five was in this video, coughs. Lol.
I was going to mention Educated (by Tara Westover) too
@@Nickelini read it, liked it.