So many great choices! 😊 I saw several of my favorites here, including 'Endurance' and 'The Silk Roads.' 'Destiny Disrupted' sounds quite intriguing, and I really like Karen Armstrong's work. Thanks for sharing this interesting list! ~ Kim
Sapiens and The Great Transformation were great for me because they really made me look at the world from a different perspective. The Well Educated Mind has great book recommendations and one day I hope to get to all of them lol!
How fitting that the photo of your son as a baby “just popping out” of a book about humankind 😂 Pop! Great and very varied recommendations! I don’t read a lot of nonfiction, but the ones I have read this year have been great; The Wager by David Grann, and Sociopath by Patric Gagne
I always do Nonfiction November, too - it's been an event in the blogging world for decades. I don't normally read a lot of nonfiction, so this gives me some extra motivation. The book you're thinking of is Julie and Julia - I enjoyed that one, but I haven't yet read Julia Child's own book. The Book Whisperer sounds great. I've heard good things about Sapiens. Some really fascinating sounding books here. The funny thing is that when I saw your title, I thought I could predict what books/authors you'd include ... but I'd never heard of most of these before. So thanks for the new recs!
Hahaha I’m glad I surprised you with my choices! I need to read Julie and Julia because I really liked the movie and the actual Julia Child book was fantastic!
I already love reading nonfiction, but I still enjoyed this video a lot ^^ I'm definitely adding The Well-Educated Mind to my TBR, it sounds right up my alley!
I love Donalyn Miller. I have also read her book Reading in the Wild and can recommend that one. Miller’s friend/former coworker Colby Sharp is still an English Language Arts teacher and has his own TH-cam channel and website with book recommendations.
I read Endurance two years ago and think it’s fantastic. I’m looking forward to checking out The Silk Roads, which has been on my radar for a while and Destiny Disrupted, which I hadn’t heard of. Also, thanks for the reminder for Julia Childs’ book, I own it but haven’t yet read it. Some NF books I’ve loved are anything by Robert Kurson but specifically Shadow Divers or Pirate Hunters. Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand. The memoir What my Bones Know by Stephanie Foo. The Barn: the secret history of a murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson. I’ve also enjoyed the works of Susan Casey (oceanic topics) and Sebastian Junger.
@@MyMessyBookshelf yay! I’m glad I could share some titles you haven’t read yet. Hopefully if you read any they’ll be as thrilling for you as for me :)
❤📚📚❤️ I jotted down your suggestions, they sound good. Of course, Endurance is a favorite of mine, as well. 😊 I only have three unread nonfiction on my shelves at the moment to choose from. The Wager by David Grann Crazy Love by Francis Chan Wild by Cheryl Srayed I hope to read at least one in November.
For those of us who loved Endurance, I think The Wager was a great book to fulfil that craving haha. But it was excellent. A little more nautical language than Endurance had but also more scandalous!
Six Frigates was very good. Ian Toll has also written quite a few WWII novels. I have read his WWII war in the Pacific series, Pacific Crucible, The Conquering Tide and Twilight of the Gods. All were excellent. I would recommend The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M Graff about 9/11. It is short and utterly fascinating.
@@jobuckley2999 I have Pacific Crucible and have made it maybe halfway through but never finished it… good to know you enjoyed it. Thanks for the recommendations!
I love nonfiction! And this might be a good time to get back into it because I have a whole bunch I need to read and finish reading. lol I loved The Lost City of by David Grann. I do have The Wager on my wishlist though. Some I would like to continue and start reading. Coloured: How Classification Became Culture by Tessa Dooms and Lynsey Ebony Chutel. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou The FBI Killer by Aphrodite Jones Poisoned Blood: A True Story of Murder, Passion and Astonishing Hoax by Philip E. Ginsburg The last two I’ve seen countless true crime documentaries and tv movies on them. But I want to read the books too cause you know the docs and movies usually leave things out or don’t have enough time to include everything. I’ve really been into fantasy romance/romantasy the past couple of months. Plus, I’m such a mood reader. 😩 So we’ll see how it goes. lol
@@tarareads23 The Lost City is one I really want to get to but the Frederick Douglas one you mentioned is one I’ve read and it was AMAZING. One of the most powerful books I’ve ever read knowing that it was a true story. I hope you “enjoy” it. I know it’s hard to enjoy something like that knowing this man suffered through those things but I don’t regret reading it one bit!
@ Yeah, I’d have to be in the right mindset to read FD book. There’s also a book called Barracon by Zora Neale Hurston I want to read too. It’s the story of the last black cargo ship coming from Africa carrying slaves. It’s an interview with one of the last survivors/freed slaves. I think it would be fascinating to read but also painful and harrowing. So you definitely have to have the right mindset to read certain books.
So many great choices! 😊 I saw several of my favorites here, including 'Endurance' and 'The Silk Roads.'
'Destiny Disrupted' sounds quite intriguing, and I really like Karen Armstrong's work. Thanks for sharing this interesting list! ~ Kim
Oooh it sounds like we may have similar reading tastes. 🙂Destiny Disrupted was fascinating and eye opening for me!
@MyMessyBookshelf ❤️
I love nonfiction!! Sapiens is on my list to read. I’ll be adding The Well-Educated Mind and The Great Transformation to my future TBR.
Why am I not surprised to see you around here? 😊
@@Curious-Cat 🤣 I’m predictable.
Sapiens and The Great Transformation were great for me because they really made me look at the world from a different perspective. The Well Educated Mind has great book recommendations and one day I hope to get to all of them lol!
How fitting that the photo of your son as a baby “just popping out” of a book about humankind 😂 Pop!
Great and very varied recommendations!
I don’t read a lot of nonfiction, but the ones I have read this year have been great; The Wager by David Grann, and Sociopath by Patric Gagne
Ooooh I will have to check out Sociopath! Sounds interesting!
I always do Nonfiction November, too - it's been an event in the blogging world for decades. I don't normally read a lot of nonfiction, so this gives me some extra motivation. The book you're thinking of is Julie and Julia - I enjoyed that one, but I haven't yet read Julia Child's own book. The Book Whisperer sounds great. I've heard good things about Sapiens. Some really fascinating sounding books here. The funny thing is that when I saw your title, I thought I could predict what books/authors you'd include ... but I'd never heard of most of these before. So thanks for the new recs!
Hahaha I’m glad I surprised you with my choices! I need to read Julie and Julia because I really liked the movie and the actual Julia Child book was fantastic!
I already love reading nonfiction, but I still enjoyed this video a lot ^^ I'm definitely adding The Well-Educated Mind to my TBR, it sounds right up my alley!
@@Curious-Cat Twins!
I hope you enjoy it! It really gives a lot of good book recommendations and lays out a plan to get a great home education by reading great books.
@@Maeve_Ever_Books 😂 I love that for us!
Great list!! Endurance is such a good read - I found it so so gripping! Gotta get to Silk Roads soon, that's been on my TBR forever
Agreed! It was so fast paced and entertaining. I hope you enjoy Silk Roads!
I love Donalyn Miller. I have also read her book Reading in the Wild and can recommend that one. Miller’s friend/former coworker Colby Sharp is still an English Language Arts teacher and has his own TH-cam channel and website with book recommendations.
That is so neat! I have never read or heard of any other books by Miller so I will have to look into it!
I read Endurance two years ago and think it’s fantastic. I’m looking forward to checking out The Silk Roads, which has been on my radar for a while and Destiny Disrupted, which I hadn’t heard of. Also, thanks for the reminder for Julia Childs’ book, I own it but haven’t yet read it.
Some NF books I’ve loved are anything by Robert Kurson but specifically Shadow Divers or Pirate Hunters. Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand. The memoir What my Bones Know by Stephanie Foo. The Barn: the secret history of a murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson. I’ve also enjoyed the works of Susan Casey (oceanic topics) and Sebastian Junger.
@@christine_reads ooooh thanks for the recommendations! I’m always on the look out for some interesting nonfiction!
@@MyMessyBookshelf yay! I’m glad I could share some titles you haven’t read yet. Hopefully if you read any they’ll be as thrilling for you as for me :)
Six Frigates sounds awesome! I need to check this out soon!
@@Already-Overbooked it was so great! It was so interesting to read about some of the “founding fathers” that we don’t ever hear about!
I may get Endurance for my husband--or I might get the audio so we can listen together. You are one of many people I've seen rave about it!
I really did enjoy it! I downloaded the audio and I ended up reading it because the audio wasn’t fast enough! 🤣
Nice suggestions! I read A Well trained Mind when I homeschooled my kids years ago.
@@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD that’s so good to hear because I loved it and the other books they wrote!
@MyMessyBookshelf oh yes we ate up Story of the World books!
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I jotted down your suggestions, they sound good. Of course, Endurance is a favorite of mine, as well. 😊
I only have three unread nonfiction on my shelves at the moment to choose from.
The Wager by David Grann
Crazy Love by Francis Chan
Wild by Cheryl Srayed
I hope to read at least one in November.
For those of us who loved Endurance, I think The Wager was a great book to fulfil that craving haha. But it was excellent. A little more nautical language than Endurance had but also more scandalous!
@@MyMessyBookshelf okay, thanks!! 😀
Six Frigates was very good. Ian Toll has also written quite a few WWII novels. I have read his WWII war in the Pacific series, Pacific Crucible, The Conquering Tide and Twilight of the Gods. All were excellent. I would recommend The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M Graff about 9/11. It is short and utterly fascinating.
@@jobuckley2999 I have Pacific Crucible and have made it maybe halfway through but never finished it… good to know you enjoyed it. Thanks for the recommendations!
I love nonfiction! And this might be a good time to get back into it because I have a whole bunch I need to read and finish reading. lol
I loved The Lost City of by David Grann. I do have The Wager on my wishlist though.
Some I would like to continue and start reading.
Coloured: How Classification Became Culture by Tessa Dooms and Lynsey Ebony Chutel.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
The FBI Killer by Aphrodite Jones
Poisoned Blood: A True Story of Murder, Passion and Astonishing Hoax by Philip E. Ginsburg
The last two I’ve seen countless true crime documentaries and tv movies on them. But I want to read the books too cause you know the docs and movies usually leave things out or don’t have enough time to include everything.
I’ve really been into fantasy romance/romantasy the past couple of months. Plus, I’m such a mood reader. 😩 So we’ll see how it goes. lol
@@tarareads23 The Lost City is one I really want to get to but the Frederick Douglas one you mentioned is one I’ve read and it was AMAZING. One of the most powerful books I’ve ever read knowing that it was a true story. I hope you “enjoy” it. I know it’s hard to enjoy something like that knowing this man suffered through those things but I don’t regret reading it one bit!
@ Yeah, I’d have to be in the right mindset to read FD book. There’s also a book called Barracon by Zora Neale Hurston I want to read too. It’s the story of the last black cargo ship coming from Africa carrying slaves. It’s an interview with one of the last survivors/freed slaves. I think it would be fascinating to read but also painful and harrowing. So you definitely have to have the right mindset to read certain books.