24 Nonfiction Books That Have Changed My Life!

Thanks for watching! This is not close to covering all of the nonfiction books I love. Let me know if you would want another video like this one. What are your favorite non-fiction reads?
00:00 Intro
00:53 Books about war
02:51 Adoption
04:03 Injustice
06:14 The Justice System
08:23 History
10:08 Science
10:44 Death
11:17 Drugs
12:25 Me Too
14:01 Con People
15:36 Outro
Books Mentioned:
Hiroshima by John Hersey
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
Red Famine by Anne Applebaum
The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
The Cost of Free Land by Rebecca Clarren
Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Woman they Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
The Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Smoke Gets in your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
Dreamland by Sam Quinones
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
Missoula By Jon Krakauer
She Said by Jodi Cantor and Megan Twohey
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope
The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein

[@giantcupofcoffee]

Ooo great recs! I really loved Prairie Fires, the Laura Ingalls Wilder biography! I felt like I learned so much about American history!

[@savagereads]

Thanks for the recommendation! I have added it to the TBR 😊

[@audreyapproved]

I loved this!! Okay the only ones I've read on this are Bad Blood, Dreamland, Empire of Pain, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and Say Nothing. But I want to get to Billion Dollar Whale, Know My Name (it's been on my TBR a while but I know it's going to be a hard read so I always put it off), Missoula (I think the last of the Krakauer books I have to get to), Hiroshima, and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee!!

[@savagereads]

That is a good amount of overlap! I hope you enjoy the other ones! Most of them are a little heavy in topic but are still really great 😊

[@evamarina2045]

Yes! I've read and agree with so many of these books. There are a few that have been on my list for a while and I'll have to move them up. I don't think I'd ever heard of Billion Dollar Whale before, I'm adding it to my list. Have you read Ghosts of the Orphanage by Christine Kenneally? Others that come to mind are Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara, Still Life with Bones by Alexa Haggerty, America Redux by Ariel Aberg-Riger (I think this one works best if you read the physical book), The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, The Fifth Act by Elliot Ackerman, and What Doesn't Kill You by Tessa Miller.

[@savagereads]

I haven't heard of most of these! Cobalt Red has been on my list for a while but I am adding the others right now. Thank you for the recommendations!!!

[@TheKatBite]

As soon as I saw the title of this video, I knew I would be adding more books to my TBR 😅 Thank you for these great recommendations.
King Leopold’s Ghost is definitely one from this list that’s stuck with me. Bad Blood was another great one.
Would recommend Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez. That one changed the way I think about the world. Wizard of Lies by Diana Henriques is another good one about frauds.

[@savagereads]

Thank you! I read Invisible Women a few years ago and it was amazing! For sure a 5 star read 😊 I will add The Wizard of Lies to my TBR right now 😊

[@davidnovakreadspoetry]

This is a great list of titles. Of these I’ve read _Hiroshima, King Leopold’s Ghost_ and have _Emperor of All Maladies_ on my shelf. I have a lot of catching up to do. 😂
I agree that they have stuck with me.

[@savagereads]

Thank you! It is hard to forget Hiroshima or King Leopold's Ghost! I think you will like The Emperor of All Maladies when you get to it. It is information heavy but worth putting the time into!

[@tahlia__nerds_out]

Hi! 👋 New subscriber, so nice to find a fellow nonfiction reader who (judging by a previous video title) also knits. You read such a wide variety of books! I’ve been wanting to “The Emperor of All Maladies” for quite a while, and “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” also sounds very interesting. I used to work as a nurse and used to see patients who struggled with addiction; the books on the opioid epidemic sound heartbreaking.
I read Bad Blood a year or two ago! Excellent book! One of the whistleblowers, Tyler Shultz, has an audible original book called “Thicker Than Blood”, where he talks about how difficult it was to stand up against Theranos. If you haven’t listened to it yet, I highly recommend it. Thanks for all the recommendations!

[@savagereads]

Hi! Thank you for watching and subscribing 😊I do love a good nonfiction book and knitting project! Thank you for the recommendation! I will have to check it out

[@TriumphalReads]

👏👏👏 awesome, best nonfiction list video I've seen in forever! Great video all around Hannah. I think I'm most interest in the death penalty related books you mentioned as it something I've never actually read much on and would definitely like to understand the subject better

[@savagereads]

Thank you so much! I learned so much from the death penalty books. I think everyone should really study the issue. So many people don't understand what happens, who is involved, how it is applied, and what it costs to both people and the system.

[@stephenn3727]

Thank you!

[@savagereads]

Thank you for watching!

[@AaronReadABook]

I need to come back to this video before non-fiction November 😁 I love Hiroshima and Say Nothing. I own King Leopold’s Ghost but haven't read it yet, but I really enjoyed his book To End All Wars which is about conscientious objectors in WWI. I also have Missoula, I think I must have bought that based on your recommendation at some point.

[@savagereads]

To End All Wars sounds fascinating! I will add it to my TBR right now. Thanks!

[@miself]

cheers ford that, also may like to read . Bridge Across My Sorrows by Christina Noble . Bent Not Broken ⋆ Lauren Roche . read both books 2006 : life changing.

[@savagereads]

Thank you for the recommendations! I love a good memoir 😊

[@michaelchandler490]

Great Video

[@savagereads]

Thanks for watching!

[@lieffax]

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