#NonFicNov 2021 week 1

 

Week 1: (November 1-5) – Your Year in Nonfiction with Rennie at What’s Nonfiction: Take a look back at your year of nonfiction and reflect on the following questions – What was your favorite nonfiction read of the year? Do you have a particular topic you’ve been attracted to more this year? What nonfiction book have you recommended the most? What are you hoping to get out of participating in Nonfiction   

1. If you are looking for an Xmas present for that non-fiction lover on your list
2. …perhaps you can find one on ‘My year Reading Non-fiction 2021’.
3. You can always say the book is from the dog!

• Books read:    01 November 2020 – 31 October 2021
• All reviews you are interested in can  be found here “Monthly Planning”
• Non-fiction books: 48   -> that is  37% of all my reading (130 books)

1. I started the year off eager to read non-fiction books
2. …but slowly my NF reading fizzled out at the end of June.
3. Why?  I have no idea.
4. This reading year felt chaotic.
5. There was no plan I could stick to and I was
6. …still trying to get my reading ‘mojo’ back after Covid 2020.
7. I’m sure there were many readers in this same predicament.
8. After reviewing my reading choices
9. ….INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
10. …seems to be the number one topic!

• Investigative Journalism:
• ..focusing on the truth no matter who is involved

1. Catch and Kill (2019) – Ronan Farrow  (USA – sexual harassment in Hollywood)
2. After the Count – S. Convery (Australia – inside look at the world of boxing…fascinating!)
3. City On Fire: The Fight For Hong Kong – A. Dapiran  (Hong Kong – struggle for democracy)
4. Body Count – Paddy Manning (Australia – climate change is killing us)
5. Zero Fail (2021) – Carol Leonnig (USA – rise and fall of the Secret Service)
6. Fallen – Lucie Morris-Marr (Australia – secret trial to convict Cardinal Pell)
7. Hazelwood – T. Doig (Australia – toxic coal mine/public health cover-up)
8. The Jakarta Method – Vincent Bevins (USA – exposing US policy of regime change)
9. We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know – S. McNeill (Australian Middle East jurno – tragic issues)
10. Ghost Wars – Steve Coll (2004) (USA – secret history of the CIA in Afghanistan)
11. The Altar Boys – S. Smith –> (Australia – heartbreaking abuse exposed)

    Complete List Non-fiction books 2021:

1. Everything Happens for a Riesling – G. de Morgan
2. Entangled Life – M. Sheldrake 
3. Zero Fail (2021) – Carol Leonnig
4. Catch and Kill (2019) – Ronan Farrow –> highly recommended
5. Mediocre – Ijeoma Oluo
6. Gulag Archipelago vol 1 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (classic)
7. Nobody Knows My Name – James Baldwin (essays)
8. Talking To My Country – Stan Grant
9. Wayward Lives – Saidiya Hartman (criticism)
10. Rembrandt and the Female Nude – E. Sluijter
11. Classical Art: From Greece to Rome – M. Beard
12. Has China Won? – K. Muhbubani
13. Henri Matisse: Rooms with a View – S. Neilsen Blum
14. Classical Art – M. Beard
15. Bloodlands – T. Snyder 
16. The Betrayal – W. R. Corson (1968)
17. Revolusi – David van Reybrouck  (Dutch)
18. Urk – M. Declercq  (Dutch)
19. Een Klein Land Met Verre Uithoeken – Floor Milikowski  (Dutch)
20. Ghost Wars – Steve Coll (2004)
21. The Origins of Totalitarianism – Hannah Arendt
22. Pure, White and Deadly – J. Yudkin
23. Anseo – Úna-Mingh Kavanaugh
24. A Promised Land – Barack Obam
25. The Jakarta Method – Vincent Bevins –> highly recommended
26. The Grand Chessboard – Zbigniew Brzezinski
27. Society 4.0 – B. de Wit
28. How Fascism Works – Jason Stanley
29. Kill Switch – Adam Jentleson
30. A Black Women’s History of the United States – Daina Ramey Berry
31. AI Superpowers – Kai-Fu Lee
32. The Anarchy – W. Dalrymple
33. After the Count – Stephanie Convery –> highly recommended
34. Say Nothing – P. R. Keefe
35. Body Count – Paddy Manning
36. How to Do Nothing – J. Odell
37. How to Make A Slave – J. Walker
38. The Dead Are Arising – Les Payne (biography)
39. Don’t Touch My Hair – Emma Dabiri
40. Dying of Whiteness – J. Metzl
41. Hazelwood – T. Doig 
42. We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know – Sophie McNeill
43. Fallen – Lucie Morris-Marr 
44. Comrade Ambassador – S. FitzGerald (biography)
45. City On Fire: The Fight For Hong Kong – A. Dapiran
    
46.  The Altar Boys – S. Smith –> highly recommended
47. Penny Wong – M. Simons (biography)
48.  Walking with Ghosts – Gabriel Byrne (memoir)