#NonFicNov 2021 week 3

Week 3: (November 15-19) – Be/Ask/Become the Expert with Veronica at The Thousand Book Project: Three ways to join in this week! You can either share 3 or more books on a single topic that you have read and can recommend (be the expert), you can put the call out for good nonfiction on a specific topic that you have been dying to read (ask the expert), or you can create your own list of books on a topic that you’d like to read (become the expert). 

Conclusion:

1. I must have spent 2-3 hours just thinking about what topic
2. …I want to be an expert in?
3. Racism, history, art, science….I just could not put my finger on one topic.
4. So I just decided to READ  the  nonfiction 
5. Longlist for the 2021 National Book Awards.
6. I’m sure this will guide me in my NF reading….into areas that I
7. …never would have explored

UPDATE: 17.11.2021  National Book Awards Winners 2021!

Fiction – Nonfiction – Poetry – Translated literature – Young People’s Literature

Hanif Abdurraqib, “A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance” (finalist) –

REVIEW

Lucas Bessire, “Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains” (finalist)

Grace M. Cho, “Tastes Like War: A Memoir” (finalist)

Scott Ellsworth, “The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice”

Nicole Eustace, “Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America” (finalist)

Heather McGhee, “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together”

Louis Menand, “The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War”

Tiya Miles, “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake  (finalist)

Clint Smith, “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America”  –

REVIEW

Deborah Willis, “The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship