#NonFicNov 2023 Week 1

Meet your hosts!

1. Liz – Adventures in reading, running and working from home
2. Frances – Volatile Rune
3. Heather –  Based on a True Story
4. Rebekah –  She Seeks Nonfiction
5. Lisa – Hopewell’s Public Library of Life

How it works

Week 1 (10/30-11/3) Your Year in Nonfiction: Celebrate your year of nonfiction. What books have you read? What were your favorites?  (Heather –  Based on a True Story)

Week 2 (11/6-11/10) Choosing Nonfiction: What are you looking for when you pick up a nonfiction book? Do you have a particular topic you’re attracted to?  (Frances – Volatile Rune)

Week 3 (11/13-11/17) Book Pairings: This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. Maybe it’s a historical novel and the real history in a nonfiction version.  (Liz – Adventures in reading, running and working from home)

Week 4 (11/20-11/24) Worldview Shapers: What nonfiction book or books have impacted the way you see the world in a powerful way? Is there one book that made you rethink everything? Do you think there is a book that should be required reading for everyone? (Rebekah –  She Seeks Nonfiction)

Week 5 (11/27-12/1) New To My TBR:  Which books  have made it onto your TBR? Be sure to link back to the original blogger who posted about that book! (Lisa – Hopewell’s Public Library of Life)

Non-Fiction: 2023   

BEST NON FICTION 2023    The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi

(TOP FIVE)

1. Why We Sleep  NF – M. Walker  – REVIEW
2. A Very Easy Death – S. de Beauvoir – memoir – REVIEW
3. A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast – Dorthe Nors – REVIEW
4. La panthère des neiges – S. Tesson  NF (French) – REVIEW
5. Hong Kong and  Macao – J. Kessel  – REVIEW
6. My Fourth Time, We Drowned – Sally Hayden – REVIEW
7. De Doorsons – Roline Redmond (Dutch book)  – REVIEW
8. Love Songs W.E. Du Bois – Honorée  F. Jeffers – REVIEW
9. Punch Me Up to the Gods (memoir) – Brian Broome – REVIEW
10. Halfway Home –  R.J. Miller  – REVIEW
    
11. A Knock At Midnight – Brittany K. Barnett (NF)  – REVIEW
12. Short History of Irish Literature – F. O’ Connor – REVIEW     
13. L’Armée du silence – G. Pollack, 2022  (NF) – REVIEW
14. On Becoming an American Writer – J. McPherson – REVIEW
15. Do Not Disturb  – M. Wrong, 2021  – REVIEW
16. The Man with Miraculous Hands – Joseph Kessel – REVIEW
17. Georges Perec – Claude Burgelin (2023) – REVIEW
18. The Scheme – Sheldon Whitehouse – REVIEW
19. My Own Words –  Ruth Bader Ginsburg (memoir)  – REVIEW
20. Mike Nichols: A Life – Mark Harris – REVIEW  
21. The Fall: The End of Fox News – Michael Wolff  (2023) – REVIEW
22. Killing for Country – David Marr (NF) (2023) – REVIEW
23. Australia’s China Odyssey – James Curran  (2022) – REVIEW
24. The Passion of Private White – Don Watson (2022) – REVIEW 
25. Bulldozed – Niki Savva  (2022)  – REVIEW
26. Crossing the Line – N. McKenzie  (2023) – REVIEW
27. Currowan: Story of a Fire – Bronwyn Adcock  (2021) – REVIEW
28. Toxic – R. Flanagan – REVIEW
29. The Palestine Laboratory – A. Loewenstein – REVIEW

Literature:

1. Short History of Irish Literature – F. O’ Connor, 1968  Intro  – REVIEW     

Memoir:

1. A Very Easy Death – S. de Beauvoir – memoir – REVIEW
2. Punch Me Up to the Gods (memoir) – Brian Broome – REVIEW
3. A Knock At Midnight – Brittany K. Barnett (NF)  – REVIEW
4. My Own Words –  Ruth Bader Ginsburg (memoir)  – REVIEW
5. Halfway Home –  R.J. Miller  – REVIEW
6. On Becoming an American Writer – J. McPherson – REVIEW

Biography:

1. Mike Nichols: A Life – Mark Harris – REVIEW
2. Love Songs W.E. Du Bois – Honorée  F. Jeffers – REVIEW

History:

1. Do Not Disturb  – M. Wrong, 2021  – REVIEW
2. Killing for Country – David Marr (NF) (2023) – REVIEW
3. De Doorsons – Roline Redmond (Dutch book)  – REVIEW
4. My Fourth Time, We Drowned – Sally Hayden – REVIEW
5. The Man with Miraculous Hands – Joseph Kessel – REVIEW

Travel/Nature/Environment

1. A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast – Dorthe Nors – REVIEW
2. La panthère des neiges – S. Tesson  NF (French)  – REVIEW
3. Hong Kong and  Macao – J. Kessel  – REVIEW
4. Currowan: Story of a Fire – Bronwyn Adcock  (2021) – REVIEW
5. Toxic – R. Flanagan – REVIEW

Science/Health:

1. Why We Sleep  NF – M. Walker  – REVIEW

French:

1. L’Armée du silence – G. Pollack, 2022  (WW II) – REVIEW
2. Georges Perec – Claude Burgelin (2023) – REVIEW

Political:

1. Bulldozed – Niki Savva  (2022)  – REVIEW
2. The Scheme – Sheldon Whitehouse – REVIEW
3. The Fall: The End of Fox News – Michael Wolff  (NF) (2023) – REVIEW
4. Australia’s China Odyssey – James Curran  (2022) – REVIEW
5. Crossing the Line – N. McKenzie  (2023) – REVIEW
6. The Passion of Private White – Don Watson (2022) – REVIEW 
7. The Palestine Laboratory – A. Loewenstein – REVIEW