Nonfiction for 2024 - help me decide

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6 ай бұрын

Welcome! Help me decide up to three of these for my TBR Non-Fiction mug. Thank you and hope you'll stick around to see what wins!
Books mentioned:
Galveston JG Nagle
Empire of Sun and Moon SC Gwynne
Rebel Yell SC Gwynne
Running with the Buffalos
How the Word is Passed Clint Smith
Martin Luther Eric Metaxas
How to be an AntiRacist Ibram Kendi
Seven Who Fought
Long Journey Back Home Emmanuel Nabieu
Time Travel Garner
Discrimination and Disparities Thomas Sowell
Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess Leaf
Begin Again Eddie Glaube
I am I am I am Maggie OFarrell
My Name is Red Orhan Pamuk
Snow Orhan Pamuk
Strangers in Budapest Keener
Danube Claudio Magris
White Fragility
100 African Americans Who Shaped American History
A Browsers Book of Texas History Jent
Race Against Time Jerry Mitchell
Pilgrimage of a Soul Heuertz
The Devil's Backbone Daniels
Catching the Light Jo Harjo
The Lost Girls of Ireland O Leary
Islands of Abandonment
Doing Good Better Willaim Macaskill
The Bullfighter checks her makeup Susan Orlean
Penguin the Magpie Cameron Bloom
World History for young readers
Mandela
Margaret Thacher
Dinner with the President
Talking to Myself Studs Terkel
Shakespeare Bill Bryson
A Heart in a Body in the World Caletti
Bright Precious Thing Gail Caldwell
The Fact of a Body
The Accidental Fame and lack of fortune of West Tennessee's David Crockett- Scott Williams
The First Tycoon- Cornelius Vanderbilt TJ Stiles
My Life Bill Clinton
A Promised Land Barack Obama
A World Transformed George Bush

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@readandre-read 6 ай бұрын

How the Word is Passed! It's so good.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

I've heard really nothing but praise for it! thanks!

@ellanvannin1704 6 ай бұрын

My nomination is Blue Machine: How the ocean works, by Helen Czerski. A fascinating insight into how the shape and structure of our oceans affect the daily lives of every person, and creature, on our planet.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

Sounds good- I will look it up for my tbr wishlist 🧡

@AmeliaHuckleberry 6 ай бұрын

I vote for My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk. Runner up: I Am I Am I Am by Maggie O'Farrell. Thomas Sowell is worthwhile anytime!

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

All very great choices with solid authors :) Thank you!

@BandysBooks 6 ай бұрын

A Promised Land is really well written and interesting. I have Empire of The Summer Moon but haven’t read it yet. How To Be An Antiracist is fantastic. It’s in my top 10 nonfic for the year.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

Maybe Empire of the summer moon is the a buddy read? I do look forward to all the ones you mentioned- thank you!

@jaimeehingerton2397 6 ай бұрын

Those sound like great options! I’m curious about The First Tycoon. I read Anderson Cooper’s book about the Vanderbilts and it was interesting.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

I found the book in a pile left by a previous pastor and I was like I will take it! 😊

@luv2knit61 6 ай бұрын

You have a lot of interesting books there! My vote would be for the Martin Luther biography. I read it last year and really enjoyed it.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

Such a great author! Thanks for the vote- tallying up by tomorrow for my tbr this weekend- so excited! Thanks for being part 🧡

@deborahc1738 6 ай бұрын

Martin Luther by Eric Metaxas. I have read Bonhoeffer by this author and thought it was well done.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

Yes! Same! And I heard his book Is Atheism Dead is outstanding. Thanks!

@tinaparmer6545 6 ай бұрын

White Fragility is on my TBR and Barack Obama’s A Promised Land has been on my shelf since he was President 🤣. So intimidated by the size. If you read it I will🙌🏻

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

I am thinking Promised Land will be my November Presidential read - did you want to buddy read it or just inspire to do it - that’s a long time on a bookshelf! 🤣

@tinaparmer6545 6 ай бұрын

@@EntertheBook it is a long time 🤪. Maybe inspire to read it and we could buddy read it if both decide to read it. 👏🏻

@lizh9497 6 ай бұрын

Shakespeare by Bill Bryson is great.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

Excellent to know- I did truly enjoy Into the Woods!

@sabrinar7150 6 ай бұрын

The first tycoon, rebel yell, and Martin Luther all sounds interesting and I would love to hear your thoughts on them!

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

I mean very random people all with interesting stories I am sure! I am giggling thinking of a dinner party with them all together at table 🤣

@jenniferdobbs7092 6 ай бұрын

The only I've read is The Fact of a Body. I wasn't into writing reviews when I read it, so I don't think I wrote one. When I unhauled some books, it stayed.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

Yes I kept it based on your review! Thanks 😊

@insearchofwonder 6 ай бұрын

I've not read any of them but my sister read Shakespeare by Bill Bryson and really enjoyed it.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

I really liked his book into the woods so that should be good as well! Thanks!

@Harasezza 6 ай бұрын

I read Bill Bryson's book about Shakespeare several years ago and really enjoyed it (despite the fact that I don't really care for Shakespeare's works in general). Bryson is also my favorite author, so I am biased 😅. I think the book about the child from Sierra Leone would be a really interesting choice as well!

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

I in fact love Shakespeare so I have that going for me as well! And I've actually met the author of Sierra Leone book who is now in his early 30's!

@Harasezza 6 ай бұрын

@EntertheBook Oh, wow! That is so awesome that you met the author 😀

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

@@Harasezza yes he is amazing and has an amazing story worth telling.

@LauraR00 6 ай бұрын

I haven't read any of these, but I'd like to hear your opinion on Heart in a Body in the World.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

Yeah I started that one as a try a chapter and thought I should continue- but I'm curious if I'll get on with it. Now may be the time! HA!

@BernasBookishAdventures 6 ай бұрын

I really like My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk but it is not non fiction and as far I know Snow is also a novel 🤔 I have not read any other but I vote for Mendela 😉

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

Ya know I just now know that 🤣 the only book by Pamuk I read was Istanbul and that was nonfiction so I thought that was what he wrote and here we are with me wrong- not uncommon! I need y’all to help me out! ❤️ thank you! Mandela is a good pick!

@BernasBookishAdventures 6 ай бұрын

He has actually written quite a number of non fiction too but those two are novels.When we read and have so many books, it is quite normal not to know about every book hehe. I had a similiar experience with an audiobook, I was so sure it was a short story collection but it turned out to be a favorite non fiction book.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

@@BernasBookishAdventures yes it does happen to me quite a bit. But that’s ok- part of learning!