My year in nonfiction + Nonfiction November TBR!

Hello everyone, hope you had a lovely weekend, and welcome back to my blog! After a lovely reading month of October I browsed through my Goodreads read list of my year and I decided that I need to read more nonfiction books. I have plenty of them piling up in my shelf and in my Kindle – so why not make use of the lovely event of Nonfiction November to read more nonfiction books!

This month-long celebration of reading, writing, and discussing about nonfiction reads is hosted by the lovely people at What’s Nonfiction; Sophisticated Dorkiness; Sarah’s Book Shelves; JulzReads; and Doing Dewey. As a person who mainly reads fiction, I probably won’t be participating in many of the prompts or posting schedules – I’m just gonna focus on myself reading more nonfiction this month.

My year in nonfiction books

As can be seen in my 2018 Reading Log, only 14% of the books I’ve read this year are nonfiction – I have only read five books that are not fiction this year! That’s not a very good statistic, and I plan on changing that though we are already at the end of the year.

In my 2018 Reading Goals I planned on reading a nonfiction book every other month. Considering that goal I might say that I am on track since I would only have to read 6 nonfiction books in a year. But I feel like in the past three months I have not been reading many of them and I have read lots of them in the beginning of the year because I listened to them on audiobooks.

I must say my favourite nonfiction book I read in 2018 is The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, a beautiful memoir that insightfully gives us a view on a different lifestyle and family life of our writer. Other than that I found myself loving memoirs and biographies all my life, but I also occasionally pick up sub-genres like science and history about topics I’m interested in.

Some of my recommendations

To read this month

I made a list of some books that are readily available to me that I might pick up this month (some of them rereads!). I got a little out of control – this list is pretty extensive, so I will not go into them all one by one. However there are some main books that I definitely will pick up this month.

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell

This is a memoir that has been highly recommended by many people on the internet, and a book I already started back in October. With a unique title and beautiful writing, I am sure this will be one of the best books I’ve read this month.

How to Live Like Your Cat by Stéphane Garnier

I love cats, so when my housemate got me this I was ecstatic. This is a short, cute book that I don’t know much about. But I know I will love it, because it has cats!!!

Blue Nights by Joan Didion

I’ve heard amazing things about Joan Didion, and although she has a lot of amazing works that people highly recommend, I decided to choose this one that I hope I can pick up this month because it is the only ebook I have in my Kindle from her. Again, I know nothing about it but I’m eager to give her a go.

Some of the other nonfiction in my TBR pile:

I think three books in the TBR for the month is pretty okay, considering I might probably want to pick up a fiction novel in between as well. However I know I am a mood reader so this TBR might change and I might pick up other books in the list if I’m more in the mood for it.

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🍄A stack of nonfiction books, and one fantasy thrown in for my TBR this month of #NonfictionNovember 🙌😬🦑 . Who else is excited for the weekend and to get some nonfiction reading done?? 💞

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Are you participating in Nonfiction November? What are your ultimate favourite nonfiction books of all time? Let me know in the comments and I’ll see you in another post!

 

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