#NonficNov
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As every year, a bunch of really cool bloggers are co-hosting Nonfiction November.
Here is the topic for Week 1 (Nov. 2-6):
YOUR YEAR IN NONFICTION
Hosted by JLeann of Shelf Aware
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 November?
Here is the recap of the nonfiction I have read (the links will send you to my review when it’s posted).
So far, I have read or listened to 28 nonfiction, which is already 9% more than last year (I read 23 nonfiction in 2019).
And I plan to read at least 4 more before the end of the year.
Here are the titles:
Bible and religious books:
- The Book of Genesis
- The Book of Exodus
- The Book of Leviticus
- The Book of Numbers
- The Book of Deuteronomy
- he Book of Joshua
- The Book of Judges
- The Book of Ruth
- The First & Second Book of Samuel
- The First & Second Book of Kings
- The 1st & 2nd Book of Chronicles
- The Book of Nehemiah – all the above are audio, for The Classics Club
- Theological Territories: a David Bentley Hart Digest, by David Bentley Hart- ebook
- On The Ecclesiastical Mystagogy, by Saint Maximus the Confessor
- The Church, the Litany, and the Soul of Man, by Saint Maximus the Confessor
- Le petit livre de la vie réussie, by Anselm Grün
About Thoreau:
- Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau – ebook, for The Classics Club
- Bob Pepperman Taylor, Lessons from Walden – ebook
About nature:
- La Panthère des neiges, by Sylvain Tesson – French audiobook
- Vesper Flights, by Helen McDonald – audiobook
About history:
- Berezina, by Sylvain Tesson – French audiobook
- Marie Antoinette’s World, by Will Bashor- ebook for France Book Tours
About Japan:
- The Book of Tea, by Kakuzo Okakura – for The Classics Club
- The Book of Ichigo Ichie, by Héctor Garcia
On contemporary issues:
- On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder
- L’Humanité en péril, by Fred Vargas – French audiobook, on the urgent need to save our planet!
Graphic “novel” about books:
- I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf, by Grant Snider
I also reviewed 21 books published by Rockridge Press, but I didn’t read these books from A to Z as I would read other books, so I didn’t count them in my statistics.
So really, this was a huge nonfiction year for me.
I’m very happy for the diversity of topics as well.
Besides, I’m glad I did a good dent in my project to listen to each book of the Bible, a nice way of revisiting it all.
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What was your favorite nonfiction read of the year?
I had to choose two.
If you click on the left cover, you can see its English edition.
The other one has not been translated
What nonfiction book
have you recommended the most?
Do you have a particular topic
you’ve been attracted to more this year?
Besides religious topics, not really
What are you hoping to get out
of participating in Nonfiction November?
As usual, to get acquainted with more nonfiction readers
and find good titles unknown to me.
WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE NONFICTION THIS YEAR?
Words And Peace 
Congrats on reading so much nonfiction this year! I think mine has been down from last year.
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Listening to the Bible has definitely helped these numbers
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It looks like you had a great year in non-fiction! Marie Antoinette’s World sounds interesting, as well as books about Japan.
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Yes, the books by Bashor on Marie-Antoinette are all good
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Much of the nonfiction I read this year so far is biography or memoir. I was enlightened about James Baldwin’s struggles and achievements in the biography of him by David Leeming. For the rest of the year I will be working on The Age of Faith by Will Durant. It is 1086 pp so I will most likely still be reading it in 2021!
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Fascinating. Yes, Durant is a massive one! A member of my book club recently reported on it
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That’s a lot of Bible!
I’m about half way through Vesper Flights and I think it will move onto my most recommended list by the end too.
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well, I wanted to reread the Bible, so suddenly I thought listening to it would be a nice experience. I hope to be done in 2021. Yes Vespers Flights is so good
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Waow, you did great !
I have the book by Fred Vargas on my shelf (it’s staring at me at this moment !) ever since it’s been published – I even offered it to my sister who’s a fan, too. But I haven’t read it yet, which is why it’s staring at me judgementally. But I’ll get to it soon.
My favourite non-fiction was definitely The five by Hallie Rubenhold (who really were the victims of Jack the Ripper, the facts are quite different from the legend).
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Oh you so need to read L’Humanité en péril. Though if you have access to the audiobook, even better. It’s narrated by Blandine Bellavoir, brilliant!: https://www.estories.com/audiobook/309347/Fred-Vargas/Lhumanit-en-pril This site estories.com has all the latest French audiobooks, and it’s much cheaper then audible
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Such a varied list of non-fiction books. I’ve just started with my Non-fiction November and will write about it next week.
It’s the Capital by Karl Marx for me.
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wow, that’s a tough one. The only nonfiction I’m reading right now is a spiritual book: a 19th century Russian commentary on Psalm 118, my favorite
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Not as tough as you might think. I have a professional background in commerce and had to learn a lot of what he talks about already. At least the first 150 pages are nothing new for me. After that, we’ll see.
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Good to know!
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I will report about it. As they always say in the media “watch my space”. LOL
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lol
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Discovering Sylvain Tesson was one of my highlights last year. I can’t wait for his latest to be translated, I hope soon.
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Yes, he’s incredible. I have read several of them, and loved them all
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Same!
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A good year of reading! I had some great ones this year and Slay in Your Lane was my favourite, so far. Happy Nonfiction November!
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Thanks, I’m actually attracted by Rewild Yourself
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I read a Bible chapter a day so I’ve read many of its books too. Keeps me grounded. Vesper Flights looks very familiar.
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Nice Biblical project. I also read passages very day, but not in order, so sometimes it’s good to read a book as a whole
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That is quite an interesting variety of nonfiction books. It is so great when one finds an interesting topic and can pursue it by reading about it. As you saw from my post, I am mostly into history, but made an effort this year to vary myself a little bit.
Good luck with the rest of the month.
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Sounds like a great balance
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Well done! I read a lot more than I reviewed – mostly nutritional topics. I think H is for Hawk was the most important nonfic read for me this year. I also loved Come, Tell me How You Live by Agatha Christie Mallowan. To Sir With Love was an excellent read, too.
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Same problem here, always behind in reviewing… I highly recommend Vesper Flights, the latest by Helen MacDonald, even better than H is for Hawk, I thought: https://wordsandpeace.com/2020/10/20/book-review-vesper-flights/ Thanks for sharing these 2 other books, am going to check them out. UPDATE: just added the Agatha Christie books to my list!! Thanks
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