Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion

Do you read nonfiction? What sorts of nonfiction do you like? What are some of your recent favorite nonfiction books?

I love nonfiction. I get tired of reading just fiction after a while and need something substantial and real to balance all the made up stuff. My current book is nonfiction, but it is very heavy, about all the violence between Israel and its neighbors, so I'm taking frequent fiction breaks to balance my reading a bit in the opposite direction.

Jamie wrote: "I love nonfiction. I get tired of reading just fiction after a while and need something substantial and real to balance all the made up stuff. My current book is nonfiction, but it is very heavy, a..."
Same here! Last year was a great non-fiction reading year for me, partly because of our offline non-fiction club, where we discuss a book on different topic each month, from biology and history to autobiographies and space. I'll be back with some recommendations :)

I average about 10-12 non-fiction per year. Not many in the big scheme of things & usually for a challenge.

Kate Summerscale’s books are good. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher is a great book.

I’ve started to read more non fiction, but as reading really is my way of relaxing I prefer fiction as real life is non fiction enough for me lol

I have become more interested in non-fiction and particularly like memoirs. Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton and Born a Crime by Trevor Noah are two that have sparked my interest in this genre. Especially listening to Beyond the Wand on audio read by Tom Felton really inspired me to enjoy audio books again.

This second half of the year I am picking up some more nonfiction books. Early in the year and now later in the year I have read some biographies and memoirs.Right now I am reading Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas. Soon I want to read The Serpent Queen by Leonie Frieda to find out a bit more about the Medici family and the royal house of France.

I read mostly non-fiction. One of my recent favorites is Dismantling the Master's Clock about how traditional time supports colonialism.

I love non-fiction. I read non-fiction about Science, History, Psychology, Disability and anything LGBT+.

At the moment I am reading SEE ME ROLLING by Lottie Jackson, which is about disability.

Some of my favourite non-fiction books are Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century edited by Alice Wong, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage by Anne Lamott and anything by Gerald Durrell.