RECOMMEND A BOOK - Non-Fiction Thread (book club 2021)

[ufcasey]

Please add your recommendations here for Book Club reads in 2021. Things you need to include:
- Title of the book
- Book author
- Book genre

Some books cross multiple genres, so try to just pick the predominant one from these options:

• General Non-Fiction
• History/Biography
• Humor
• Memoir/Autobiography

It doesn't matter when the book was published, so feel free to recommend any book you like!

I'll let people recommend books between now and 12:01am EST Monday, December 14. Feel free to come back and recommend more books as you think of them, you don't have to recommend all your books at once.

[Vespasia]

What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha about the Flint water crisis. - General non-fiction?
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh (or maybe Hyperbole and a Half, which I haven't read) - Humor/memoir

[minzy]

Totally agree with What the Eyes Don’t See. I will think on this some more.

[dontlook]

Eleanor by David Michaelis: biography/politics

[meowmaps]

Dec 7, 2020 13:41:20 GMT -5 dontlook said:

Eleanor by David Michaelis: biography/politics

Yes!  This is on my list.

[meowmaps]

A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper General Non-Fiction (I think this is being turned into a documentary film)

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne History/Biography

The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner General Non-Fiction/Philosophy

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown History

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore History (I know I'm behind on this one but it's on my list)

Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey from World War I Warsaw and My Quest to Follow by Deborah Tannen Memoir

We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter General Nonfiction/Politics

I should probably stop there! I loved What the Eyes Don't See but I read it last year.

[Vespasia]

Dec 7, 2020 14:21:48 GMT -5 meowmaps said:

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore History (I know I'm behind on this one but it's on my list)

I will second this one because I have been wanting to read it.

[minzy]

Dec 7, 2020 15:25:41 GMT -5 Vespasia said:

Dec 7, 2020 14:21:48 GMT -5 meowmaps said:

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore History (I know I'm behind on this one but it's on my list)

I will second this one because I have been wanting to read it.

This is such a solid pick that we read it nearly three years ago. 🤣 Definitely a good one, though!
pandce.proboards.com/thread/595315/radium-girls-book-club-discussion

[meowmaps]

Dec 7, 2020 17:46:04 GMT -5 minzy said:

Dec 7, 2020 15:25:41 GMT -5 Vespasia said:

I will second this one because I have been wanting to read it.

This is such a solid pick that we read it nearly three years ago. 🤣 Definitely a good one, though!
pandce.proboards.com/thread/595315/radium-girls-book-club-discussion

I don’t think I was participating then so I get a pass

[tacokick]

Dec 7, 2020 12:17:48 GMT -5 ufcasey said:

Please add your recommendations here for Book Club reads in 2021. Things you need to include:
- Title of the book
- Book author
- Book genre

Some books cross multiple genres, so try to just pick the predominant one from these options:

• General Non-Fiction
• History/Biography
• Humor
• Memoir/Autobiography

It doesn't matter when the book was published, so feel free to recommend any book you like!

I'll let people recommend books between now and 12:01am EST Monday, December 14. Feel free to come back and recommend more books as you think of them, you don't have to recommend all your books at once.

Memoir—Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

[tacokick]

Dec 7, 2020 12:17:48 GMT -5 ufcasey said:

Please add your recommendations here for Book Club reads in 2021. Things you need to include:
- Title of the book
- Book author
- Book genre

Some books cross multiple genres, so try to just pick the predominant one from these options:

• General Non-Fiction
• History/Biography
• Humor
• Memoir/Autobiography

It doesn't matter when the book was published, so feel free to recommend any book you like!

I'll let people recommend books between now and 12:01am EST Monday, December 14. Feel free to come back and recommend more books as you think of them, you don't have to recommend all your books at once.

Memoir—Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

[travella]

Dec 7, 2020 17:46:04 GMT -5 minzy said:

Dec 7, 2020 15:25:41 GMT -5 Vespasia said:

I will second this one because I have been wanting to read it.

This is such a solid pick that we read it nearly three years ago. 🤣 Definitely a good one, though!
pandce.proboards.com/thread/595315/radium-girls-book-club-discussion

I was thinking that I had read this book for a book club. It was a good book though.

[mrspez07]

I’m picking things I have yet to read but are rated highly on my list:

A Black Woman’s History of the United States by Diana Ramey Berry, History category

Leave Only Footprints: by Conor Knighton, General non-fiction, Travel category?

Madam Fourcade’s Secret War: by Lynn Olson, History category

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: by Dee Brown, History Category

[meowmaps]

Dec 7, 2020 21:19:49 GMT -5 mrspez07 said:

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: by Dee Brown, History Category

This is on my list too!

[wesleycrusher]

mrspez07 meowmaps I read (well, listened to) the audiobook of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee earlier this year. It was excellent- the only "negative" is that months later, it's hard to remember specifics, but only because every story is heartbreakingly similar.

[minzy]

I haven’t read it yet, but based on the strength of The Warmth of Other Suns (which is excellent), I’d like to nominate Caste - The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson.

[meowmaps]

Dec 8, 2020 12:30:00 GMT -5 minzy said:

I haven’t read it yet, but based on the strength of The Warmth of Other Suns (which is excellent), I’d like to nominate Caste - The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson.

I read Caste a few months ago and it was amazing, as you’d imagine. Now I’d like to go back and read The Warmth of Other Suns. Caste would be perfect for book club but it might require multiple sessions or an ongoing discussion. There’s a lot to analyze. I think Oprah did several podcasts on it and then had two 45 minute shows with Isabel Wilkerson on Apple TV.

ETA: I watched the shows but haven’t gotten to the podcasts.

[travella]

On my to read list is:

When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann (non fiction)

[meowmaps]

Dec 8, 2020 15:29:25 GMT -5 travella said:

On my to read list is:

When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann (non fiction)

I loved that! 

[tcu2003]

World of Wonder: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathill, general nonfiction (collection of nonfiction essays)

No Time like the Future by Michael J Fox, autobiography

A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost, autobiography

A Life on our Planet by David Attenborough, general nonfiction

[ufcasey]

Here are some books I have read that I think would be good for book club:

A Promised Land by Obama (memoir)
Just Mercy by Stevenson (general non-fiction/memoir)
Being Mortal by Gawande (general non-fiction/memoir)
Rena's Promise by Gellisen (memoir)
Nothing to Envy by Demick (general non-fiction)
Hidden Valley Road by Kolker (memoir)
The Sound of Gravel by Wariner (memoir)

[AJL]

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Genre - memoir

I'm generally not a memoir fan, but I'm listening to this book right now and it's so engaging! It's read by McConaughey, so I think that helps a lot. It's funny, poignant, intelligent, and really relatable.