Book Club - Nonfiction books

[ufcasey]

If you have a nonfiction book we have not read yet as part of Book Club (check here), that you think might be a good choice for 2022, please list it here! It doesn't have to be a book you have already read yourself and it doesn't even have to be a book that is already published (it just needs to be published by the end of 2022). I'll later make a poll out of the recommendations from this thread and the ones with the most votes will be included in next year's monthly book club picks.

[ufcasey]

I might come back to this to edit it to add more, but here's some ones that I think might be good:


Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz by Rena Gelissen
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbar Demick
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Stevenson
She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Smarsh
The Sound of Gravel by Wariner
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Kolker

[travella]

Suggestions:
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede

[meowmaps]

Traditional non-fiction:

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe


Memoir:

Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron
Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds by Huma Abedin

[dontlook]

I haven’t read these. They are recommendation from my local library:

Black. Queer. Southern. Women. By Patrick Johnson
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
Luck girl by Mei-Ling Hopgood

[dontlook]

Adding more:
Will by Will Smith- memoir
What happened to you by Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey- self help
Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe- history/memoir

[abs]

dontlook Will is on my to read list as well. I don’t love non fiction generally but every now and then a memoir like this comes along that I have to read.

[dontlook]

Dec 20, 2021 20:55:19 GMT -5 abs said:

dontlook Will is on my to read list as well. I don’t love non fiction generally but every now and then a memoir like this comes along that I have to read.

I’m waiting for the audiobook. I often find I enjoy that format for memoirs. I hope it’s good!

[charlatti]

Lots of great ideas in this thread! Adding two:

How the Other Half Eats (food and class in America): www.goodreads.com/book/show/57007694-how-the-other-half-eats

The Inequality Machine (college admissions and privilege): www.goodreads.com/book/show/48930323-the-inequality-machine

[minzy]

All We Can Save
bookshop.org/books/all-we-can-save-truth-courage-and-solutions-for-the-climate-crisis/9780593237083

[aurora]

I don't usually seek out graphic books but thought these two looked interesting when they came up on a recommendation list:

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

They Called Us the Enemy by George Takei


I really liked the previous science book by these authors and assume this one will be good, too:

Cham, Jorge and Daniel Whiteson - Frequently Asked Questions About the Universe

[ufcasey]

Last call for suggesting books - I'll probably be putting up a poll tonight/tomorrow for people to vote on the books listed in this thread. Thanks!

[tcu2003]

Dec 20, 2021 20:50:41 GMT -5 dontlook said:

Adding more:
Will by Will Smith- memoir
What happened to you by Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey- self help
Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe- history/memoir

Vanderbilt is also on my to-read list. And now I’m good be to add Will to it.

I read What Happened to You last month. It was okay - I learned a few things, but the format of the book was not my style.

[tcu2003]

These are on my to-read list:

The End of Bias by Jessica Nordell
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
Yearbook by Seth Rogen
The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope

[dove]

+1 for what happened to you by Oprah and Dr. Bruce Perry
Dressmakers of Auschwitz by Lucy Adlington
How the Other Half Eats is on my to read list after I heard about it on the Code Switch podcast