Nonfiction November discussion

Hi everyone!

Let's talk about what's on all of our TBRs for Nonfiction November 2021. I just posted my TBR/Recommendations video this morning (https://youtu.be/FkdSvvxWC68) and I'm dying to hear what all everyone else wants to read!

How many nonfiction books do you want to read in November? Are you taking on the prompts? Do you have a grander theme for your reading in November?

Hi everyone:

I always get very exited about Nonfiction November, and create a TBR that is too big to get to! Here is my tentative TBR for this year, organized (loosely) around the challenge prompts:

1. Collection: On Clowns: The Dictator and The Artist: Essays
2. Industry: Red Plenty
3. Style: Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
4. Treatment: Cross and Kremlin: A Brief History of the Orthodox Church in Russia

All except the second book are under 250 pages, so this year's list might be achievable!

Hi everyone - perennial lurker here. Following if my tentative TBR for the month:

1. “Industry” - BILLION DOLLAR LOSER: THE EPIC RISE AND SPECTACULAR FALL OF ADAM NEUMANN AND WEWORK
2. “Collection” - A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer and more efficient tax system
3. “Style” - WHEN PARIS SIZZLED: THE 1920S PARIS or RED ROSA: A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY OF ROSA LUXEMBURG. This one I am not sure of. I may go with the graphic bio because it’s shorter
4. “Treatment” - THE ROYAL ART OF POISON

Hey everyone!

Here's what I'm thinking of:
1) Collection- The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession (collection of nonfiction stories)
2) Industry- Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants (explores the stories of small-town Chinese restaurant owners across Canada)
3) Treatment- How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child (memoir of a girl who survived a massacre at ten years old in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and then immigrated to the U.S.)

I'm struggling with the style category, so I'll have to give that one some more thought.

Trying to keep my choices to mainly books I already own. Have a couple of options per prompt word with the expectation I'll get to at least one per prompt and if I get to them all then great!

Collection
Disability Visibility - Alice Wong
(collection of essays)

Inside This Place Not of It - Robin Levi & Ayelet Waldman (collection of experiences)

Industry
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
(The sudden growth of the US oil industry at the turn of the century and the situation when one of the largest oil reserves was found on the reservation of the Osage Indian nation. This could also fit 'treatment' due to the focus on the history of Native Americans and their treatment at the hands of the US government and white settlers)

Country of My Skull - Antjie Krog
(industry as in hark work. The huge task undertaken by the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission in South Africa documenting human right violations through over 20,000 statements)

Style
The Curse of Nemur - Ticio Escobar
(interesting narrative style: part field diary, part art critique, and part cultural anthropology. Also a look at a disappearing 'style' of life - the Tomáraho, an indigenous population in Paraguay)

The Spy and the Traitor - Ben MacIntyre
(Link to the prompt is simple - I love Ben MacIntyre's style of writing!)

Treatment
Mongol - Uuganaa Ramsay
(memoir of a Mongolian woman living in Scotland with her son Billy diagnosed with Down's Syndrome. Treatment as in prejudice both against those with a disability, and those labelled 'foreigners')

A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah
(first hand account of a boy soldier in Sierra Leone, treatment both in the way these children were treated and also in the rehabilitation needed in the aftermath)

My Options

Collection: The Collector of Leftover Souls by Eliane Brum & Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller

Industry: The Lady From the Black Lagoon by Mallory O’Meara

Style: Stoned by Aja Raden, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead

Treatment: Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker, The Sun Dies Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton & Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe.

Here's my TBR and the way I chose to interpret the prompts:

1. collection (unusual book collection): The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History

2. industry (movie industry): The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

3. style (dancing style): A Simple Story: Dancing for His Life

4. treatment (treatment of women): The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Great prompts! Some of my considerations"

Collection: Hiking to Siberia: Curious Tales of Travel and Travelers by Lawrence Millman

Industry: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

Style: Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present by Alison Matthews David

Treatment: Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek

I'm super excited for Nonfiction November. This past year I've been reading more and more nonfiction, so my goal is to aim for a 90/10 split in favourite of nonfiction.

On average I read about 20 books a month. Here are 8 that fit the challenges -- I'm leaving myself room to mood read.

Collection
1. The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird by Joshua Hammer (about a thief who services those who COLLECT Peregrine falcons)

2. Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women (a COLLECTION of essays)

Industry
1. Before the Lights Go Out: A Season Inside a Game on the Brink by Sean Fitz-Gerald (about the professional hockey INDUSTRY)

2. Black, White, and the Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant by Mashama Bailey (about a restaurant (INDUSTRY))

Style
1. Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy (about developing your personal STYLE)

2. The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki by Dani Cavallaro (about an animator/artist who's STYLE I really enjoy)

Treatment
1. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park (about the TREATMENT of a woman/girl in North Korea and later as a refugee)

2. Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner Saint by Nadia Bolz-Weber (about a female Christian pastor and how she is TREATED within the faith and church)

I have struggled with these categories this year as some of them don’t really fit my tastes. However I am impressed by how some of you folks think. Very creative interpretations of the categories hehe.

My tbr is always more of a guideline that I rarely stick to. It may change based on which library holds come in during the next few weeks.

Collection:
1. Stuart Tracts 1603-1693 compiled and edited by the Victorian and Edwardian historian C.H. Firth.
2. Spenser's Critics Changing Currents in Literary Taste edited by William R. Mueller
3. The Alexiad by Anna Comnena

Industry:
If any of my books about fashion and WWII for Diore or seamstresses come in time, one of those.
If not then one of Christine de Pizan's nonfiction works because she was the first writer in French literary canon to make a living solely from writing.
Style:
The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
2. Finish reading Surprised by Sin by Stanley Fish
3. Struttin' with Some Barbecue by Patricia Hruby Powell
Treatment:
1. The Imjin War by Hawley
2. Admiral Yi Sun-sin of Korea by Jong-dae Kim

I'm not likely to get to all of these, but I am a whim reader and like to have a wide range of topics and styles to choose from. If I can find something Gunpowder Plot related to read that I haven't read yet, I may add it to the list.

COLLECTION: The Anthropocene Reviewed
INDUSTRY: Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage
STYLE: Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion
TREATMENT: They Called Us Enemy

Alison wrote: "COLLECTION: The Anthropocene Reviewed
INDUSTRY: Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage
STYLE: [book:Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Let..."
They Called Us Enemy was good.

I will have to decide where these fit, but I want to read

1. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
2. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
3. A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
4. The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps

Collection: I loved A Book Bully's idea of Joan Didion's essays in Slouching Towards Bethlehem. I read Play it As It Lays by Didion earlier this year and would like to read more of her writings.

Industry: Here is my opportunity to clear out a book that has been on my shelf for far too long: Steve Jobs and if there is time, I'd love to also read a book previously recommended by Olive: How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

Style: I hope to go to Vienna and would love to see the Lipizzaner horses, so I would like to finally read The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis

Treatment: I bought The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America as soon as it was reviewed by Olive in The Christian Science Monitor. I specifically saved it for Non Fiction November.

Happy reading, all!
Diane

Collection:
Ambrose Bierce - The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary. Book from 1906 that has a bunch of irreverent witticisms, snarky remarks, etc., organized as if an A-Z dictionary.

Industry:
Bill Warren - The Evil Dead Companion. This will be a reread, though I haven't read it in fifteen years. It's about the making of the first three Evil Dead movies, providing a look at how indie horror movies sometimes got made at the time (1981-1991). Seems timely as well, coming right after October.

Style:
Joseph Frank - Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 The third book in a five volume biography of Dostoevsky. For "style" here I'm thinking of Frank's examination of the author's literary style, which may not have the extended depth of books specifically focused on literary analysis, but nonetheless does go beyond simple overview and sometimes provides penetrating insight or corrections to what other critics have said (he particularly challenges certain things Freud said about Dostoevsky)

Treatment:
Kathryn M. Ringrose - The Perfect Servant: Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium I'm thinking "treatment" here in the sense of examining or exploring something: in this case, how people in Byzantium spoke about and treated 'eunuchs,' and what roles they actually had in society/government

I’ve picked one book for each prompt. Hopefully I get through them in November but I’m happy to carry it into December.

Collection - Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons by Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. A collection of experiences and advice from women leaders around the world.

Industry - The Trials of Portnoy: How Penguin brought down Australia’s Censorship System by Patrick Mullens. A look at censorship in the publishing industry.

Style - Fixed it: Violence and the Representation of Women in the Media by Jane Gilmore. A look at the style many news sources use to represent violence against women to minimise men’s accountability and further victimise women.

Treatment - Breath: The New Science if a Lost Art by James Nestor. A look at how small changes in how we breathe can be a treatment for many ills.

Here's my Nonfiction November tbr
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Seven Types of Atheism
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
I'm planning to finish them before 15th December if I can.

I’m choosing non-fiction from my Goodreads TBR list.
1. Industry (as in conscientiousness) The Skeleton Crew by Deborah Halber. It’s about true crime and online amateur detectives.
2. Style - Embrace Your Weird by Felicity Day. About anxiety and creativity.
3. Collection - If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name. Heather Lende’s essay collection about living in Alaska.
4. Treatment - The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale. About the treatment of poltergeist phenomena with observation and experimentation in the 1930s.

Well first off this is my first time participating in NonFiction November. I am not new to nonfiction. It's a genre I read much of. I have fiction books but those are a challenge for me because I find them to be harder reads but I keep them for that reason.

Back to point, I love nonfiction, to say the least. As it was last year I read 62 NF while this year so far I've read 28.

With NonFiction November I've chosen 3 books for each category so I'm looking at 16. I don't expect to get through them all but I like the attempt.

These are the top books I've chosen per category, at least one from each challenge:

1. Collection: The Grand Lady of Yellowstone & Other Yellowstone Wolf Stories

2. Treatment: Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia

3. Industry: World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One

4. Style: The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry

Hey everyone

These are the books I'm planning on reading:

Collection

Make Me Rain by Nikki Giovanni
Black Nerd Problems by William Evans
Stealing the Show by John Barelli
White Magic by Elissa Washuta

Industry

Will by Will Smith
The Breath of a Whale - Leigh Calvez
Buses Are A Comin - Charles Person

Style

Ancient Greece by Thomas R Martin
Max Factor by Fred E Basten
When Brains Dream by Robert Stickgold

Treatment

Lakota America by Pekka Hämäläinen
Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? Horace Greasley
The Sawbones Book by The McElroy's

Industry: The Boys in the Boat & Hidden Figures

Style: It’s a Long Story & The Butchering Art

Treatment: This is Your Mind on Plants & Night

Collection: The Polygamist’s Daughter & The Library Book

COLLECTION: Period: Twelve Voices Tell the Bloody Truth by Macmillan Publishers
An essay collection that raises awareness and demystifies the period in our cultural context.

INDUSTRY: The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz
A big book about the music industry.

STYLE: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
Stephen King has a very distinct style. And the whole book is basically about finding your own style of writing. Been meaning to read this book for some time.

TREATMENT: What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali
A through-discussion of rape culture and the treatment of women who go through such traumatic events.

Collection - Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond The diamond was always the part of collection
Industry - Recollections of a Picture Dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel: Memoir of the First Impressionist Art Dealer - I've got both in one book. The art market like industry.
Style - The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth . The style of his book is unforgettable.
Treatment - Не орите на меня! 8 способов ухода от психологической агрессии + вебинар про манипуляции в подарок I think it exists only in russian Don't yell at me! 8 methods to avoid phsychological agression.

Gillian wrote: "Trying to keep my choices to mainly books I already own. Have a couple of options per prompt word with the expectation I'll get to at least one per prompt and if I get to them all then great!

Coll..."
Thank you for your interpretation of style and the description you gave of The Curse of Nemur. Sounds like a great book.

Has this happened to you? My first read was going to be Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad. My husband went to the library to pick it up at the curbside ( which is a covered entryway. The book was checked out to me for pickup. The book was gone. Someone had taken it. It’s checked out to me. I’m bummed. Also I have to pick another book for treatment.

I don't really have mine sorted but I plan to read The Great Influenza which I tried to get to last year and didn't.
84 Charing Cross Road and a graphic novel: Belonging by Nora Krug.
If for some wild chance I get all those done I have a big list but I usually only get to three NF a year so I doubt I can get to more than three in one month.

Theresa wrote: "I don't really have mine sorted but I plan to read The Great Influenza which I tried to get to last year and didn't.
84 Charing Cross Road and a graphic novel: Belonging by Nora Krug.
If for some ..."
Wow. The Great Influenza and 84 Charing Cross Road are both great. I hope you have a good Nonfiction November.

Audrey wrote: "Theresa wrote: "I don't really have mine sorted but I plan to read The Great Influenza which I tried to get to last year and didn't.
84 Charing Cross Road and a graphic novel: Belonging by Nora Kr..."

Thank you, I am happy with my picks and my whole reading year has been great :) Just some really good books.

here's my initial thoughts:

Collection: The Pacific War Remembered: An Oral History Collection - its an oral history of the war in the pacific told through the eyes of 33 different people
2. Industry: Freedom's Forge: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II - about how US businesses/industry supported the war effort in WW2
3. Style: Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn - Audrey Hepburn was known for her style and grace (although there might also be a Tim Gunn somewhere in my pile)
4. Treatment: Every Day I Fight - about his journey through being treated for cancer; although I also have Misdiagnosed: One Woman's Tour of -And Escape From- Healthcareland on hold at the library - I should get it mid-way through the month

So far I'm planning;
Collection: Chop Suey Nation By Ann Hui. On a road trip across Canada the author realized that almost every small town has a Chinese restaurant, she wants to see why that is. Also discovers that in her childhood her family ran one which she did not realize at the time.

Industry: Furious Hours by Casey Cep. Harper Lee the author of To Kill A Mockingbird wanted to write a true crime book and this looks into the case she was covering about a man who was acquitted of murder even with a ton of witnesses against him.

Style: Blue By Kai Kupferschmidt. Looks into the colour Blue in nature and why it is so rare, as well as why we as humans love this colour and are continually fascinated by it.

Treatment: Medical Downfall of the Tudors by Sylia Soberton. Medical problems seemed to plague the Tudor line, this delves into what they are and how the various conditions may have contributed to the end of the dynasty.
I'm also hoping to get to The Golden Boy of Crime by Jim Brown-the story of a criminal in Canada who was one of the first to try out the parole system, was toured and gave talks about being a reformed criminal, including at police picnics all while continuing to rob banks.

My list for now, subject to change.

Collection:

Collection of Poetry
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration :
of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris Hill
Collection of stories:
The Spirit of New Orleans: and the Characters Who Live There by Christopher Briscoe

Industry:

Prison
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
Farm, Factory
Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret by Duff Wilson
Food
Food Junkies: Recovery from Food Addiction by Vera Tarman
Film
Will by Will Smith


Style:

Pictures and snippets of information
Snippets of New Orleans by Emma Flick

Treatment:

Medical treatment
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Treatment of wives in Polygamy
Favorite Wife: Escape from Polygamy by Susan Ray Schmidt
Race
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo

Hi everyone! My picks are:

1. Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
2. Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
3. The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
4. The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson

I'm hoping to get in two books per category. But here's what's planned so far.

Collection:
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper
Allies by Multiple Authors

Industry:
The Chocolate Wars by Deborah Cadbury
Mother of Invention by Katrine Marçal

Style:
William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary by E.P. Thompson (he's considered the father of modern pattern and design)

Treatment:
Clearing the Plains by James Daschuk
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Eleanor Claghorn

Good luck with your reads everyone!

Amy wrote: "Gillian wrote: "Trying to keep my choices to mainly books I already own. Have a couple of options per prompt word with the expectation I'll get to at least one per prompt and if I get to them all t..."

Thanks Amy, it looks a fascinating read, I'll be sure to share my thoughts once I've finished it.

I think these might be my picks for this year's challenge:

Collection: The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

Industry: The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

Style: Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool

Treatment: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

All of these are on my TBR list. I don't know which one I'm most excited to read! A couple of them fill prompts in other reading challenges I'm doing as well.

My main TBR:

Collection - Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Industry - Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused by Melissa Maerz

Style - Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by Grace Elizabeth Hale

Treatment - From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty

Extra:

American Jezebel by Eve LaPlante

The Unpunished Vice by Edmund White

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön

Hi all!
My main TBR will be:
1. Collection - Yearbook by Seth Rogen
2. Industry - Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
3. Style - Hunger by Roxane Gay
4. Treatment - The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore.

I'd love to pick up some additional non-fiction books as well.

I plan to read:

Collection - Lectures on Landscape

Industry - When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today

Style - The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

Treatment - The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

I feel like The Purity Myth could also stretch to fit the industry prompt, its actually a reread for me but its been years since I read it the first time.

My official list:

Collection: Travels in the Greater Yellowstone ,
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry ,
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021

(travels, poetry, essays)

Industry: Sorry Not Sorry ,
The Secret History of Wonder Woman ,
They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers

(actors/activism, comics, ufo studies)

Treatment: The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground ,
The Library Book ,
Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia ,
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: Critical Thinking in the Age of Bias, Contested Truth, and Disinformation

(land and people, books, xenophobia, literary studies from a professional POV)

Style: Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies ,
The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry ,
Ken Robinson ,
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

(academic studies, poetry studies, creativity-
-bonus: fiction, letters)

Helen wrote: "Hey everyone

These are the books I'm planning on reading:

Collection

Make Me Rain by Nikki Giovanni
Black Nerd Problems by William Evans
Stealing the Show by John Barelli
White Magic by Elissa..."

-Very cool on 'Lakota America'. I have yet to find someone reading an Indigenous book. I have that one and it has taken me a long time to read it because when it comes to history books like that I annotate and make notes in them but I've enjoyed what I've read so far.

Good luck on that one should you decide to go through the reading.

I started my Nonfiction November early. I just finished Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. I didn’t use it for a prompt. I’m starting Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad later today. I will use that for treatment. Here are the other reads I’ve planned for the month.
Collection- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Industry- Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelaine
Style- I have three possibilities but have chosen yet. It will depend on the library.

I have FINALLY decided on the first book I am to read :D

I chose The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets for the INDUSTRY prompt. From little I already know the five girl´s home, where they were being cared for, was turned into a sort of amusement park and they into a show-off monkey of sorts. I believe this qualifies :D

Alenka wrote: "I have FINALLY decided on the first book I am to read :D

I chose The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets for the INDUSTRY prompt. From little I already know the five girl..."

I remember watching a movie about them in the mid-90's I think - it was soo sad

Debbie wrote: "OK, so I was trying to figure out what to read, and today it hit me that I have NINE books open on my currently reading shelf here on Goodreads and EIGHT of them are nonfiction. So I'll be finishin..."

That sounds like my Goodreads currently reading:)

I’m starting with Homesteading. It’s a short little thing of about 130 pages. It doesn’t really follow any of the prompts. I’m about 40 pages in and finding it to be really to my taste.
And thank you guys for recommending The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London and Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X. They are next.

I'm going to start by finishing Pity for the Guy a biography on Guy Fawkes, and Death by Fame a biography of Elisabeth I of Austria.

Just got back from the library with my selections for the prompts.
Collection: The Atlas of Sacred and Spiritual Sites by David Douglas.
Industry: Radium Girls by Kate Moore.
Style: Dress with Sense: The Practical Guide to a Conscious Closet by Redress.
Treatment: Left Boob Gone Rogue by Uzma Yunus, also The Little Book of Forest Bathing, Summerdale Publ.
Really looking forward to all of these!

Treatment: Devil in the Grove (by Gilbert King)

Style: Chop Suey Nation (by Ann Hui)

Collection: In Flanders Fields (a collection of essays)

Industry: Once They Were Hats: in Search of the Mighty Beaver (by Frances Backhouse)

All read by the 20th. I enjoy 'Non-Fiction November' very much. Thank you for another great one!

Hi everyone : )
Im a bit late starting.. my tentative tbr:

*Treatment: by A Mikaberidze The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History An ongoing project (its a tome) im about a third way through & would like to complete the next third this month. Mikaberidzes' treatment of the subject is somewhat different as the title suggests- encompassing the effect on the whole world (a opposed to just Europe), global ramifications & different points of view with regards to key events. Its been a great read so far, wonderful resource/ inspiration for historical fiction writing.

*Collection: by Mary Wollstonecraft. Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and DenmarkWas inspired to read this after reading Romantic Outlaws earlier this year- MW sojourns after stressful events in London & through nature & solitude has her own personal epiphanies..??

*Style: by Alison Weir Elizabeth the Queen ..like her or loathe her (im most partial) she sure had some style.. & swag (politically & personally).

*Industry: by Mary Lovell Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth, 1527-1608Following on from Lizzy (same era) Bess seems to have been a most industrious & formidable woman who rose from humble beginnings to build an empire.
Happy reading everyone : )