Nonfiction November discussion

Hi everyone! It's time to start thinking about our Nonfiction November TBRs, but it can hard to know what to pick. So, do you have any recommendations of nonfiction books that would fit our challenges?

I gave my recommendations over on booktube (https://youtu.be/FkdSvvxWC68), but given how broad these challenges are, there are a ton of books that could satisfy them - my video is just the tip of the iceberg! So tell me: what nonfiction books do you recommend for any or all of the prompts (collection, industry, style, treatment)?

COLLECTION:
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Thick: And Other Essays
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

INDUSTRY:
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Silent Spring
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking

STYLE:
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

TREATMENT:
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas

Collection
The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
Creed or Chaos
Are Women Human
Unpopular Opinions by Dorothy Sayers
God in the Dock by C.S. Lewis
Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'connor
The Debate of the Romance of the Rose

Industry
The Book of Deeds of Arms and Chivalry
The Letters of T.S. Eliot
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
How Star Wars Conquered the Universe
Star Wars on Trial

Style
Empress by Ruby Lal
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan
Interrupted Music The Making of Tolkien's Mythology by Verilyn Flieger
Planet Narnia
The Discarded Image
An Experiment in Criticism
Preface to Paradise Lost
Surprised by Joy
Surprised by Sin

Treatment
Educated
Intended Treason by Paul Durst
God's Secret Agents
The Year of Lear
The Monsters and the Critics
The Mind of the Maker
Engendered by Sam Andreades
Love Thy Body by Nancy Pearcey
The Soul of the Lion

Collection:
A Mind Spread out on the Ground by Alicia Elliot
Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women by
Annabell Abbs
In Their Own Voices by Adeola James
Industry:
Catch & Kill by Ronan Farrow
She Said by Jodi Kantor
Style:
Persist by Elizabeth Warren
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Becoming by Michelle Obama

Treatment: Squirrel Hill by Mark Oppenheimer

Mama Bear by Shirley Smith
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days by Rebecca Donner
Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos by Mark Boren
Across the River by Kent Babb

After shocks by Colin Kahl

Industry:
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
Collections:
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia
Style:
Belonging
The Best We Could Do
Treatment:
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

Collection:
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Gender Euphoria by Laura Kate Dale

Industry:
As You Wish by Cary Elwes

Style:
The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson

Treatment:
A Knock at Midnight by Brittany K Barnett
Inferno by Cather Cho

Svetlana Alexievich - Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster. Could be 'collection' in that it collects together the stories of many people, or 'industry' in that the disaster in industry was the whole reason the book was needed and permeated everything happening in the book, or 'treatment' in that a lot of the book is about how people treated each other in the aftermath

Frederick Douglass - My Bondage and My Freedom. About the 'treatment' Douglass experienced, both as a slave in the mid-19th century U.S. and also after he escaped to freedom.

Industry: Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

Treatment:
Any of the Organ-Conflict-Cure Series by Rosina Sonnenschmidt

My recommendations are up on Booktube, and include books about history, medical error, and The Art of Drag :)

https://youtu.be/AG6wnXhV1rc

I've been wanting to read Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital. That seems like a good title for Treatment. I will also be reading Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik for my reading group. I think that will be a good one for Style (the French style of living?)

These are the books I have on my list and they sounded pretty interesting especially with the genres that they are.

[1. Collection]

The Grand Lady of Yellowstone by Brad A. Bulin and Carolyn Bulin
(Wolf Stories-Nature)

Voices From the Pandemic by by Eli Saslow
(Various Stories- General)

The Redemption of Wolf 302 by Rick MacEntyre
(Part 3 of Trilogy- Nature)
*****

[2. Industry]

World War C by by Sanjay Gupta M.D
(Medical)

The Teacher Wars by by Dana Goldstein
(Education)

Leave Only Footprints by Conor Knighton
(National Parks)
*****

[3. Style]

The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton Morgan
(Biography)

The Freedom Writer's Diary
(Journals)

21st Century American Poetry
(Poetry)
*****
[4. Treatment]

Of Fear and Strangers by George Makari
(Xenophobia)

Call Me Indian by Fred Sasakamoose
(Boarding Schools)

When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Cullors and asha bandele
(BPOC)

Any suggestions on which prompt I can use Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner on?

I'm planning to read these books for nonfiction november:
collection:
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
industry:
Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression and Pain
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
style:
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
treatment:
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Contentious Kwangju: The May 18 Uprising in Korea's Past and Present
this one doesn't fit the prompts but I highly recommend it:
One Left

Sherri wrote: "Any suggestions on which prompt I can use Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner on?"

Treatment maybe - it says its focused around losing her mom to cancer I'm sure her treatment will likely be described

I highly recommend the following nonfiction book: It’s a long book but an easy book to stop and start while retaining the narrative thread:

Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
by Mary Gabriel

My take: Astonishingly well organized and well researched study on the women in the abstract art world in New York City that you hardly hear about. In nice chunks of information interlaced with artists writings and memoirs from the 1930s to the 1960s. done in loose chronological order.

Collection:
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies (a collection of questions asked by children about death)

Industry:
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Paper: Paging Through History
Salt: A World History

Style:
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South (History of Southern "style" cooking)

Treatment:
We Should All Be Feminists

Hi friends, I listen to non-fiction audiobooks almost exclusively and I host a podcast, Audiobooks in Five Minutes, that features only the very best (4 or 5 star recommendations) of my latest listens. I post my reviews weekly on Goodreads and you can listen to podcast reviews on all major podcast platforms as well as https://podcast.jannastam.com/

My favourite topics include culture, ideas, history, and communication, although I'm not sure these would fit into the challenge categories, so I'll leave that for you to decide!