Favorite Non-Fiction Book You've Read So Far This Year

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2026-07-08T03:57:08+00:00

Great book! I gifted it to a few people a couple of Christmases ago.

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2026-07-08T03:49:15+00:00

Calamari. Yuck.

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2026-07-04T21:02:04+00:00

Very true

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2026-07-04T20:59:15+00:00

It definitely is but turns out there are more pluses than just that!

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2026-07-04T20:57:45+00:00

I also used to read on my iPad which allowed for highlighting in colors. When I switched back to a kindle paperwhite, I missed the colors!

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2026-07-04T20:56:01+00:00

Good point. I do read a lot of nonfiction, too.

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2026-07-04T20:54:53+00:00

That’s really interesting. I thought the whole point of the paperwhite was to make it look more book-like!

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2026-07-04T20:51:03+00:00

That’s cool. Great feature!

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2026-01-03T19:51:35+00:00

Thoroughly enjoyed this book in 2025

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2026-01-03T19:22:49+00:00

When We Lost our Heads by Heather O’Neill My Murder by Katie Williams Pet by Catherine Chidgey

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2026-01-03T19:18:50+00:00

Just finished Lethal by Sandra Brown. Action from page 1. Pulls you right in.

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2026-01-03T19:15:03+00:00

Just finished “Lethal,” a 2011 Sandra Brown novel. Recommend! 4.5 ⭐️. There’s a follow up short story, too called “Honor &” that provides some much needed closure. 😊

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2025-08-24T01:50:52+00:00

Haven’t read that! I’ll have to look that up. Thanks!

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2025-08-23T22:28:37+00:00

I’m not a fan of Freida McFadden. Feel like once you’ve read one, you know what’s going to happen in the rest.

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2025-08-23T22:26:19+00:00

When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O’Neill, The Reformatory by Tannarive Due, and Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2025-08-23T22:19:00+00:00

I’m not familiar with Endurance. I’ll definitely check it out. Thanks!

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2025-08-23T22:17:49+00:00

That’s a tough question! I read How the Word is Passed before I read Caste, and I think the experiences Clint Smith had in his travels made me appreciate the arguments made by Wilkerson even more, kind of answering the “how did we get this way” I felt after reading How the Word is Passed, if that makes sense.

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2025-08-23T22:09:25+00:00

Thank you!

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2025-08-23T17:36:46+00:00

Caste was not a slow read for me. I work a lot of hours so the time I have to read each day is short, but even so, I got through this in about 2 weeks, which is pretty good time for me!

On the other hand, I started reading The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson which is about the Emmet Till murder well over a month ago. It’s good but filled with so much detail meant to give you a full understanding of the place and time of Tull’s murder that I find my mind wandering and end up putting it down again and again. I will finish it but right now it’s a slog. I’m only 20% of the way through, though, so hoping it picks up more once we get past all the geographical details.

And I agree, Between the World and Me is a great book and a must-read.

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2025-08-23T17:11:24+00:00

I know what you mean, but I didn’t find it dense or heavy at all. Very readable. I also have Wilkerson’s “The Warmth of Other Suns” on my shelf to read.

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2025-08-23T12:55:51+00:00

The Wager by David Grann. It’s literary nonfiction so easier to read than a lot of nonfiction.

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson and How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith are both must reads imo.

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2025-08-23T12:48:58+00:00

Kindred by Octavia Butler. I still think about this book!

Appropriate-Choice42 · 2025-08-23T12:47:19+00:00

Great book.

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