Nonfiction Friday is a link-up where you can find all of the awesome nonfiction happenings of the week. Be sure to link-up your nonfiction posts too!
- After finally reading Between the World and Me, I was not at all surprised to see it win the National Book Award for nonfiction.
- Essays in praise of nonfiction never get old for me 🙂
- It’s that time of year, where we start to get lists of the best nonfiction of 2015. I liked this list because it included a lot of new-to-me nonfiction.
- This article about a text book included some fascinating tidbits about the history of nonfiction comics, while this book review addressed the question of how to end a nonfiction book
- Books coming out in the next week include:
- Uninformed: Why People Seem to Know So Little about Politics and What We Can Do about It
- Curtain Up: Agatha Christie: A Life in the Theatre
- Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World
- Buenos Aires: The Biography of a City
- Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
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Laura @ The Buttontapper
Ooh, I am definitely putting “Uninformed” on my to-read list. This kind of thing bothers me every time I go on social media… why DO people pass along such misinformation, and how can we stop it? I look forward to finding some answers!
DoingDewey
Unfortunately, I’m interested in this book as both an observer of political ignorance and someone who knows way too little about politics! I kind of live under a rock and I’d like to do better 🙂
DoingDewey
I’m sure I’m just missing something, but I can’t figure out how to comment on your blog, so I wanted to respond to your post here 🙂
The Santa Claus man sounds like a fascinating read! I love when a book doesn’t just tell the story of an individual, but also the story of an era. The fun facts in this one seem really great too, like the thing about boy scouts carrying weapons as part of their uniform. Very cool!
Lory @ Emerald City Book Review
From the “best of 2015” list, the book about Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl intrigues me because I just read The Boys in the Boat, in which Riefenstahl’s propaganda films are discussed. I’d like to know more about her and Dietrich as well.
DoingDewey
I haven’t yet read The Boys in the Boat or heard of Riefenstahl, but based on the book description, they sound like interesting women that I’d like to learn more about!