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!
- The latest addition to The Guardian‘s list of the top 100 nonfiction books is Dispatches, which honestly doesn’t interest me much as it’s a war story, despite it’s obvious historical importance.
- These 11 fascinating nonfiction science books are more my speed!
- Although I appreciate this passionate defense of nonfiction being interesting, I think the jab at the fleeting benefits of fiction is unnecessary.
- This article about the legal and ethical concerns memoirists must consider when writing about others made me think about an aspect of nonfiction writing that hadn’t occurred to me before.
- Exciting nonfiction that’s coming out in the next week includes:
- First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies
- Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter
- One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives
- 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence
- The Lost Book of Moses: The Quest for the World’s Oldest Bible–and the Man Who Wrote It
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Bina
First Women is such an intriguing title, I will have to take a look. Also, definitely checking out the non-fiction science book list 🙂 I’m looking at the body and cultural history in my non-fiction post.
DoingDewey
I really enjoyed The Residence by the same author, so I’m particularly excited to check that out 🙂 Thanks for sharing your review!
Valorie Grace Hallinan
Can’t wait to read 67 Shots. Today I wrote about the fabulous memoir, When Breath Becomes Air. http://wp.me/p28JYl-2r6
DoingDewey
I don’t know much about Kent State, so I’d be very interested to learn more. I’ve generally heard great things about When Breath Becomes Air and I’m excited to read your review.
Heather
I’m interested in 67 shots since I live near Kent State now. I had a hard time when I moved here actually thinking of it as a real college and not a historical event.
DoingDewey
How interesting! I always enjoy reading books that relate to somewhere I’ve been or lived.
Laurie C
Great list of links, although I couldn’t get the link to the passionate defense of nonfiction to work. Will try again later. I especially liked the list of 11 science books, and haven’t read any of them!
DoingDewey
The defense of nonfiction one seems to be working for me now if you wanted to try it again 🙂
I’ve read only three of the science nonfiction books (Packing for Mars, Genome, and The Botany of Desire) but they all look good to me.
Jenny @ Reading the End
Oh, the thing about memoirists was interesting. I always wonder that when I’m reading memoirs, which is one reason I rarely do anymore — I get too anxious on behalf of their family members.
DoingDewey
I don’t usually think about this when reading a memoir, but I am glad I’ve never been included in someone else’s! It seems like it could be very awkward.
Kim @Time2Read
I added First Women to my list last week. It looks really good. I already have 2 books about Kathleen Kennedy on my TBR. Seems like she is a hot topic for books the last couple of years.
DoingDewey
I really enjoyed The Residence by the same author, so I’m sure it will be 🙂 I always wonder when I see a couple of books about the same person published around the same time if it’s an anniversary of their death or birth or something like that.
Brona
I’ve finally finished one of the non-fiction books I’ve been reading all year! Like Valorie it is When Breath becomes Air.
DoingDewey
How exciting! I’ve heard good things about that one.