Nonfiction Friday is a link-up where you can find all of the awesome nonfiction happenings of the week. As a reminder, if you’re participating in the Nonfiction Reading Challenge, you’ll get a giveaway entry for each nonfiction review you link-up below!
- For anyone who’s been following along with The Rooster’s Nonfiction Pop-Up memoir discussions, they have an interesting wrap-up conversation posted now as well.
- It sounds like Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, has a new book in the works.
- John Lewis’s March has won a National Book Award – well deserved, from what I’ve heard – and is the first comic book/graphic work of nonfiction to receive this award.
- Nonfiction to get excited about in the next week includes:
- Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
- The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
- Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors
- Outside the Jukebox: How I Turned My Vintage Music Obsession Into My Dream Gig
- Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
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whatsnonfiction
Excited for Rebecca Skloot’s book! Also really interesting to hear how she came to write Henrietta Lacks.
DoingDewey
I enjoyed the interview too! I always like hearing how authors become interested in a particular topic 🙂
Angela
The Royal Art of Poison sounds really good, actually! Lots of interesting angles.
DoingDewey
I’ve read at least two books involving poison and the early criminal justice system, so I’m not sure I can pick up any more. My mom and my husband already give me a hard time about it, haha.
NancyElin
What happened when I read Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch during the French Tennis open?
joAnn @ Lakeside Musing
Very happy to hear Skloot has another book in the works!
DoingDewey
Honestly, I didn’t love Henrietta Lacks nearly as much as everyone else seems to have, but I am still interested to see what Skloot comes up with next 🙂
Jenny @ Reading the End
Whoa, I didn’t know the Rooster did things other than the Tournament of Books, but that’s awesome! I’ll have to check it out. They talked about Educated! I am obsessed with Educated! Like to the point where I have talked about it too much to too many people and my loved ones are tired of hearing about it. So yay, an outlet for my feelings!
DoingDewey
It sounds like this a new thing for them, but I really enjoyed it! I’d love to see them do a nonfiction-focused tournament of books. If they don’t, I’d be tempted to try to organize one myself. In fact, I can’t believe I didn’t think of that until I was writing this comment, but I really like that idea!
Liz Dexter
I’ve just requested Outside the Jukebox from NetGalley so thank you for highlightint that one!
I’ve had a good non-fiction week myself, finishing Paul Theroux’s “Deep South” (self-explanatory) and William Sitwell’s “Eggs or Anarchy”, about the Minister for Food in WW2 Britain. Both great books.
DoingDewey
It occurred to me that Outside the Jukebox might interest you when I put it on the list! I was actually more interested in it because your reviews of books about music made me realize how little I know about music or the culture around music, even though I love listening to it.
I’m glad this week was a good week for nonfiction for you 🙂
Joy Weese Moll
I loved March. Moved to tears at one point — how does that happen from a comic book?!
DoingDewey
That is really impressive! That’s a sign of really well done comic, I think 🙂