Nonfiction November: My Year in Nonfiction (So Far)

Nonfiction November is hosted this year by Julie (JulzReads), Sarah (Sarah’s Book Shelves), Katie (Doing Dewey), Rennie (What’s Nonfiction) — is a month-long celebration of everything nonfiction. Each week, they’ll be a different prompt and a different host looking at different ideas about reading and loving nonfiction.

Week 1 (Oct. 28 to Nov. 1)

Your Year in Nonfiction So Far (Hosted by Julie at Julz Reads)
Take a look back at your year of nonfiction and reflect on the following questions – What was your favorite nonfiction read of the year? Do you have a particular topic you’ve been attracted to more this year? What nonfiction book have you recommended the most? What are you hoping to get out of participating in Nonfiction November?

What have been my favorite reads so far this year?

A Bite-Sized History of France: Delicious Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment

Paris Sweets: Great Desserts from the City's Best Pastry Shops by Dorie Greenspan

Eiffel's Tower for Young People: The Story of the 1889 World's Fair by Jill Jonnes

Yoga for Everyone: 50 Poses for Every Type of Body by Dianne Bondy

Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People by Bob Goff

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey by A. J. Jacobs

Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse by Timothy P. Carney

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben

North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring by Bruce M. Beehler
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk by Josh Katz

Barefoot Books Children of the World

Our Flag Was Still There: The True Story of Mary Pickersgill and the Star-Spangled Banner
Carter Reads the Newspaper by Deborah Hopkinson

I've read 77 nonfiction books out of 339 books so far this year. 

I classified each book by themes and then charted the results.

Here's a list of all the nonfiction I've read since last Nonfiction November:

title	author
Barefoot Books World Atlas	Crane, Nick
Incredible Dinosaur Facts(Dino-Sphere)	Owen, Ruth
Thanks A Thousand: A Gratitude Journey	Jacobs, A.J.
The Whaleship Essex: The True Story of Moby Dick	Fine, Jil
Birds, Beasts and Relatives(Corfu Trilogy #2)	Durrell, Gerald
Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris	Mah, Ann*
Butterflies in Room 6: See How They Grow	Arnold, Caroline
Deadly Spider Bite!	Blake, Kevin
Sinister Savannah	Merwin, E.*
Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World	Golio, Gary
I Look Up To... Ruth Bader Ginsburg	Membrino, Anna
Smithsonian Kids A Walk in the Forest: Wheel of Wonder Interactive Board Book	Garnett, Jaye
American Wolf	Blakeslee, Nate
The Library Book	Orlean, Susan*
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life	Kabat-Zinn, Jon
The Cook's Atelier: Recipes, Techniques, and Stories from Our French Cooking School	Taylor, Marjorie
Yellowstone: A Journey through America's Wild Heart	Quammen, David*
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout	Connors, Philip
Creating Sanctuary: Sacred Garden Spaces, Plant-Based Medicine, and Daily Practices to Achieve Happiness and Well-Being	Bloom, Jessi
The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir	Wariner, Ruth*
A Yellowstone Savage: Life in Nature's Wonderland	Lohse, Joyce B.*
A Mile Above Texas	Sauceda, Jay B
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List	Mustich, James*
Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness	Li, Qing
Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany	Mount, Jane*
How to Bake	Hollywood, Paul
The Genius of Birds	Ackerman, Jennifer
Paul Hollywood's Bread	Hollywood, Paul
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life	Bogel, Anne*
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World	Wohlleben, Peter
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World	Frankopan, Peter
The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife	Cooke, Lucy
A Year in Paris: Season by Season in the City of Light	Baxter, John
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition	Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
Are We French Yet? Keith & Val's Adventures in Provence	Van Sickle, Keith*
I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero	Meltzer, Brad*
Cozy Minimalist Home: More Style, Less Stuff	Smith, Myquillyn
Brown Girl Dreaming	Woodson, Jacqueline*
Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride	Knisley, Lucy*
Butter Tea at Sunrise: A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya	Das, Britta
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living	Chödrön, Pema
Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple	Nonomura, Kaoru
The Easy 5 Ingredient Slow Cooker Cookbook	Petersen, Karen Bellessa
We Inspire Me: Cultivate Your Creative Crew to Work, Play, and Make	Pippins, Andrea
The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border	Cantú, Francisco
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions	Luiselli, Valeria
The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks	Ward, Benedicta
Carter Reads the Newspaper	Hopkinson, Deborah*
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years	Guisewite, Cathy
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes	Rutherford, Adam
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive	Land, Stephanie*
Eerie Parks and Playgrounds	Markovics, Joyce
North American Pirates and Their Lost Treasures	Jameson, W C
Surviving in Space	Lawrence, Ellen
Hildegard of Bingen: Scientist, Composer, Healer, and Saint	Demi
Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People	Goff, Bob
The Flavor Thesaurus: A Compendium of Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for the Creative Cook	Segnit, Niki
Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World	Goff, Bob
Zen: The Art of Simple Living	Masuno, Shunmyō
Essays	Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The Story of the Great British Bake Off	Singh, Anita
North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring	Beehler, Bruce M.
Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse	Carney, Timothy P.
Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt	Brooks, Arthur C.
Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America	Fallows, James M.
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad	Kleon, Austin*
Wilderness Essays	Muir, John
The Forest for the Trees	Lerner, Betsy
Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting	Quindlen, Anna
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered	Kleon, Austin*
Yoga for Everyone: 50 Poses for Every Type of Body	Bondy, Dianne
Fast Cakes: Easy Bakes in Minutes	Berry, Mary
The Italian Baker	Field, Carol
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed	Gottlieb, Lori*
Our Flag Was Still There: The True Story of Mary Pickersgill and the Star-Spangled Banner	Hartland, Jessie
Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World	Gordinier, Jeff*
As They Were	Fisher, Mary Francis Kennedy
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir	Reichl, Ruth
Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line	Gibney, Michael
The Four Loves	Lewis, C.S.
Brave the Page	Month, National Novel Writing
A Book That Takes Its Time: An Unhurried Adventure in Creative Mindfulness	Smit, Irene
Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson	Johnson, Katherine G.
A Bite-Sized History of France: Delicious, Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment	Henaut, Stephane
Morningstar: Growing Up With Books	Hood, Ann
Catfulness: A Cat's Guide to Achieving Mindfulness	Cat, A
Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World	Raden, Aja*
The Barefoot Books Children of the World	Strickland, Tessa And Depalma
Barefoot Books Solar System	Jankeliowitch, Anne
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas	Gertrude, Stein
Paris Sweets: Great Desserts from the City's Best Pastry Shops	Greenspan, Dorie
Citizen: An American Lyric	Rankine, Claudia
Why Read Moby-Dick?	Philbrick, Nathaniel*
The Whale: A Love Story	Beauregard, Mark*
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea	Hoare, Philip
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures	Pyenson, Nick
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex	Philbrick, Nathaniel*
Karánkaway Country	Bedichek, Roy
The Sea Mammal Alphabet Book	Pallotta, Jerry
G is for Golazo: The Ultimate Soccer Alphabet	Littlejohn, James*
Secret Lives of the First Ladies	O'Brien, Cormac
In the Past: From Trilobites to Dinosaurs to Mammoths in More Than 500 Million Years	Elliott, David
The Crab Alphabet Book	Pallotta, Jerry
Florence Harding: The First Lady, The Jazz Age, And The Death Of America's Most Scandalous President	Anthony, Carl Sferrazza
Adventures with a Texas Naturalist	Bedichek, Roy
Shout	Anderson, Laurie Halse*
Animal Skins	Holland, Mary
Eiffel's Tower for Young People	Jonnes, Jill
Skulls!	Thornburgh, Blair*
The Forest in the Trees	McLennan, Connie*
Even Darkness Sings: From Auschwitz to Hiroshima: Finding Hope and Optimism in the Saddest Places on Earth	Cook, Thomas H.
Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide	Katz, Josh
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life	Wilson, Edward O.
Can You Hear the Trees Talking?: Discovering the Hidden Life of the Forest	Wohlleben, Peter
The Body: A Guide for Occupants	Bryson, Bill
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation	Wohlleben, Peter

What nonfiction have you read and enjoyed this year?