Nonfiction November: Week 1 (10/30-11/3) Your Year in Nonfiction

Week 1 (10/30-11/3) Your Year in Nonfiction: Celebrate your year of nonfiction. What books have you read? What were your favorites? Have you had a favorite topic? Is there a topic you want to read about more? What are you hoping to get out of participating in Nonfiction November? (Heather of Based on a True Story)

Statistics

So far in 2023, I have read 210 books.
Exactly half of them, 105 books, are nonfiction.
The breakdown into categories: History 4    Writing 17    Classics 3    Travel 5    Poetry 14    Spirituality/Philosophy 5Books-About-Books 4    Nature/Science 9    Happiness 17    Foodie 9   Social Issues 5    Sports 1    Memoir/Bio 9    Barbie 1


Which, then, are my favorite nonfiction reads of 2023?

Favorite Nonfiction of 2023(Links take you to my reviews)
I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Monica Guzmán
Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own by Mike Greenberg
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux
Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger
Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark by Julia Baird
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Poetry Remedy: Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul by William Sieghart
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah


I am eager to see what nonfiction books you read and enjoyed this year.