Nonfiction November 2024: Your Year in Nonfiction

 

Week 1 (10/28-11/1) 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? (Hosted by Heather at Based on a True Story.)

What books have you read?

I've read 105 nonfiction books out of a total of 241 books. That's 44%.

Of the 105 nonfiction books, 23 were children's nonfiction. That's 22%

What were your favorites?

My Favorite Nonfiction of 2024:

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks

The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder's Formula for a Long and Useful Life by Eric Weiner

The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning by A. J. Jacobs

Cheerfulness by Garrison Keillor

Somehow: Thoughts on Love by Anne Lamott

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by James Patterson

Three Simple Lines: A Writer's Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku by Natalie Goldberg

Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humanity by Yuval Noah Harati

The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age by Gladys McGarey

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey

I also enjoyed these books of nonfiction for children: Things to Look Forward To by Sophie Blackall; A Butterfly is Patient by Dianna Hutts Aston; The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became President by Doris Kearns Goodwin; What It's Like to Be a Bird (Adapted for Young Readers) by David Allen Sibley; Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine.

Have you had a favorite topic? Is there a topic you want to read about more?

As usual, I've read a lot of books this year about books and writing; happiness; nature, especially birds; Paris; baking; and history, especially leadership. I'm always on the lookout for more good books about these topics.

What are you hoping to get out of participating in Nonfiction November?

I hope to find more good nonfiction.