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Week 3: (November 16-20) – Rennie is asking you to Be The Expert/Ask the Expert/Become the Expert: Three ways to join in this week! You can either share 3 or more books on a single topic that you have read and can recommend (be the expert), you can put the call out for good nonfiction on a specific topic that you have been dying to read (ask the expert), or you can create your own list of books on a topic that you’d like to read (become the expert).
I'm certainly no expert here, but I am eager to share anything that might move us a little farther down this path. Here's my list.
Books that Might Help Us Get Along with Each Other a Little Better
Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy by Stephen L. Carter
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel
The Common Good by Robert B. Reich
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening) by Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers
And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman
Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse by Timothy P. Carney
Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt by Arthur C. Brooks
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
Yes, I'm a Texas Master Naturalist, but that doesn't mean I can identify the flowers I see growing in yards on our morning walk. I welcome any identifications you might make.
Thanks, Deanna @ A Novel Glimpse!
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic and then post her top ten list that fits that topic. You’re more than welcome to join her and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you! Please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own post so that others know where to find more information.
It's Week 2 of Nonfiction November (November 9-13). Julz Reads will be sharing Book Pairing: This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. It can be a “If you loved this book, read this!” or just two titles that you think would go well together. Maybe it’s a historical novel and you’d like to get the real history by reading a nonfiction version of the story.
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird AND How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
A novel about the life of a freed enslaved Black woman who joins the Buffalo Soldiers AND a nonfiction overview of the history of American racism and ways to overcome racism in America today.
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig AND From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
A novel about a woman who tries to take her own life and ends up with opportunities to relive her life and make different choices in the afterlife AND a nonfiction book written by a mortician who travels the world to see ways different cultures care for their dead.
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue AND Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History by Jeremy Brown
A novel about a nurse in flu-ravaged Dublin in 1918 AND a nonfiction book about the 1918 flu.
These is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901: Arizona Territories: A Novel by Nancy E. Turner AND Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
