Week 4: New to My TBR, hosted by Katie @ Doing Dewey: It’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books! Which ones have made it onto your TBR? Be sure to link back to the original blogger who posted about that book!
So many books to choose from! Here are a few that appealed to me:
- The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor – from The Bookworm Chronicles
- An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks – from The Emerald City Book Review, case studies of blind or vision-impaired individuals.
- The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell from Plucked From the Stacks
- Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott’s Antarctic Quest by Sir Ranulph Fiennes from Julz Reads
- Grayson Perry by Jacky Klein – from Adventures in Reading, Running and Working From Home
Plus the books recommended to me on my Ask the Experts post on World War Two:
From Shelleyrae – Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II by Roger Moorhouse
From Deb Nance:
- The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
- Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of “The Children’s Ship
- A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead, Hitler and the Habsburgs by James Longo
- Sons and Soldiers by Bruce Henderson
- When Books Went to War by Mollie Guptill Manning
- In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
From Gilt and Dust -No Woman’s World: From D-day to Berlin by Iris Carpenter
From What’s Nonfiction
- A Woman in Berlin, an anonymous diary of a woman who lived through the Russian occupation of the city
- Primo Levi’s memoirs like Survival in Auschwitz and The Reawakening,
- Underground in Berlin.
- Svetlana Alexievich’s The Unwomanly Face of War is an oral history of the women in the Red Army by Marie Jalowicz Simon
Thanks so much to our hosts, Katie at Doing Dewey, Julie at Julz Reads, Leann at Shelf Aware, and Rennie at What’s Nonfiction! And thanks to everyone who stopped by with comments and recommendations as well!
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Those are such great choices, Margaret! Lots of interesting books there, and I hope you’ll enjoy them. The one that caught my attention is the Sacks. I’ve always like Oliver Sacks’ work, ‘though I’ve not read that particular one. Intriguing…
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I’m glad one of mine appealed!
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Nonfiction November is always bad for the TBR!
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You now have a great list of books to draw from for 2021.
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A great list for you to enjoy next year!
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Lots of interesting non-fictions to get your teeth into here, Margaret! 😁 It is also lovely to see my recommendation of The Cottingley Secret made onto your TBR, too – I really hope you will enjoy it. 😊
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It looks like you’ve got a great collection of books on World War II – some really interesting titles, thanks for sharing. Enjoy your nonfiction reads!
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Oh yay, I’m glad I could give you some WWII recommendations! Looks like you have a great year of nonfiction reading ahead of you 🙂
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I second the recommendations of the books by Larson and Alexievich! And A Woman in Berlin sounds like a great read too. For some reason, I feel like WWII is exceptionally well represented in both nonfiction and historical fiction, so it seems like a great time period to read more about!
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