Let’s Read Some Non Fiction Books! || Reading Challenge 2022

Hey Booktube! TIme for my last reading challenge of 2022! One thing I've been struggling with is to read more non fiction books. Being tired and overwhelmed has made me reluctant to pick up heavier non fiction books so we're changing that! Here's my TBR!

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The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The Demon Hunted World by Carl Sagan

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T Kiyosaki

The Mountain is you by Brianna Wiest

101 Essays that will Change the way you Think by Brianna Wiest

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski

The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore

Women Race & Class by Angela Y Davis

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

White Tears Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad

The Pain Gap by Anushay Hossain

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[BookswithEmilyFox]

What are some of your favorite non fiction books? Anything on your TBR for 2022?

[AshtheViking]

Just FYI loads of historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and others think Jared Diamond is a hack.
Great recent nonfiction: Bad Blood by John Carreyou (especially since Elizabeth Holmes is currently facing sentencing for her crimes), Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe (about the Sackler family who created the opioid epidemic), A Mind Spread Out On The Ground by Alicia Elliot (series of essays on the Indigenous experience. I think it's a Canadian must-read). I read all these on audio from my library and loved them all.

[daisypearl]

You have to read Know my Name by Chanel Miller! Yes it’s technically “memoir” but it deals with a lot of issues around misogyny and sexual violence and white male privilege. It’s so so beautifully written and the author narrates the audiobook. Also Caste by Isabel Wilkerson was a five star nonfiction I read last year.

[jjaayyddaa]

i read so much great non-fiction last year, but i think my stand-outs were disability visibility by alice wong, ace by angela chen, and biased by jennifer l eberhardt. i listened to them all on audio and used a physical copy to mark stuff if i wanted too. that really worked well for me! my top non-fiction priorities for this year are braiding sweetgrass by robin wall kimmerer, disordered cosmos by chanda prescod-weinstein, and cultish by amanda montell.

[alexamouton]

I listened to the audiobook of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry last year, and I strongly recommend it! It’s read by the author and he has wonderful voice and reading style, very calming and it really made the information stick better in my brain! Good luck with your challenge this year, I’m doing a similar version as well :)

[jlee]

Atomic Habits is worth the hype. I thought it was actually very helpful and the lessons were easy to implement.

[carolinamg]

The Demon Haunted World is amazing, heavy at times but def worth it!

[LittleCutieABDL]

Girl as a biomedical graduate and cancer research with the focus in genetics you brightened my day when you mentioned those two books! It's like music to my ears and i spent all night reading 😂 i should be actually catching on sleep but here i am seeing this video as a break from reading. It's always refreshing to see what people outside of the field think about these non fiction science heavy books. I enjoy it but it takes me back to uni days i must say, and some days it is so hard to absorb information (reresding the same sentence particularly if a sound is distracting me) vs just a story along type of book, but the lgbt lesbian ones are such few! I find perhaps I'm wrong but any recommendations appreciated; just the way you read them i find it's quite different, personakly, but honestly as it is said if you do something for your sole passion, you will never work a day in your life, or something along those lines but it truly is true 💕 i digress with my epileptic and autistic, nerdy brain that decided 5 more minutes please which turned to be an all nighter just for fun to learn more about a certain topic tired brain. Gotta love my brain sometimes...

[kari]

I read the power of habit at the start of January and I really enjoyed it. I don't know that it was really "life changing" but it helped get my mindset right for my goals this year. Usually I'm not into self help but many years ago I read the easy way to stop smoking and I quit smoking as soon as I finished. It really blew my mind bc I'd been smoking for a decade at that point. After that I've been willing to give any self help a chance.

[zcapari]

Guns Germs and Steel is great! I read it last year and I was worried that it would be a little outdated with the language and like ethnicity stuff since it was written in 1998 but it holds up really well

[kiradonofero]

What helps me read more nonfiction and classics is often reading multiple books at once - one from that category and one fiction. The fiction helps prevent a reading slump and then I’ll enjoy still reading the nonfiction/ classic to challenges my brain. I’ll put in interval goals sometimes too. Like 1 chapter a day and then I can read my fiction book the rest of the day

[juicedboxes]

I feel similar to you about being too tired to delve into non-fiction, especially because my day job includes sifting through a lot of journal articles/research texts. I found it helpful to go for audiobook with most nonfics so it doesn't feel as tiring or like "work"

[emorales]

Yesss! Thank you! The search for good non-fiction is sometimes hard, but I like to alternate my reads between fiction and nonfiction, so I appreciate these recs

[gemmasegnitz]

Carl Sagan is one of my all-time favourite authors! I hope you like The Demon-Haunted World. If you do, he has so many other great books.

[noeditbookreviews]

That was one heck of a nice stack! Demon-Haunted World isn't the most riveting book but the central message is SO important that it's one of my favorite books.

[TheMelodramaticBookworm]

If you'd be interested in reading about the Independence and Partition of India, then please give Remnants of a Separation a try. It's heavy, hard-hitting nonfiction, and amazing!

[sophiegaladheon]

Okay, I know everyone in the comments is saying Guns, Germs, and Steel is great but as a history grad student I just want to add that Jared Diamond is not well regarded and the claims made in the book are considered quite controversial. Just something to keep in mind. The Demon Haunted World on the other hand is great, I read it in high school and it made a strong impression. I want to pick up Anne Applebaum's latest book on Soviet history this year; I've read her earlier two and they're fantastic.

[ashm]

Sounds like you have some good strategies. Just wanted to let you know, take Guns, Germs, and Steel with a grain of salt. A lot of very good science researchers have debunked a fair amount of what he's said (some of it isn't his fault, but some of it is). I have several of the titles on your list on mine, too, and I am really wanting to read The Gene this year (it's been on my list too long). I read about 40-50 non-fiction books a year so hopefully I can fit it in. :)

[bookswithamymarie]

Favorite nonfiction books: Rest by Alex SooJung Pang, Stretch by Steve Sonensein, and Deep Work by Cal Newport. All were completely lifechanging for my life and productivity 💜

[Hsquaredreads]

Devil in the White City is an amazing non-fiction that tells the story of the 1893 World fair in Chicago from the viewpoint of the designers, including Daniel Burnham, and also tells the story of H. H. Holmes, the first modern serial killer and his murder hotel that was in operation during the same time. It is a really fast easy non-fiction since it feels like a novel but and the fact that the story is true makes it all the more intriguing