Top 10 Books You MUST Read For Non-Fiction November

Top 10 Books You MUST Read For Non-Fiction November

1 Rez Life by David Treuer
2 Death Confetti. Pickers, Punks and Transit Ghosts in Portland, Oregon by Jennifer Robin
3 This Is London. Life and Death in the World City by Ben Judah
4 Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
5 The Nine Lives of Pakistan. Dispatches by Declan Walsh
6 Japan Story. In Search of A Nation by Christopher Harding
7 No Fixed Abode. Life and Death Among the UK's Forgotten Homeless by Maeve McClenahan
8 In Defense of Dogs by John Bradshaw
9 Twilight of Democracy. The Seductive Lure oif Authoritanianism by Anne Applebaum
10 Evicted. Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

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[lusomarga]

Tack, Rainier! Hälsningar från Östersund!

[MarilynMayaMendoza]

No fixed abode and in defense of dogs are on my radar thanks to your video. Aloha

[RovingReader]

I love lists like this! I requested Rez Life from the library!

[BookwormAdventureGirl]

You always have book lists with so many books I haven’t read. Adding several of these to my TBR. 😊💙

[bouquinsbooks]

I read just one of these books, Uncanny Valley. I liked it, but I wish certain subjects would have been explored more in depth (which she couldn’t really do because, since this was a memoir, she could only talk about her own experience). You make all of these books sound interesting. I am particularly intrigued by This is London.

[SpringboardThought]

Some great picks. I liked Uncanny Valley, though it didn’t really communicate much about that time period that I didn’t already know.

[Andrew_reads]

I love the vibes and feelings you transmit in your videos. Learning for my own channel :). Pakistan and evicted caught my attention. Thank you for recommending! Keep going!

For november I mostly read startup books. Super Founders (data about the origins of more than 200 unicorn companies), Levers (how to create repeatability in your business so you can scale), and Financial Intelligence (Explains the fundamentals of finances like no other book, easy to understand and engaging). All of them highly recommended!

[CourtneyFerriter]

Rez Life and Twilight of Democracy sound really interesting. I will check to see if they are available through my libraries. 🙂

[mame-musing]

You’re sharing with us a really interesting selection of non-fiction books. While traveling several months ago, I listened to the audio version of “Uncanny Valley”. The details of it haven’t really stayed with me, however, I do recall the difficulty of finding housing being discussed several times. The housing demand generated by the many tech workers in San Francisco has caused rents to skyrocket and become unaffordable for those with lesser paying jobs.
I’ve added your list to my own never ending “book wish list”. Thanks for
the recommendations.

[bethannebruninga-socolar]

I have not read any of these, but I'd like to read all of them.... adding them to my TBR!

[annetteholman]

Great list! I would add EMPIRE OF PAIN, an intensely researched 3-generational study of the family that developed and marketed the pharmaceuticals that monumentally destroyed much of America. And yet the original aim was benign.

[pjreads]

Best book I read last week was the autobiography Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer, an artist who has dealt with spina bifida at birth, frequent operations and other consequences. Much of her artwork is included along with her commentary on her changing process as she moved from the historical artistic perspective of models as subjects to engaging in cooperative artworks.

Non-fiction for early November:
Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics by Stephon Alexander
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie Moore
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America