Nonfiction November discussion

Nonfiction November 2024 will be here soon! Today on my booktube channel (abookolive), I posted my TBR and recommendations for the four challenge words. You can find that video on the home page of this group, if you're interested in seeing my picks!

What are you planning to read for Nonfiction November? Are you reading toward the challenge words? What nonfiction books would you recommend to satisfy those challenges?

When Olive announced the challenge words, my TBR was almost ready, I just had to figure out how to connect the books to the words. So, here it is:

-CODE: I've always wondered if sociopaths and psychopaths had any moral and ethical code, so I chose this book Sociopath: A Memoir.

-PATH: The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm: The Reader as Metaphor to learn something about my path as a reader,
and/or The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder because it's about a journey.

-SHOT: Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty because they were shot, and/or Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life - out of my comfort zone, giving it a shot.

-JOIN: On Literature by Eco, Umberto (2006) Paperback - an essay collection.

I am so hyped for NFN this year. The prompts are great. All week I've been prepping for it. I have a total of 16 books planned, four for each prompt, but if I can do one book per prompt then I'll consider myself and my goals accomplished.

That said, these are the main books I've got planned for each prompt. Any book that is in the first spot is my main priority for that prompt. I've also included my reasoning behind them:

Code:

1. Environmental Ethics: The Central Issues - Code could also work well with ethics. I love books on nature and environmental studies so I thought looking into the ethics would be interesting.

2. Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code (Studies in Popular Culture - This is an older book (mid-1990s) so I don't know how relevant it would be by today's standards. Still the word 'Code' was in the title and I love reading comic books so this was perfect.

3. The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America - Synonyms for code included 'rules', 'laws', 'constitution', 'system'. This book has been on my TBR since I heard of it's release. Who gets to determine the system of who gets to be Indigenous? Who created things like blood quantum laws?

4. Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII - Another book with the word 'code' in the title. Perfect because the Navajo used their language as a code during WWII and it's great for Native American Heritage Month (also in November) as well.

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Path:

1. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum - This is a graphic novel I thought would be fun. I got my autism diagnosis this year and I have been on a path of discovery so to learn about other people's experiences and their paths seemed cool.

2. Squanto: A Native Odyssey - The word 'odyssey' is similar to the word 'path'. Another great one for Native American Heritage Month. The author goes down a 'path' to discover more of Squanto's history.

3. Early Poems - My immediate thought with this was the Frost poem, 'The Road Not Taken' so I'll start with that one. He talks about going on many walks and 'paths' throughout his various poetry. And I'm going on a 'path' by exploring a different genre with poetry.

4. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park - The author goes on many 'paths' as he takes his journey.

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Shot:

1. Adapting Superman: Essays on the Transmedia Man of Steel -The media taking a 'shot' at adapting the character of Superman through various mediums of television and movies.

2. Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire (American Crossroads) - I figure with 'shot' being closely tied to military that I would go this route. Another book for Native American Heritage as well since it talks about the US has always taken 'shots' at Native Americans both in a figurative and literal sense- they took shots at them during the battles, and they take shots at them through use of terminology like calling assignments, 'Geronimo' and such.

3. One Year in Uvalde: A Story of Hope and Resilience - Figured this one was easy. School shootings and such.

4. Out of the Sierra - Taking a 'shot' against colonialism and trying to find a place between the US and Mexico.

*****

Join:

1. Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry - Women/girls not being able to 'join' fandoms/what it means when misogyny tries to take over things that girls try to be apart of.

2. Creative Nonfiction: How to Blend Reality with Imagination in Your Writing - Blending/'joining' of different genres to create hybrid genres

3. The Plot Against Native America: The Fateful Story of Native American Boarding Schools and the Theft of Tribal Lands - Natives being taken from their homes and forced to 'join'/assimilate into European societies and boarding schools.

4. Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show - Bethany Joy Lenz 'joined' the television show One Tree Hill while at the same time she was also in an actual cult.

I don’t plan to use the prompts, but it will be interesting to see how others use them.

The books that I currently have on my up-next shelf (which is books that I have checked out from the library/pulled from my own collection with the intent of reading this year) that fit for NFN are:

The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel
Forager: Field Notes on Surviving a Family Cult by Michelle Dowd
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jno Krakauer
The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands by Jon Billman
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
My Effin Life by Geddy Lee
The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land by Sally Denton.

I'm not sure that I'll get to all of them in November, and I have a couple of fiction books that I am keeping at the top of my list, but I'm excited to binge some interesting and atmospheric nonfiction. I've never participated in NFN before, and while I read nonfiction it has never been a planned experience, just something that looked interesting at the time or worked for Read Harder. I'm excited to be a little more intentional with this challenge.

I updated my list. Removed two and added two. These books have been on my TBR so I was more interested in them over the ones I had:

The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America

One Year in Uvalde: A Story of Hope and Resilience

Carly wrote: "The books that I currently have on my up-next shelf (which is books that I have checked out from the library/pulled from my own collection with the intent of reading this year) that fit for NFN are..."

Carly, I loved both The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit and They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

I sat down on the day of your announcement, Olive, and planned my TBR. I am reading only books I already own, to whittle down my shelves a tiny bit. It was fun to do this and make books I chose fit the prompts.

CODE
by Cat Bohannon
This book uses female DNA characteristics to show how human evolution has evolved.

PATH
by Conor Knighton
A journey is a path and I love to read about the national parks. I also love to watch Conor Knighton as a reporter.

SHOT
by James L. Swanson This is about apprehending the shooter of Abraham Lincoln. This is a middle grade book I have been meaning to read.

JOIN
by Theresa Kaminski

This is the only American woman to receive the Medal of Honor so she joins all the men Medal-of-Honor winners.

I'm trying to think of another book for 'Shot'. I have one on taking a shot when it comes to adapting a comic book character for film/tv, I have a book on a school shooting, and I have something on the military.

Since I'm doing 4 books per prompt (doubt I'll get to them all) but I want to have a wide variety of options. I just don't know where my interests lie quite yet.

CODE

Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry

JOIN

Our Last Season: A Writer, a Fan, a Friendship

SHOT

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

PATH

Fuzz - When Nature Breaks the Rules

Sociopath: A Memoir

Infused: Adventures In Tea

I’m delighted that most of the books on my planned list fit the prompts!

Code - Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945

Path - My Cross to Bear
A History of the Arab Peoples

Shot - Once Upon a Revolution
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Join - Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge
Banned Book Club

Others: The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
All But My Life
Robin
Me

My TBR is officially set. I'm being ambitious and have 20 books planned (4 for each of the prompts, and then 4 bonus books if I can fit them in.)

Since this is Olive's last year hosting I really want to go out with a bang on these.

So going off of what I have in my TBR my nonfiction November reading list is:

Code
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power
I think both of these fit the code prompt in relation to a morality code.

Path
On Many Routes: Internal, European, and Transatlantic Migration in the Late Habsburg Empire
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
Spare
The first two of these books are more about paths taken in migration of people and a path of a sailing trip. I added Spare because you could definitely argue that his life was on a predetermined path.

Shot
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
Bit of a reach but I definitely think winning an Oscar is a long shot. I'm also realizing I don't think I have any other books that I can relate to the shot category.

Join
The Nineties
The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The first two books are collections of essays, and the third is a book about food and I like the connotation of joining together for a meal.

Other books I want to read in November (that may or may not fit the prompts)
Love for a Deaf Rebel: Schizophrenia on Bowen Island
Inside the Robe: A Judge's Candid Tale of Criminal Justice in America
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century
The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst
Blockbusters and Trade Wars: Popular Culture in A Globalized World

Definitely an ambitious list but excited to see how many I can get through.

Hoping to get to: The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Wild Swans by Jung Chang, and The Salt Path from Raynor Winn.

Okay so here is my official list. It's also Native American Heritage Month in November so I'm planning to use some Indigenous books.

Whether I get to them all is a different story because as I said, it's a pretty ambitious list. The first book in each prompt will be my main priority books. I've also given my reasons as to why I chose them.

Code:

1. The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America

- I looked up synonyms for 'code' and a few I came up with were things like laws and regulations. So for this book, who gets to determine who is Indigenous? Who decides on blood quantum laws?

2. Environmental Ethics: The Central Issues

- Code can involve things like ethics so I figured I'd go that route.

3. Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code (Studies in Popular Culture

- This one had the word 'code' in the title

4. Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII

- Another book with 'code' in the title.

*****

Path:

1. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum

- Adding this graphic novel. I have been on a 'path' of discovery since I got my autism diagnosis this year so I thought a book on other people's experiences would be interesting.

2. The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America

- This is kind of a stretch but I figured the path it took to harness the ability to read. What led to our ability to do so? What's the science/the 'path' behind reading?

3. Squanto: A Native Odyssey

- Another couple of words for 'path' could be things like odyssey or journey and this is a book about Squanto's journey (finally an adult book on him. All I ever find are kid ones).

4. Early Poems

- My first thought was his poem 'The Road Not Taken'. There are two roads, two 'paths' in the woods and he has to decide which to take. I figured I'd add the whole collection and not just that one poem because a lot of his poetry include taking paths through nature.

*****

Shot:

1. One Year in Uvalde: A Story of Hope and Resilience

- A little harsh. As we all have seen what 'shot' can mean in this context so I won't go into it much.

2. Adapting Superman: Essays on the Transmedia Man of Steel

- Taking a 'shot' at what it takes to adapt the character of Superman into things like tv shows and movies and such.

3. Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire (American Crossroads)

- Shot can be associated with the military. In this case, it's that, plus the government taking 'shots' at Indigenous communities when they use code words like 'Geronimo' or things like that which only add fuel to the already harsh realities of how Indigenous people are viewed and treated.

4. Girl of Steel: Essays on Television's Supergirl and Fourth-Wave Feminism

- Taking a shot at things like when it comes to tackling subjects such as feminism.

*****

Join:

1. Creative Nonfiction: How to Blend Reality with Imagination in Your Writing

- The joining of two or more genres to make hybrid genres

2. Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry

- How men have tried to take women out of the equation and not letting them 'join' fandoms even though fan culture is for everyone.

3. The Plot Against Native America: The Fateful Story of Native American Boarding Schools and the Theft of Tribal Lands

- Indigenous people having to 'join', in this case, assimilate into Western cultures and being forced from their homes.

4. Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show

- Bethany 'joined' the cast of One Tree Hill. At the same time, she talks about how she also joined a real cult.

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These next ones are my bonus books if I have the time. If not I'll just roll them over into December.

1. American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights

2. Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan

3. 'North American Indian's by George Caitlin

4. The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History

2024 Non-Fiction November:
Code: √Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn...the Hippocratic Oath is
like a 'code' that doctors must follow? (not best connection?)
Path: √The Peace by Roméo Dallaire
√An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
√Chelsea by Bill Wyman
Shot: √Cujo by Curtis Joseph with Kirstie McLellan Day (goaltender)
Join: √Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden

Theresa wrote: "Carly wrote: "The books that I currently have on my up-next shelf (which is books that I have checked out from the library/pulled from my own collection with the intent of reading this year) that f..."

Ooh, that's great, I'll make sure those are at the top of the pile!

Carly wrote: "Theresa wrote: "Carly wrote: "The books that I currently have on my up-next shelf (which is books that I have checked out from the library/pulled from my own collection with the intent of reading t..."

The Stranger in the woods I listened to on audio and just loved it.

Louise wrote: "2024 Non-Fiction November:
Code: Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn...the Hippocratic Oath is
like a 'code' that doctors must follow? (not best connection?)
Path: The Peace by Roméo Dallaire
An As..."

I own Unwell Women. That will make a great book for code! I need to get to it soon!

Carly wrote: "The books that I currently have on my up-next shelf (which is books that I have checked out from the library/pulled from my own collection with the intent of reading this year) that fit for NFN are..."

I've read Fuzz by Mary Roach and The Library Book by Susan Orlean. Both were excellent!

Here are my potentials options for this year

Code
- postal codes matter in terms of zoning for school, getting a job or being known socially.

- how legal code can be used and works with the first book

- some people have a different moral code

Path





Shot
- like everyone I though about alcohol drinks

- gunshots


Join
- women join the medical fraternity as doctors

: welcome to the family

- joint authors

- joint authors

Books that everyone else seems to read, reading one of these means I am joining in the conversation a little later:

I read Unwell Women either last year or the year before. Good book, very deep though.

*****

Oh Caste! I read that this year. I tried reading it before but I couldn't understand it. After watching the movie adaptation, Origin, it helped me understand the concept of the book so much more.

the wager, will bill, pioneers

I'm excited about this year's Nonfiction November prompts. I tried to narrow down one book for each prompt. However, there are too many to choose from. We'll see if I can read all these books during the month.

1. Code

2. Path

3. Shot (Camera)

4. Join

I have started my first book The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War for either Code or Join. Also reading Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King, which I am thinking works for Path

I've started 5 books currently. Starting a 6th tomorrow:

Early Poems - This is an easy read

Sensory: Life on the Spectrum - A short graphic novel so very easy to get through.

Adapting Superman: Essays on the Transmedia Man of Steel - Easy read since it's just an essay collection

Girl of Steel: Essays on Television's Supergirl and Fourth-Wave Feminism - Fast read since it's another essay collection

The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America

*****

Tomorrow I'll be starting Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show

Shot (basketball)
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Code
Gravity: How the Weakest Force in the Universe Shaped Our Lives
Path
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Join
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

to start with :)

I'm focussing on reading the non-fiction books on my shelf first so these are the ones I'll prioritise:

Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous by Gillian Anderson

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Salt Path by Raynor Winn (fits PATH prompt)

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle by Jody Rosen

If I make a good dent in those there are some on my TBR that sound super interesting.

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI (fits CODE prompt)

I Don't: The Case Against Marriage

Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

Osebol

For the CODE prompt, one interpretation I'm going with relates to language as code, and the first book I'm reading is The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform our Minds by Viorica Marian.

A Moveable Feast, Hemingway
Devil in the White City, Larson
The Professor and the Madman, Winchester
Nickel and Dimed, Wehrenreich

For shot I read a December 2023 release Moonshot by Mike Massimino https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1.... A good choice if you're looking for a fast shorter read to meet the challenge.

So excited for this reading adventure!
Here’s my TBR:
Code: Lovely One
Path: From Here to the Great Unknown
Join: Saying Ot Loud
Shot: Over the Influence

Happy reading folks!

Shot: Over the Influence
*Got cut off in my previous comment lol

I'm reading An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s for Join right now. Doris Kearns Goodwin joined in marriage to Richard (Dick) Goodwin. Dick joined JFK's administration & was involved in the New Frontier. He also joined Lyndon Johnson's administration & helped designed Johnson's Great Society. Later Dick joined Robert Kennedy's campaign as speech writer & advisor. I have really enjoyed all the history.

This is my first nonfiction November! For “code” I’m reading “A Taste for Poison.” A lot of prisoners are doctors or nurses, so they are definitely violating the medical code of ethics. For “path” I’m reading “Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World.” Haven’t decided on the other two prompts yet. I see a lot of y’all are reading “Fuzz.” I just read that last month! Mary Roach is always fun.

For Code: Book and Dagger by Elyse Graham. I have a lot of things I want to read, but probably won't get to.

I decided to combine Non-Fiction November and the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2024.
For Code I am reading: Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
For Path: A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
For Shot: Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
And for Join: How to Say Babylon

Love this year's challenge words, so have tried to match words & my own interests.

Here is what I have come up so far. My intention is to read one book per prompt, if I get to more, even better.

1. Code
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi which matches elements from the periodic table with his life's experience which took him to Auschwitz which he survived.

Other options I have considered are

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers by Frank Trentmann, just because I am intrinsically curious to see how we ended up here with all the waste we are producing, in other words, looking for the code behind consumerism, and

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell, who offers a biography of John Donne who sounds like a code breaker of what is accepted or considered normal


2. Path
Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin, who follows the journeys of HMS Erebus to the Arctic, Antarctica and back to the Arctic where the ship eventually perished in search of the North West passage

Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future by Tom Bullough - Sarn Helen, Helen's Causeway is the old Roman road that runs from the south of Wales to the north and offers the author to reflect on past, present and future, with a focus on the climate crisis. As I currently live in Wales I am curious to discover more of its past, present and future potential.

The Grasmere Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth, who started to write these journals at the beginning of 1800 and had no idea it would take her onto a 3 year journey that offers an insight into the time period when William Wordsworth, her brother as at his most productive as a poet. I am not acquainted with when journal writing became thing, but she might as well have been an inspiration for many other women and men to write a journal.

A Memoir of my Former Self by Hilary Mantel - life is the path an individual is thrown upon when taking physical form. I am curious to follow such a writer as Hilary Mantel as she looks at her own life and the changes she underwent by living it.

Journey from the North: A Memoir by Storm Jameson, this book has recently been reissued and something about it caught my interest. It is a big book though.

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel. From what I can gather, this is the story of how finally Longitude was 'discovered' or is it more 'invented'? and how it changed how we view and understand the world. Sounds fascinating & intriguing.

Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo is a memoir, that shows 'how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice', choosing the path of non-violence in face of so much violence towards herself and her people.

3. Shot
The Story of Human Language by John McWhorter is me giving this book idea a shot. Maybe it works, maybe it does not for me, but I am willing to give it a shot.

Military History: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Objects of Warfare, by D.K. Publishing sounds otherwise also like quite a shot that might be interesting and entertaining.

4. Join
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil sounds like extended reading to my having recently joined the foodies in the sense that I am giving more focus and intent to how I eat and what I eat in order to keep myself long term healthy. This book sounds like another part of my journey linking food with memories, good and bad and discovering on the way what truly nourishes.

A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story by Polly Morland, sketches the life of a female general practitioner who gets embedded into the community she serves.

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City by Andrea Elliott. What has captured my interest from the book description, is the question raised, 'What if leaving poverty means abandoning the family you love?
By turns heartbreaking and revelatory, provocative and inspiring, Invisible Child tells an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality.'

The English and their History by Robert Tombs. As I now live on the British Isles and still know fairly little about its history, this is another read that could give me a better understanding of what I have gotten myself into and what it means to join this nation.

I'm having to change up my Nonfiction November style. Even though I had my TBR set in light of recent events I am not in the head space to handle heavy topics like I normally would so I'm gonna try to see if there are other books I can use for the challenges that will work.

I was looking forward to my TBR but now I just can't bring myself to handle some of the topics. Gotta protect my own sanity above all else so hopefully I can find things that work that won't give me a headache, get me depressed, or get me angry and upset.

I totally understand Ron! I feel a bit the same at the moment. I've just put 'Hope in the Dark' by Rebecca Solnit on reserve at my local library as I'm hoping that will be a bit of uplifting non-fiction.

I didn't see a currently reading or finished section so I will write here. I just finished my first NF, The White Darkness By David Grann. He is the author of Killers of the Flower Moon but this is my first book by him. It was short but very good.

That was a gorgeous book, Theresa I gave it 5 stars

I just finished my first nonfiction, which I started this summer. Bernard Bailyn’s 2013 Pulitzer prize winner “The Barbarous Year” to satisfy the path prompt. It’s long and an excellent college history secondary reading choice. I felt I needed a challenge after reading several breezy pop histories and cozy mystery novels.
I’ve already started “The Ultimate Bar Book” by Mittie Hellmich earlier this week to cover Shot, just for fun.
This morning I started “The Plaza, the Secret Life of America’s Most Famous Hotel” by Julie Satow. I’m thinking Building code, Social code, Bankruptcy Code.
I also started a second path book- “The Path Between the Seas” by David McCullough, the creation of the Panama Canal.
Hope I can finish all of these, fingers crossed

Initially I really wanted to tailor my reading to the prompt words, but not much of the nonfiction I'm in the mood for fits, so here goes:

I finished How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them already and very much recommend it (could maybe count as Shot!)

My current reads: The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World.

This is my completely unrealistic stack of library books I currently have out and there is no way I will read all of them but we'll see where my mood takes me:

Along came a llama (added to my TBR thanks to Olive!)
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

For my first read, for Code, I read The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness and definitely recommend it.

Tyler wrote: "For my first read, for Code, I read The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness and definitely recommend it."

Nice. I read that one. I want to get a paperback copy of that book. It's excellent. Especially when I see kids so addicted to their tech. That's all they do sometimes which is kind of sad. I'm grateful that I lived in a time before technology consumed everything.

My first finish for this year (Path) Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones

If you have never read this author, and enjoy the history of Britain, I highly recommend him. Never dry and always exciting and suspenseful in his stories.

I have one of Dan Jones’ other books in my gifts to be read stack. He also has made documentaries for History Hit, which are available on YouTube.

Ron wrote: "Tyler wrote: "For my first read, for Code, I read The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness and definitely recommend it."

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I am to. I was born in 89.

I just finished An Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin. very informative