Hey everyone, I’m love historical/event nonfiction books. Can someone recommend me a good book, I was going to get ‘Into Thin Air’ by Jon Krakauer but it’s unavailable atm.
I am a go to the library and actually rent the book person.
I appreciate you!
Hello!
I recently been wondering about how we aproach housing. As i do not know anything of the subject i would like to hear any recomendations or directions that anyone may have.
I would like to get in to housing as public policy rather than investment. Public policy and that kind of stuff.
Any options?
I often wonder what life was like in Germany after the end of WW2. Any great books about the common man and how they dealt with their own beliefs, deceptions, etc...? Were there people that bought into Naziism that were then shocked after the camps were discovered or liberated?
I do love to read, just not via books, I love poems in Colossus by Plath, WB Yeats and Whitman’s collected poems, mythology, Orwell’s 1984, my most loved movie is Amadeus 1984, i am a fashion designer and painter. Lil introduction for better recommendations :)
been reading more nonfiction lately and keep running into books about agriculture or gardening that are either written for people with acres of land or so dumbed down they say nothing useful. i grow things in containers on a small balcony, which is basically nothing in the grand scheme of agriculture, but i got pulled into a book about soil biology a while back and it sent me down a rabbit hole.
curious what books this sub has read that deal with plants, growing, ecology, that kind of territory. not looking for howto manuals. more the kind of thing that explains why something works the way it does, or the history behind how we think about plants and land. science writing that actually respects the reader.
i teach fourth grade so i spend a lot of time thinking about how information gets communicated to people who don't already know things. good nonfiction does the same thing. a lot of gardening books fail at this badly.
if you've read something that changed how you think about plants, soil, ecosystems, whatever adjacent thing, drop it. even if it's older.
Any really good books you've read about experiencing something devastating? Like the Wave, the one by Susan Klebold...it can be a disease, nature/animal attack, losing someone...just no politics please like first they killed my father etc
Hey, I have recently gotten back into reading and looking for suggestions of any and all kinds, fiction and non-fiction fiction, I want to learn about new topics.
Maybe some books that you would read if you were studying English literature.
Some books that would change the way I see books.
Some comedy books.
Social science books.
Thank you!
Finished it feeling mad and sad but glad I read it.
I genuinely don't even know where to start with this book.
It felt so real that it made me overly aware while reading. There were moments where I had to stop and just sit with what I'd read because they were too disturbing to take in all at once. And knowing that all of it actually happened somehow makes it hit even harder.
Tara didn't just deal with physical pain. She went through years of emotional manipulation, denial, and abandonment. The people who were supposed to protect her — her own family — repeatedly turned their backs on her when she needed them the most.
And still, she fought her way through it.
What stayed with me the most was watching her slowly outgrow the environment that had spent her entire life trying to define her. She gradually developed a mind of her own, questioned what she had always been told to believe, and built an identity separate from everything she had been taught.
You can't help but respect her for that.
She didn't just get an education; she built a whole new identity out of the rubble of everything she was told to believe.
This isn't a book that shocks you because of some huge plot twist. It's the slow, painful truth of it all that stays with you.
Absolutely worth reading.
Has anyone else read Educated? What was the moment or part of the book that stayed with you the longest?
My boyfriend(19) told me that he wants to start reading. He never read any except the classics for school but even that he never finished to the end. Now he wants to start. I love to read and Ive read many books but the books that i read aren’t his type really. Im into romance and non fiction but hes the guy who loves history and hes just interested in everything literally, he likes to know something about everything and is really smart and intelligent guy. I wouldn’t buy him some basic hustory books because he already knows a lot and i dont think it would keep him interested. He also likes politics and philosophy he had interest in 1984 and Sun Tzu so maybe i should get him something like that but im not so sure. I really want to put him onto reading so thats why its important for me to buy him a right one.
*hes not into scifi, fantasy and so on
If someone has any recommendations it would be really helpful!!
Hello everyone!
In order to get some more discussions going about different Non Fiction books we will have a weekly thread to talk about different sub-genres or topics.
Which books do you think are good beginner books for someone that wants to learn a bit more about the topic or wants to explore the subgenre? Which books are your personal favorites?
I’m a beginner when it comes to nonfiction. Most of my life, I’ve been reading science fiction/fantasy/adventure. Lately, I read Humankind by Rutger Bregman, and I really enjoyed it. In the past, I’ve read some nonfiction books, mostly related to World War II (I’m Polish). Do you have any recommendations for a rookie? Maybe some must-read books or your favorite in this genre?
The Hot Wheels in the corner is for scale. This book is massive. But the color full page pictures are breathtaking. It’s so big that it’s very heavy and that makes it hard to hold. I do not have room to lay it out anywhere for reading. I might have to take it back to the library and spend time there reading it. I have a fascination with Pompeii and Herculaneum. I got this book thru an inter library loan.
I'm looking for a nonfiction book for a young adult in their early 20s who has been having a difficult couple of years. Anxiety and depression have made school and work challenging, and I think they're struggling with feeling behind compared with other people their age.
I'd love to send them something that might offer a little hope, perspective, or encouragement without feeling like a preachy "get your life together" self-help book. Ideally, something compassionate and engaging that speaks to feeling lost, rebuilding confidence, figuring out what comes next, or realizing that your life doesn't have to follow a traditional timeline.
Memoirs, psychology, philosophy, or more unconventional nonfiction are all welcome. I'm especially interested in books that might resonate with a young man who isn't necessarily looking for a mental-health book but could use something that makes the future feel a little bigger and more hopeful.
What would you recommend?
Woodworking is how I decompress, so I've spent a fair amount of time reading around the history of tools, joinery, and craft traditions. Most of what I find is either a howto manual or a romanticized retrospective that skips the actual process detail. What I'm looking for is the middle ground: books that document how a trade or craft developed over time in a way that's specific and honest about the work itself.
I got more out of reading about the construction of medieval cathedrals than I expected because the authors dealt with the real engineering constraints and labor problems, not just the finished product. That kind of specificity is what I want more of.
Not limited to woodworking. Shipbuilding, furniture making, blacksmithing, any documented history of how skilled trades actually operated and evolved. Primary sources or wellresearched histories both work. I'm less interested in the cultural celebration angle and more in how people solved practical problems with the limited materials and knowledge they had to develop by hand.
If there are books that touch on how craft knowledge was transmitted, apprenticeship structures, that kind of thing, those would be useful too. The oral and undocumented nature of trade knowledge is something I find genuinely interesting and haven't found well covered yet.
These are typically the books that concerns both the individual and the society. This is one particular theme that I have always been interested into.
Any suggestions? Looking for stories of delusional startups committing fraud, people getting wealthy quickly from breaking the law, etc, hopefully as well written as Bad Blood!