Let's Talk Bookish; Reading Non-Fiction

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It's Friday, and perhaps it's time for a Let's Talk Bookish post courtesy of Book Nook Bits and Dinipanda Reads, and today's topic is reading non-fiction.


Here's the further prompts for today's discussion.
Happy Non-Fiction November! Do you read non-fiction? If you do read it, what do you love about it? What are your favourite categories to read about (i.e. true crime, historical, memoirs, self-help), and what are some of your favourite NF books? Do you have any tips for those who want to get into reading more non-fiction? If you don’t read non-fiction, what don’t you like about it? Do you think that will change (or has it already changed) over the years?
I'm one of those who enjoy reading non-fiction, especially as it gives me a chance to learn new things and dive into topics I'm interested in, whether it's history, feminism, social issues, or other topics. It also gives me a break from the historical inaccuracies and factual errors often found in historical fiction. No offense to authors who write historical fiction, but please do your research properly as some of us can spot such research errors a mile away.

As mentioned, I do enjoy reading non-fiction about history and feminism among other things, and a few books I could recommend are;
  • Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
  • My Name Is Selma: The remarkable memoir of a Jewish Resistance fighter and Ravensbruck survivor by Selma van de Perre
  • Last Stop Auschwitz: My Story of Survival from Within the Camp by Eddy de Wind
  • Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
  • Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive by Kristen J. Sollee
For anyone who wants to get into reading more non-fiction, I would suggest finding one or two topics you're interested in, and see if you can find some shorter non-fiction books to pick up, or the very least find some books that doesn't seem to daunting to read. Even though I enjoy reading non-fiction, I'm not always in the mood for a doorstopper of a book with 800 pages to put it that way.

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