#NonficNov: Week 1 Year in Non-Fiction

• Week 1: (Oct 28 to Nov 01)
• Hashtag: #NonficNov
• Hosted by:  Julz of Julz Reads
  

 

• Stats:  books read between  –>  01 November 2018 – 31 October 2019
• Read 61 non-fiction books –> 29% of total books read
• Most read:  (see list)
• Favoriet non-fiction: –>   Everywhere I Look – H. Garner

Conclusion:

1. This was a book I did not want to end.
2. Garner’s insights for instance  about Russel Crowe’s filmography
3. or an Australian Ballet company were mesmerizing.
4. But my favorite essay was ‘The Insults of Age”.
5. This will be recognizable for every 60+’er!
6. Helen Garner’s writing is clean and crisp
7. ..nothing is slick or shallow.
8. It is “reading caviar” !

 

Reviews:

Memoirs/personal essays

1. A Woman’s Experiences in the Great War – L. Mack
2. Thick – Tessie Cottom
3. Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger  – F. Wright
   
4. Can You Tolerate This? – A. Young –>   #HiddenGem  most recommended
   
5. A Time of Gifts – Patrick Leigh Fermor
6. The First Casualty – Peter Greste
7. We Can Make a Life – C. Henry
8. Le Lambeau – P. Lançon
9. Aunts Up the Cross – R. Dalton
10. Memoir: J McGahern
11. Everywhere I Look – H. Garner
12. Axiomatic – M. Tumarkin

 

Biography:

1. In Extremis: War Correspondent Marie Colvin – L. Hilsum
2. Sisters In Law (S. Day ‘O Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg) – L. Hirshman
3. Pulitzer – J. McGrath Morris
4. The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke – J.C. Stewart
5. No Friend but the Mountains – B. Boochani
6. Teacher – G. Stroud
7. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom – D. Blight
8. Fouché – E. de Waresquiel
9. Je suis fou de toi – D. Bona (Jeanne Voilier and lover poet Paul Valéry)
   
10. Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook – J. Kent
11. James Tiptree, jr. The Double Life Alice Sheldon – J. Phillips

 

Theatre

1. Twenty-First Century American Playwrights – C. Bigsby
2. 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write – S. Ruhl
3. August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle: 13 critical essays – editor S. Shannon

 

Health

1. All-Day Fat Burning Diet – Y. Elkaim (…I lost weight!)
   

 

History

1. Deep Time Dreaming – B. Griffiths
2. Age of Eisenhower – W. Hitchcock
3. The Mueller Report – R. Mueller
4. The Art of Time Travel – T. Griffiths
5. Stamped From the Beginning – I.X. Kendi
6. The History of the Church – Eusebius
7. The Twelve Caesars – Suetonius
8. The Billion Dollar Spy – D. Hoffman
9. America’s War for the Greater Middle East – A. Bacevich
10. These Truths – Jill Lepore
11. Ghosts of the Tsunami – R. L. Parry

 

Social History

1. Evicted: Poverty and Profit – M. Desmond
2. The Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture – S. Pinsker
3. The Coddling of the American Mind – G. Lukianoff, J. Haidt –>   #MustRead  #Eye-opener!!

 

Literature

1. Writers on Writers: Patrick White – Christos Tsiolkas
   
2. Poemcrazy – S. Wooldridge
3. On Poetry – Glyn Maxwell
4. The British Short Story – A. Maunder
5. The Cambridge Introduction to The American Short Story – M. Scofield
6. Moby-Dick as Philosophy – M. Anderson
7. Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll – G. Beer
8. Literary Brian Friel Companion – M. Snodgrass
9. Essay: From Monaghan to the Grand Canal ( Dublin) – S. Heaney 
10. The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe – S. Peeples
11. George Eliot: Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writing
12. The Complete Essays  – M. de  Montaigne

 

Indigenous (Aboriginal, Indonesian)

1. The Tall Man – Chloe Hooper
2. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia – editor Anita Heiss
3. Indonesia etc: Exploring the Improbable Nation – E. Pisani
   
4. Not Just Black and White – Lesley and Tammy Williams

 

True Crime

1. The Arsonist – C. Hooper
   
2. Trace: who killed Maria James?
3. The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island – C. Hooper

Science

1. The Best Australian Science Writing 2018 – editor J. Pickre