10 Favorite Underrated Nonfiction Books!
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- Let’s chat about ten of my favorite nonfiction books that I feel are underrated and deserve more attention.
#nonfiction #favorites #booktube
Meena Alexander, Fault Lines (1993): / fault-lines
Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café (2016): / at-the-existentialist-caf
Maggie Doherty, The Equivalents (2020): / the-equivalents
Rose George, Nine Pints (2018): / nine-pints
Katherine McCormack, Women in the Picture (2020): / women-in-the-picture
Ann Morgan, The World Between Two Covers - Reading the Globe (2015): / the-world-between-two-...
Emer O’Toole, Girls Will Be Girls (2015): / girls-will-be-girls
Geneviève von Petzinger, First Sign (2016): / the-first-signs
Paola Ramos, Finding LatinX (2020): / finding-latinx
Rafia Zakaria, The Upstairs Wife (2015): / the-upstairs-wife
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By the way:
I stole the name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/boo...
I also wrote some books:
New novel - published in Dutch on 30 December 2020:
De juiste houding: www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20...
The Decision (2015): hauspublishing.com/fiction/the...
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php...
Dutch non-fiction: De goede advocaat (2017): www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/D...
as Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt), The Posthumus Mysteries:
- Lonely Graves (2014)
- Lives Lost (2015)
- Deadly Secrets (June 2016)
www.hodder.co.uk/authors/deta...
and for German readers:
- Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
- Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
- Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/auto...
I would definitely watch an hour of nonfiction recommendations and commentary!
Don't tempt me! ☺️
Yes we want! A hour long video about nonfiction 😊
You guys are insatiable! I love it! 😂
One hour sounds amazing
Be careful what you wish for ☺️
That’s so interesting because I thought Between Two Covers was just a compilation of reviews and now I’m much more interested in reading it!
Ah, fantastic, I saved the book for you! ☺️
I am adding The Upstairs Wife to my wish list! I had never heard of it and it sounds fantastic.
It's really interesting and I learnt quite a lot!
Well, that's given me some food for thought!. Thank you for this list Britta, I'll be on the lookout for some of these titles.
So happy to hear you've enjoyed the list!
I added Women in the Picture to my TBR. Thank you!
That is wonderful! Enjoy!
Thank you for the recommendations. I added a lot of them to my tbr.
That is wonderful, happy to hear that!
Oh, I’m happy to see your enthusiasm for The First Signs. That’s in my queue for December, since it looked engaging.
I really loved it, and i hope you will, too!
Hi Britta, I am Latina, half, Puerto Rican, and I can really relate to what you said about Latinx people not always getting along. The cultures are diverse between same Mexican and Puerto Rican and the different South American countries. A Cuban icon singer Celia Cruz wrote songs about getting along with each other. I love nonfiction and I’ve had a great November of reading. Thank you for your recommendations. Aloha.
Yes, that is something that I learned from Finding LatinX.Very happy that you had such a good Nonfiction November! Happy reading.
The Equivalents sounds like a great group biography--a niche genre, for sure!
Yes, the book is a really wonderful insight into this group of women, and also into the difficulties for women artists at the time.
What an excellent roundup of books, I’m excited about quite a few. I’m going to recommend one for you that would be prominent on the list if I were doing this: The Diary of Helena Morley, which is the memoir/ diary of a young girl in late 19th century rural Brazil in a mining town. The extra treat is that is was translated by poet Elizabeth Bishop, who met the author when she lived in Brazil.
Oh that diary sounds fantastic, thank you very much for the tip! Seems like something for the 1001-list! I dnt have that many Brazilian books on the list. ❤️
At the extentialist cafe is exactly what I need. I am interested in philosophy, but not in the abstract, academic sense it is often tought. Thank you so much for this brilliant video😊
Aww, thank you so much for your lovely comment! And I hope you will enjoy Existentialist Café as much as I did.
I enjoyed Women in the Picture very much -- read due to a previous mention by you.
Several of these sound very interesting, I'll check my library.
So happy that you've enjoyed Women in the Picture!
My nonfiction reading tends to centre around
Psychiatry/psychology/ mental health
Medicine/ medical history
Sociology/ human geography
The best book read this year so far is
My Fourth Time , We Drowned by Sally Hayden
☘️👋🍀📚📖📕☕️💐
Such interesting topics! And My Fourth Time was a harrowing read...
Wonderful video, definitely enjoyed it. “The Upstairs Wife” sounds fascinating. I just finished reading ‘The Guests of the Sheik” which is a peek inside women’s lives in 1950’s Iraq; “The Upstairs Wife” would be a great follow on.
Oh, yes, the Guests of the Sheik is on my 1001-list! ☺️
Good job on the twenty minutes, I need to aim for brevity myself. But, truth to tell, I’d be happy for you to go on and on. I’m going to try _Fault Lines_ because I recently read another mildly chaotic poet’s memoir and want to give another a try.
I'm NOTORIOUSLY bad at brevity! 😂 And Fault Lines is really worth a try, I hope you will like it.
The Equivalents sounds really good. I'll look for that. Many others now on my radar too as always. ty.
That's great!
Thank you for introducing me to a wonderful range of books. I have booked my seat at the Existentialist Cafe.
☺️ Have a cafe au lait and a croissant!
certainement! (if I can say that in an existentialist café - I may get thrown out)@
Wonderful recommendation video!
Thank you very much! ❤️
I loved At the Existentialist Cafe! She almost made me want to read Heidegger. And that’s saying something given how dense his writings are. :). I need to read her book on Montaigne.
The Montaigne book is great as well. I loved both.
Only almost, I hope. 😂 I had to read him at university and hated every single minute of it (and I'm German, I mean, hey, I'm used to dense writing...)
Oh thats great to hear!
World Between Two Covers sounds like the book Ros should write about her scallydandling journey! :P
Yes, yes, yes! ☺️
I had to order The First Signs, as I seem to be fascinated by the connection between the female and early art and symbols!. My stack of books is growing, but the practical self asks why a woman closing in on seventy needs to ponder iconography. I don't know. Why is there air?
Hahaha, your comment made me laugh. And why should a woman closing in on 70 NOT ponder iconography? Right? ☺️
I really enjoyed _At the Existentialist Cafe_.
Happy to hear that!!