I had a goal to read more non fiction this year and while I have achieved my goal my non fiction count for 2022 was 0. So far this year I’ve read Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt and First Break All The Rule by Gallup. I enjoyed them all but now I’m stuck with what to read or listen to next. Extra points for a well narrated audio book to enjoy during the commute but I’m very open to a traditional book too.
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Just a few I’ve read recently…
Incidents in the life of a slave girl. The elephant man. Counting the cost. The last victim.
Honorable mentions for fiction but based around truth: the baby thief. Maude.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Endurance
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Bill Bryson
Jon Krakauer
On Writing by Stephen King
From Truant to Anime Screenwriter by Mari Okada
* The Great Turning: From Empire To Earth Community (David C. Korten)
* No Contest: The Case Against Competition (Alfie Kohn)
* Daring Greatly: How The Courage To Be Vulnerable Transforms The Way We Live, Love, Parent, And Lead (Brené Brown)
* The Story Of Stuff (Annie Leonard)
* The News: A User’s Manual (Alain De Botton)
* Salt Sugar Fat: How The Food Giants Hooked Us (Michael Moss)
* Trust Us, We’re Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future (John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton)
* Turning To One Another: Simple Conversations To Restore Hope To The Future (Margaret J. Wheatley)
* Lost Connections: Uncovering The Real Causes of Depression–And The Unexpected Solutions (Johann Hari)
* The Search For A Nonviolent Future (Michael N. Nagler)
* The Hidden Brain (Shankar Vedantam) / Idiot Brain (Dean Burnett)
* The Myth Of Choice (Kent Greenfield) / The Paradox Of Choice (Barry Schwartz)
Max Tegmark’s speculative non-fiction **Life 3.0**. It offers the spectrum of futures mankind faces from the ascent of artificial intelligence.
It’s information-dense, and questions/issues raised in the book are appearing now in court rooms, news articles, and subreddits.
*What My Bones Know*
*Crying in H Mart*
*The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting*
The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett
1491 by Charles Mann
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark