Hi, I’m looking to expand the nonfiction I read since I typically read fiction. Below are subjects I am looking to get into more but any good non fiction rec will do.
religious history
atheism
pagan religions / witchcraft
astrology
mental health / physical health
sociology
beginner philosophy
memoirs
Ancient Rome / Ancient Greece
Medieval history
feminism
social justice
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Ashkenazi Herbalism by Deatra Cohen
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang
Being Seen by Elsa Sjunneson
Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong
Being Heumann by Judith Heumann
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
Livewired by David Eagleman
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
A Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer
24 Hours in Ancient Athens by Philip Matyszak
24 Hours in Ancient Rome by Philip Matyszak
Disability visibility by Alice Wong
*SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome* by Mary Beard
*Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind* by Edith Hall
*Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization* by Richard Miles
*The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire* by Edward Gibbon
*The Twelve Caesars* by Suetonius
*Alexander the Great* by Robin Lane Fox
*Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle* by Juliet Barker
*The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness* by John Waller
*A Short History of Byzantium* by John Julius Norwich
*Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy* by John Julius Norwich
*Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter’s* by R. A. Scotti