It’s the final week of of Nonfiction November and I’ve had a lovely time as usual – thank you so much to all the hosts! This week it’s New to my TBR time! I’ve learned from my first year and I now a) put this together as I go along, b) remember to note down where I saw each book, too! And I then saved it to post at the end of the week because I usually see books on other people’s roundups that I fancy. This year, I found a new blog to follow from someone who added one of my books to their roundup! For me, these books aren’t necessarily going on my TBR right away, but are going on my wishlist.
Week 5: (November 29-December 3) — New to My TBR with Jaymi at The OC Bookgirl: It’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books! Which ones have made it onto your TBR?
Books I have added to my Wishlist this November
Richard Seabrook – “All the Devils are Here” – exploring the dying towns of coastal Kent, seen on 746Books’ Week 2: Book Pairings post
Hanif Abdurraquib – “A Little Devil in America” – essays on Black artists and Black expression seen on NancyElin’s blog review
Amy Ettinger – “Sweet Spot” – exploring the ice cream parlours of America, courtesy of Plucked from the Stacks’ Book Pairings post
Rachel Johnson – “A Diary of the Lady” – revamping the elderly, staid magazine. From Scones and Chaises Longues’ Book Pairings.
David Epstein – “The Sports Gene” – on whether sports ability is nature or nurture. From The Thousand Book Project’s Be the Expert post.
Ian Williams – “Disorientation” – essays on being Black in Canada. Suggested by Reading in Bed on my Be the Expert post
Amrit Wilson – “Finding a Voice” – essays by South Asian women in the UK in 1978, updated in 2018. Seen on The Market Gardener Reader’s My Year in Nonfiction post and already bought and in my house!
Michael Twitty – “The Cooking Gene” – African American food memor. Seen on What’snonfiction’s Be the Expert post
What about last year’s list?
These are the books I added to my wishlist last year.
“American Wolf” by Nate Blakeslee
“Between Stone and Sky” by Whitney Brown
“Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah – I have downloaded this for Kindle
Collectiva Sambra “Pandemic Solidarity” – I bought a print copy and it’s working its way up through my TBR
Raynor Winn’s “The Salt Path” and “The Wild Silence” – my friend Verity gave me both of these, I read “The Salt Path” with my best friend (review here) and we have “The Wild Silence” to read in the fullness of time.
So four out of six purchased or otherwise acquired and one read so far!
mallikabooks15
Dec 03, 2021 @ 10:11:50
Finding a Voice sounds interesting; I’ve been meaning to look up the Trevor Noah as well, but as always, just too many in the queue🙂 hope you enjoy these. I’ll keep a look out for your reviews
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Liz Dexter
Dec 03, 2021 @ 10:15:37
Yes, it’s so lovely to find it reissued as I found it fascinating the first time I read it!
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Rebecca Foster
Dec 03, 2021 @ 16:36:32
I’ll see if my hubby wants to read American Wolf and if not/afterwards send it your way.
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Liz Dexter
Dec 05, 2021 @ 14:52:43
Oh, fab, thank you!
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Wendy
Dec 04, 2021 @ 00:23:10
I’d still like to read Trevor Noah’s book. it’s supposed to be good!
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Liz Dexter
Dec 05, 2021 @ 14:52:58
Yes, I do need to get to that one!
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whisperinggums
Dec 04, 2021 @ 01:22:47
I sorta captured some as I went along, but I wasn’t thorough about it so my list was a bit ad hoc.
I love that you reflected on last year’s list. Like you, mine is more wishlist than TBR though I am determined to read a couple from mine. I like quite a few of your choices.
From you last year reflections, I have the Trevor Noah (sent to my by my American friend) and would love to find time to read it. I put Wynn’s The salt path on my reading group schedule suggestions, but it didn’t get picked up. I thought it might because we have some keen walkers.
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Liz Dexter
Dec 05, 2021 @ 15:01:54
The first year I did Nonfiction November, I just presented a list of books I was interested in, no links or mentions who I got them from. Then I saw everyone else’s and was filled with horror, so now I start a post at the start of the month and add things on as I go!
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wadholloway
Dec 05, 2021 @ 11:05:09
I really hope sports ability is nature and not nurture. I’d hate to think the only reason I’m not a sportsman is because I didn’t try hard enough as a kid (though I’m probably glad my parents didn’t try and make me a tennis pro at age 6).
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Liz Dexter
Dec 05, 2021 @ 13:08:43
I think there’s an assumption that Caribbean / West African people are naturally good at sprinting and East African people are naturally good at long distance running, but in the former there’s a massive culture of sprinting in Jamaica etc and in the latter there’s the altitude giving a boost, so it’s not just genetics. I think that’s what the book is getting at.
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Cari
Dec 05, 2021 @ 20:48:28
What a fun way to look at TBR process. In the Book Files group we were having a similar conversation and one person had an interesting that she couldn’t acquire a book by an author if she still had one unread by that same author
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Liz Dexter
Dec 06, 2021 @ 09:26:18
Yes, I don’t normally note where I get my ideas from but do for this month. And that’s a very specific rule, isn’t it – I love it!
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heavenali
Dec 06, 2021 @ 20:35:13
You have a great non fiction November, I read 3 (all fairly memoir based) which is lots for me, fiction junkie that I am.
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Liz Dexter
Dec 07, 2021 @ 10:36:50
That is a nice lot for you and so many of mine are memoir-based. The water one is a bit … chewy.
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Deb Nance at Readerbuzz
Dec 09, 2021 @ 02:59:23
I don’t know how I missed Sweet Spot. And I do hope you will read American Wolf. One of my favorites of recent years.
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Liz Dexter
Dec 09, 2021 @ 07:06:23
There were a LOT of books around this November! And hopefully a copy is coming to me but it will find me when it needs to.
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Thomas
Dec 13, 2021 @ 03:37:09
Ooooh so appreciate this list, I’ve added Disorientation and A Little Devil in America to my tbr, and Disorientation looks particularly intriguing/aligned with what I usually read. In terms of the Sports Gene, I’m curious if the author will make any argument aside than how sports ability may be a combination of nature and nurture? Also yay I recognized the Trevor Noah title, which I read awhile ago and gave it four stars. Hope your reading has been going as well as possible. (:
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Liz Dexter
Dec 13, 2021 @ 09:45:18
Yes, I suspect that’s what it will come to, but I think it undermines the dangerous stereotyped view of “you come from an African/Caribbean heritage, you will be good at sprinting” and the really dreadful one that people descended from enslaved people somehow inherit some vile, ox-like strength, as a lot of it is in the cultures of places and socioeconomic, too.
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Marcie McCauley
Dec 26, 2021 @ 20:52:51
That seems like quite a reasonable number of TBR additions, really. Well done.
For anyone who enjoys Trevor Noah, he also has a podcast, The Daily Show, Ears Edition. It’s a great way to get a cursory glimpse of American news along the way with a bunch of laughs too.
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Liz Dexter
Dec 27, 2021 @ 12:47:43
I think so, and also they are on the wishlist, not (all, yet) on the TBR so no real dangers!
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