12 Months, 12 Nonfictions - hosted by zukythebookbum

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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

Maggie O'Farrell

290 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nanjala Nyabola

Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move

Nanjala Nyabola

264 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays race travel challenging reflective slow-paced
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World by Sarah Stewart Johnson

The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World

Sarah Stewart Johnson

288 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction memoir science adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya

The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

Clemantine Wamariya

8 hours, 59 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced
Death and the Afterlife: A Chronological Journey, from Cremation to Quantum Resurrection by Clifford A. Pickover

Death and the Afterlife: A Chronological Journey, from Cremation to Quantum Resurrection

Clifford A. Pickover

224 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
The Year of Magical Thinking Adaptation Audible Original by Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking Adaptation Audible Original

Joan Didion

1 hour, 28 minutes • first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction biography memoir play emotional reflective slow-paced
America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster by Mary Kay McBrayer

America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster

Mary Kay McBrayer

224 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction true crime dark informative fast-paced
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

Yeonmi Park

273 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring sad medium-paced
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

316 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond by Bruce Greyson

After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond

Bruce Greyson

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction informative mysterious tense medium-paced