Booklist Queen's 2023 Reading Challenge - hosted by booklistqueen

Fiction & Nonfiction Pairing - Nonfiction Selection
Time to read a pair of books - a fiction and a nonfiction book that go together. Either about a similar topic, with a similar setting, or maybe with the same author. 
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself

The Autobiographies #1

Frederick Douglass

125 pages • paperback • 1845

nonfiction autobiography classics history race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Peter Godfrey-Smith

272 pages • digital • 2016

nonfiction philosophy science informative reflective medium-paced
The Summer of Fall: Gravity is a bitch, but i'm still standing by Laura Lippman

The Summer of Fall: Gravity is a bitch, but i'm still standing

Laura Lippman

1 hour, 26 minutes • audio • 2023 user-added

emotional funny reflective slow-paced
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

343 pages • paperback • 1965

nonfiction classics true crime dark informative sad slow-paced
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Austin Channing Brown

3 hours, 54 minutes • audio • 2018

nonfiction memoir race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury

A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

Neil Bradbury

320 pages • digital • 2022

nonfiction science true crime dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny by Mike Dash

Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny

Mike Dash

13 hours • audio • 2002

nonfiction history true crime dark informative fast-paced
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth

The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

The Midwife Trilogy #1

Jennifer Worth

352 pages • paperback • 2002

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger by Ken Perenyi

Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger

Ken Perenyi

314 pages • paperback • 2012

nonfiction art biography crime memoir true crime informative fast-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

352 pages • hardcover • 2010

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced