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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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 • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction memoir
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

343 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

nonfiction classics true crime dark mysterious tense 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 • first pub 2018 (editions)

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 • first pub 2022 (editions)

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 • first pub 2002 (editions)

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 • first pub 2002 (editions)

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 • first pub 2012 (editions)

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 • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo

An American Sunrise

Joy Harjo

116 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history poetry race emotional reflective medium-paced
Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters by Jason A. Ramos, Julian Smith

Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters

Jason A. Ramos, Julian Smith

5 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative fast-paced