Nonfiction Nudges - hosted by bookcasey

Humanities or Politics
Bonus: Read a nonfiction book on your TBR to better understand a historic event, political topic, or societal phenomenon.
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Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection by Jeremy Nobel

Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection

Jeremy Nobel

288 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction psychology hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

352 pages • first pub 1792 (editions)

nonfiction classics feminism philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown

Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Brené Brown

8 hours, 51 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction psychology self help inspiring medium-paced
Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day by Philip Matyszak

Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day

Thames Hudson 5... a Day

Philip Matyszak

144 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous challenging informative fast-paced
Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer

Feminist, Queer, Crip

Alison Kafer

11 hours, 50 minutes • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective fast-paced
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008 by John Scalzi

Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008

Whatever #1

John Scalzi

368 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction essays funny informative fast-paced
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

622 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

5 hours, 40 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

287 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe by Diana Darke

Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe

Diana Darke

328 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective medium-paced