The Non-Fiction One 2021 - hosted by charlieeee

The Social/Political/Economic One
Read any book from within this sphere. Similar to The Science One, this doesn’t need to be a heavy academic textbook. Themes could include: feminism; homelessness; racism within politics and wider society (education) etc.
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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Dara Horn

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages by François-Xavier Fauvelle

The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages

François-Xavier Fauvelle

280 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Reni Eddo-Lodge

261 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War by Yasmin Khan

The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War

Yasmin Khan

432 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Jia Tolentino

303 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism challenging reflective medium-paced
Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan

Women of the Raj

Margaret MacMillan

320 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Und morgen die ganze Türkei: Der lange Aufstieg des Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Kursbuch) by Deniz Yücel

Und morgen die ganze Türkei: Der lange Aufstieg des Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Kursbuch)

Deniz Yücel

30 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

medium-paced
Hauskonzert by Igor Levit

Hauskonzert

Igor Levit

304 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography music informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Iris Chang

360 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative sad slow-paced