Beyond the Bookends 2024 Reading Challenge - hosted by jackie_beyondthebookends

November- Read a Feel good Nonfiction
The November prompt is to Read a Feel good Nonfiction. With so much going on in the world, we were so happy to put together this list of uplifting reads. 

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Clanlands in New Zealand: Kilts, Kiwis, and an Adventure Down Under by Graham McTavish, Sam Heughan

Clanlands in New Zealand: Kilts, Kiwis, and an Adventure Down Under

Graham McTavish, Sam Heughan

288 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction memoir travel adventurous funny fast-paced
Funny Side Up: The Eggstremely Witty Joke Book by Mark White

Funny Side Up: The Eggstremely Witty Joke Book

Mark White

119 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction comics funny lighthearted medium-paced
Dad Is Fat by Jim Gaffigan

Dad Is Fat

Jim Gaffigan

5 hours, 26 minutes • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted fast-paced
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham

Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)

Lauren Graham

4 hours, 36 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir funny lighthearted fast-paced
Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them by Siân Evans

Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them

Siân Evans

368 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative inspiring slow-paced
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

Jim DeFede

6 hours, 29 minutes • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke

Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

Julia Cooke

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology travel informative medium-paced
The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt

The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

Nathalia Holt

400 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction art biography history informative inspiring medium-paced
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Brené Brown

287 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction psychology self help informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons by Kevin Hart

I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons

Kevin Hart

11 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions) user-added

nonfiction memoir funny reflective fast-paced