As sad as it is, it’s time to wind down National Book Month. But don’t worry, I won’t be able to resist coming back to my favorite subject, food. Wait, I mean books.
My sister-in-love, Mary Ann, shares my passion for books and I recently asked her for her favorites. She very neatly sectioned her lists off and you can read about her all-time favorite fiction books here.
But, like me, she doesn’t limit herself to fiction. There are all sorts of delicious non-fiction books, of course. I hate to admit it, but I haven’t read any of her top non-fiction entries. But that’s about to change! I’ve put Heartland on my TBR list.
I haven’t included any Christian-focused selections in my list, because I want to devote a whole post to those.
So, without further ado…
Some of My Favorite Nonfiction
These aren’t in any order, although Unbroken may indeed be my Number 1. Wait, I’m not sure…No. Yes. I don’t know. The pressure! Okay, let’s go back to no particular order…
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
- The Color of Water by James McBride
- Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
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Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by
Mary Ann’s Non-Fiction Entries
- Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All The Answers Learned To Ask The Questions by Rachel Held Evans
- Not A Crime To Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America by Peter Edelman
- The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches From the Border by Francisco Cantu
- Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions Into Adulthood by Lisa Damour
- Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
Do you prefer reading fiction or nonfiction? What are some of your favorite memoirs or biographies? I’m in the mood for a good dose of truth, so please comment!
Chrystel
Thanks for the lists, Tracy! I have only read two of the ones you listed., can’t wait to explore the others. I enjoy both nonfiction and fiction with historical fiction being my favorite.
My favorite historical fictions include:
The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
All I Want and Daisy’s War by Shayne Parkinson
The Engineer’s Wife by Tracy Emerson Wood (of course I had to read this one.)
Bregdan Chronicles 1-8 by Ginny Dye (got a bit boring after the 8th one.)
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Nonfiction favorites include:
France on the Brink by Johnathan Fenby
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (I have hillbilly roots and grew up in the rust belt.)
Condoleezza Rice, A Memoir of my Extraordinary, Ordinary Family by Condoleezza Rice
Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts
Truman by David McCullough (Really like McCullough’s biographies)
Tracey Buchanan
I’m excited to check out your suggestions! Thanks!