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Oct 26, 2018 · Nonfiction books can be long and intimidating. So check out these 50 short nonfiction books that you can read in a day (or two).
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- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (2010) I read Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow when it first came out, and I remember its colossal impact so clearly—not just on the academic world (it is, technically, an academic book, and Alexander is an academic) but everywhere.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies (2010) In this riveting (despite its near 600 pages) and highly influential book, Mukherjee traces the known history of our most feared ailment, from its earliest appearances over five thousand years ago to the wars still being waged by contemporary doctors, and all the confusion, success stories, and failures in between—hence the subtitle “a biography of cancer,” though of course it is also a biography of humanity and of human ingenuity (and lack thereof).
- Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) As a strongly humanities-focused person, it’s difficult for me to connect with books about science.
- Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands (2010) Timothy Snyder’s brilliant Bloodlands has changed World War II scholarship more, perhaps, than any work since Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, an apt comparison given that Bloodlands includes within it a response to Arendt’s theory of the banality of evil (Snyder doesn’t buy it, and provides convincing proof that Eichmann was more of a run-of-the-mill hateful Nazi and less a colorless bureaucrat simply doing his job).
- Drawing Blood by Molly Crabapple. Both brilliant and beautiful, this memoir gives readers an inside look at the art world while also tackling issues of sexualization, political activism, and more.
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. This memoir in books is an old favorite of mine from the early 2000s. Nafisi writes of the secret book group she led, made up of her most committed female students, using the forbidden Western classics they read to give readers a nuanced look at what life was like in revolutionary Iran.
- The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy. After seeing Clancy speak on a panel at Book Riot Live—about using humor to tackle difficult topics—I had to buy her memoir.
- Love and Trouble by Claire Dederer. Almost eight years ago, Dederer wrote a yoga memoir: Poser. This memoir, on the other hand, is about the author reconciling the young woman she used to be with the woman she has become in midlife.
Dec 31, 2017 · After two years of careful consideration, Robert McCrum has concluded his selection of the 100 greatest nonfiction books of all time. Take a quick look back at five centuries of great writing.
Oct 26, 2017 · Expand your TBR with these 50 great narrative nonfiction books, from essays to creative nonfiction to literary journalism.
