Nonfiction November is one of my favorite blogging challenges. While I rarely participate in the weekly prompts, I love spending an entire month reading nothing but nonfiction. For me, this year looks to be the year of memoirs. You can learn more about this challenge here.
I've been saving these books for the better part of a year and I'm excited to finally get to them. Have you read any of them? Which should I start with?
I have Memorial Days on my holds list at the librarry and I didn't know Maggie O'Farrell had a nonfiction. Great list. Love your informative posts!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Tina. I love making lists. :) Started the Patchett book last night and stayed up far too late reading. I do love a good memoir!
DeleteGood list. Some of these look sad and about grief: Memorial Days, Truth & Beauty, and Grief is for People. I'm going to get out the Kleenex box! Hope you enjoy these. Have a great nonfiction month.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Susan. Yeah, those books could be sad, but I love the honesty of a good memoir. Started Patchett's the other night and it's so beautifully written.
DeleteI was very touched by I AM I AM I AM. I also think that Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life is fun and charming. Memorial Days was very good. I am a big Brooks fan. Grief is for People was good but I didn't find a lot I could relate to.
ReplyDeleteAnn, I'm looking forward to the O'Farrell memoir. I've read all of her novels now, with the exception of The Marriage Portrait. Hope to get to that before the end of the year. Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life might be a good palate cleanser between some of the more heavy memoirs. Thanks for your input!
DeleteI loved Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
ReplyDeleteJinjer, good to know!! I've had it on my shelf for a few years and am glad to finally make time to read it.
DeleteYAY! I found you! :D I have read I AM, I AM, I AM - it's good! fascinating, I think you will like it. And I've read Truth & Beauty as well as it's companion read (am I remembering correctly?) YES I am: Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy. Happy Memoir-Reading!
ReplyDeleteCare, yay! Glad you found me. Nice to hear that the O'Farrell memoir is good. I just started Patchett's book and should look into buying Grealy's. Yes, they are probably companion works. Thanks for stopping by! :)
DeleteI loved I Am, I Am I Am; could be my favourite Maggie Farrell. Obviously you can't go wrong with Ann Patchett. I'm intrigued that there are 2 books by Abigail Thomas, whom I've never heard of before. Enjoy your NF month!
ReplyDeleteElizabeth, well it seems that the O'Farrell book is high on everyone's list of great memoirs. I'll move it to the top of my stack and start once I've finished Patchett's. Gosh, she (Patchett) writes some beautiful lines. Abigail Thomas wrote a book that I read and loved many years ago. It's called A Three Dog Life. I read it in 2007 for the nonfiction challenge that year. My review is here. As I read it again, I love that I mention Nan (from Letters from a Hill Farm). Now I want to go and find her review and read it again.
DeleteI just found Three Dog Life at kobo for under $3. I'm looking forward to reading it and I love that there is a Nan connection
DeleteThat's a deal! I hope you enjoy it. I may do a re-read before reading her others. Hmm.
DeleteI haven't read any of the books on your list, but Geraldine Brooks is always an author that works for me.
ReplyDeleteHelen, I've only read a couple of Geraldine Brooks' books. I might try to read more in 2026.
DeleteI've been meaning to read the Maggie O'Farrell memoir since I've enjoyed a couple of her novels. I hope you like it!
ReplyDeleteJoy, I've being reading all of O'Farrell's novels this past year. Some have been very good and others somewhat disappointing. I hear her memoir is excellent, so I'm excited about that!
DeleteEncyclopedia of an Ordinary Life is a book I loved. I met the author twice, once after she wrote and published this book, and later after she posted a sequel of a sort, when she was already quite sick with the cancer that would kill her. She was such a lively person, creative, fun. An inspiring reminder to live big!
ReplyDeleteDeb, how wonderful to have met Amy Krouse Rosenthal. I have a feeling this book will be one of my favorites. Once I read it, I'll look at some of her videos, too.
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