"The invention of nature" was in my wishlist for so long, and I finally got it as a birthday gift this year🌱🪲 Already a few chapters in and it's incredible! I hope to see it in one of your wrap-ups❤
Thanks for giving nonfiction literature some much-needed, Sunday morning love filled with sun🔆 That's the way to go ✅ Interesting vampire aesthetics as make-up
Very cool list of books, thank you very much! I will look for it. In turn, I want to say that the books of economist Ha-Joon Chang "Bad Samaritans" and "Economics on a Plate" were a pleasant discovery for me among non-fiction books. The book "Fundamentals. 10 keys to reality" by Nobel laureate Frank Wilchek is interesting. I also bought the book "Memoirs" by Carl Gustav Mannerheim. As for our lives, today the Russian army hit a children's park with a Shahed-type drone... many houses around have broken windows. Therefore, Eva Thompson's book "The Troubadours of the Empire. The Russian Empire and Colonialism" deserves attention. Thanks for your interesting video! Greetings from Ukraine, which is still holding on!
Alice, your style is so unique! If you have ever considered it, a video about style/fashion/clothing (alongside books) would be so fun! Thanks for the great book recs, definitely going to check out "Notes on a Silencing".
I have several of these on my shelves too! I’m trying to read one non-fiction a month this year. Last month I read On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage by Oliver Smith and enjoyed it. This month I’m reading Folklore Rising by Ben Edge.
Jane Austen at home is really good for those intrigued by the nuances of regency life and Miss Austen's daily world. A frequent friend on my bookshelf.
I've heard that The Salt Path is really good. I'm afraid it would be a difficult read, so I haven't read it yet. I have Say Nothing on my tbr for this year too. I just finished The Radium Girls and it was excellent. I do need a little bit of a reprieve before I read Say Nothing. I also want to reread a couple of my WWII memoirs because it's been a long time since I read them: Night by Elie Wiesel and In My Hands: Memoirs of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke. I just got The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan from the library and I'm looking forward to it.
The best nonfiction books to me are those where I nearly don't realize that I read nonfiction. A combination of biography and nature writing therefore always works well and I'm going to take a closer look on "The Flow." Have you read "The Outrun" by Amy Liptrop? That one was amazing with beautiful writing.
Say Nothing was great. I don't read a lot of nonfiction but two good books are The Demon of Unrest about the early days of the American civil war, and The Wide Wide Sea about Captain Cook's third and final voyage. Thanks for your list - Notes on a Silencing is now on my tbr.
I have read Say Nothing as part of an in person bookclub. It is an interesting book about an important time with lots of detail, but I don't really relate when people say it's an all-time favorite book. For me, it was a very dry nonfiction read. While it is interesting and you definitely will learn a lot, reading it did feel like an assignment. I'll be interested to hear when you think.
I was like, nonfictions? nahh, but then these actually sound really good. Also, all the books you choose have pretty covers and I really love that, pretty covers are really important for me, so it makes it easier for me to choose TwT
Currently reading Say Nothing! I highly recommend the audiobook, it's very engaging. I had to read the physical book along with the audio in the beginning because of the accent of the narrator 😅 but it breathes so much life into the text!
Ohhhh If you love books and stories about people climbing mountains, I would recommend Sir Edmund Hillary’s View from the summit about being the first men ( along with his sherpa) who climbed the Everest! I loved it. I also have a fascination with people who climb ( no idea why) but especially Mount Everest!
Interesting list. I haven't read any of the books. I'm currently reading a couple of interesting non-fiction books: Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death by Susana Monso and The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoe Schlanger
I read so little nonfiction and I always want to change that. My self challenge is at least one lol It may end up being Jeanette McCurdy's book, or maybe Britney Spears, because I've very curious about them, but I'm interested in some of the ones you mentioned too - Jane Austen at Home in particular! Someone I follow on Goodreads spent last year reading witchy non-fiction though and I saved a bunch of those to my TBR cause they seemed really fun and interesting and I am in my witchy era right now lmao
Notes on a Silencing I gave 4.5/5. There were huge sections I flew through. Definitely sad and frustrating. I gave the same rating to Say Nothing - both powerful stories. Eiger Dreams I read over 10 years ago now!😵I feel the same way about those kind of books - it's fascinating to see people pushing themselves, but I don't want to go on a mountaineering expedition. -Becks
Could not put The Salt Path down, pages just flew by easily. Need to find the sequel too. Jane Austen at Home drags a bit; I liked Lucy Worsley's Agatha Christie biography better.
Thanks Alice, I don't read enough non-stop fiction but want to. Lucy Worsley has a bk. about Agatha Christie also. I watch her on PBS, a bit wierd, but good historically. Wrote down some of what you suggested. Have a great week. Has been below zero here many times the past 2 wks😑 (S.E. Michigan, U.S. How about Norway??
We’re having that terrible weather where it’s switches between below freezing and not - so it snows, then it gets milder and it melts, it freezes, it rains then freezes, then snows on top of it 😂 It’s very interesting to walk around, I’ll say that 😂
Hi Alice, hope you will get through these books in 2025. I like art as well and recently bought same book by Will Gompertz. Going to read it this year as well 🙃 You are very lucky in Oslo with your National gallery (although, I was not impressed by the new building🫣) & Munck museum 😱 😀❤
Thank you! Yeees, the National Museum is super cool, but the outside is… well, it’s something 😂 If anything, it fits into the dreary vibe of winter here 😂
The Salt Path is amazing! It's so inspiring
"The invention of nature" was in my wishlist for so long, and I finally got it as a birthday gift this year🌱🪲
Already a few chapters in and it's incredible!
I hope to see it in one of your wrap-ups❤
Say Nothing is amazing. Also the drama series based on it.
Say Nothing is easily one of the best non-fiction books of the past twenty years. Enjoyed the miniseries as well.
I love Lucy Worsley! I think she is great! 😊
Yay! 🥰❤️
Thanks for giving nonfiction literature some much-needed, Sunday morning love filled with sun🔆
That's the way to go ✅ Interesting vampire aesthetics as make-up
Very cool list of books, thank you very much!
I will look for it.
In turn, I want to say that the books of economist Ha-Joon Chang "Bad Samaritans" and "Economics on a Plate" were a pleasant discovery for me among non-fiction books.
The book "Fundamentals. 10 keys to reality" by Nobel laureate Frank Wilchek is interesting.
I also bought the book "Memoirs" by Carl Gustav Mannerheim.
As for our lives, today the Russian army hit a children's park with a Shahed-type drone... many houses around have broken windows.
Therefore, Eva Thompson's book "The Troubadours of the Empire. The Russian Empire and Colonialism" deserves attention.
Thanks for your interesting video!
Greetings from Ukraine, which is still holding on!
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Loved the salt path and I have the next two to read and the Jane Austen at home on my shelf
Alice, your style is so unique! If you have ever considered it, a video about style/fashion/clothing (alongside books) would be so fun! Thanks for the great book recs, definitely going to check out "Notes on a Silencing".
Why thank you! 🥰 That could be interesting maybe, although I don’t really know what my style even is 😂
Hope you enjoy your reads 📚☕🍩❄️
Thanks for recommending some nonfiction- would love another video after you’ve read some of them!!
I read In the Shadow of Man in college and loved it! Can't wait to hear your thoughts! ❤
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I am reading Eiger Dreams right now and it's so much fun! You'll definitely love it!
I have several of these on my shelves too! I’m trying to read one non-fiction a month this year. Last month I read On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage by Oliver Smith and enjoyed it. This month I’m reading Folklore Rising by Ben Edge.
Jane Austen at home is really good for those intrigued by the nuances of regency life and Miss Austen's daily world. A frequent friend on my bookshelf.
The Flow sounds good!
Lucy Worsely is great. She does some interesting tv shows and she really brings history to life
Jane Goodall ❤ I would love to read that too
I've heard that The Salt Path is really good. I'm afraid it would be a difficult read, so I haven't read it yet. I have Say Nothing on my tbr for this year too. I just finished The Radium Girls and it was excellent. I do need a little bit of a reprieve before I read Say Nothing. I also want to reread a couple of my WWII memoirs because it's been a long time since I read them: Night by Elie Wiesel and In My Hands: Memoirs of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke. I just got The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan from the library and I'm looking forward to it.
I’m reading The Flow right now. It’s one of those books that I find quite dense, but I want to read every word because it’s so interesting.
Oooh love that! 😍
The best nonfiction books to me are those where I nearly don't realize that I read nonfiction. A combination of biography and nature writing therefore always works well and I'm going to take a closer look on "The Flow." Have you read "The Outrun" by Amy Liptrop? That one was amazing with beautiful writing.
Agree! I haven’t read that one, no 👀🥰
This is a very intriguing list. I want to read all of these! I read Lab Girl, which I liked a lot, but didn’t know she had written more.
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Say Nothing was great. I don't read a lot of nonfiction but two good books are The Demon of Unrest about the early days of the American civil war, and The Wide Wide Sea about Captain Cook's third and final voyage. Thanks for your list - Notes on a Silencing is now on my tbr.
I have read Say Nothing as part of an in person bookclub. It is an interesting book about an important time with lots of detail, but I don't really relate when people say it's an all-time favorite book. For me, it was a very dry nonfiction read. While it is interesting and you definitely will learn a lot, reading it did feel like an assignment. I'll be interested to hear when you think.
Agree
I was like, nonfictions? nahh, but then these actually sound really good.
Also, all the books you choose have pretty covers and I really love that, pretty covers are really important for me, so it makes it easier for me to choose TwT
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Currently reading Say Nothing! I highly recommend the audiobook, it's very engaging. I had to read the physical book along with the audio in the beginning because of the accent of the narrator 😅 but it breathes so much life into the text!
Love that! I wish I could concentrate on audiobooks 🥲
@@TheBookCastle I know that feeling, I only just started to get into them last year 😅
Ohhhh If you love books and stories about people climbing mountains, I would recommend Sir Edmund Hillary’s View from the summit about being the first men ( along with his sherpa) who climbed the Everest! I loved it. I also have a fascination with people who climb ( no idea why) but especially Mount Everest!
I’ve heard of that one but not read it yet! It looks so good 😍
Interesting list. I haven't read any of the books. I'm currently reading a couple of interesting non-fiction books: Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death by Susana Monso and The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoe Schlanger
I read so little nonfiction and I always want to change that. My self challenge is at least one lol It may end up being Jeanette McCurdy's book, or maybe Britney Spears, because I've very curious about them, but I'm interested in some of the ones you mentioned too - Jane Austen at Home in particular! Someone I follow on Goodreads spent last year reading witchy non-fiction though and I saved a bunch of those to my TBR cause they seemed really fun and interesting and I am in my witchy era right now lmao
Oooh witchy era is fantastic! 🥰 I haven’t read the Britney one, but McCurdy’s book was really interesting ❤️
@@TheBookCastle I've had the audiobook for a while now and heard great things! I'm looking forward to it :)
I want to continue reading non-fiction throughout the year, but since I'm not a huge non-fiction sometimes I forget to prioritize it.
I forget sometimes too ❤️
Notes on a Silencing I gave 4.5/5. There were huge sections I flew through. Definitely sad and frustrating. I gave the same rating to Say Nothing - both powerful stories. Eiger Dreams I read over 10 years ago now!😵I feel the same way about those kind of books - it's fascinating to see people pushing themselves, but I don't want to go on a mountaineering expedition. -Becks
Love it! 🥰❤️
Oh god, The Uninhabitable Earth is the only book to ever give me a panic attack lmao. I loved it but that was a tough read for sure.
Exactlyyyyy 😭😅
I really liked The Salt Path but not the sequel to it.
Could not put The Salt Path down, pages just flew by easily. Need to find the sequel too. Jane Austen at Home drags a bit; I liked Lucy Worsley's Agatha Christie biography better.
The Agatha Christie one looks great!
Have read The Invention of Nature and The Salt Path and Say Nothing probably because you mentioned then ?? 🤔
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Who does not love Lucy Worsley?!😮😅
I think the reason you've been seeing this book a lot is because this year is 250 years since Jane Austen was born.
Aaaaah that would make sense! 🥰
Thanks Alice, I don't read enough non-stop fiction but want to. Lucy Worsley has a bk. about Agatha Christie also. I watch her on PBS, a bit wierd, but good historically. Wrote down some of what you suggested. Have a great week. Has been below zero here many times the past 2 wks😑 (S.E. Michigan, U.S. How about Norway??
We’re having that terrible weather where it’s switches between below freezing and not - so it snows, then it gets milder and it melts, it freezes, it rains then freezes, then snows on top of it 😂 It’s very interesting to walk around, I’ll say that 😂
Hi Alice, hope you will get through these books in 2025.
I like art as well and recently bought same book by Will Gompertz. Going to read it this year as well 🙃
You are very lucky in Oslo with your National gallery (although, I was not impressed by the new building🫣) & Munck museum 😱 😀❤
Thank you! Yeees, the National Museum is super cool, but the outside is… well, it’s something 😂 If anything, it fits into the dreary vibe of winter here 😂