2024 Favorite Non-Fiction Books! 🏆
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- The cream of the crop at the tip of the top, these are my best reads from 2024!
Books Mentioned:
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Life on Other Planets by Aomawa Shields
Scribbles, Sorrows, and Russet Leather Boots: The Life of Louisa May Alcott by Liz Rosenberg
Shakespeare's Restless World: A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects by Neil MacGregor
The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future by Robert P. Jones
Built from the Fire: One Hundred Years in the Neighborhood that Refused to be Erased by Victor Luckerson
Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
Conspirituality by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, & Julian Walker
The Exvangelicals by Sarah McCammon
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Life on Other Planets sounds so interesting. I need to check it out. ❤️🌱
I think you'll really enjoy it!
Crossings was such a great book! Really glad you introduced me to that.
I still need to get to Eager Beavers after the RWYO!
Bumping up the Shakespeare book on my list!
I hope you are able to get to it, I am pretty sure you'll enjoy the information and context it adds.
Excellent list! I am really sorry I missed Crossings in last year’s BTP reading. I need to swing back around to it.
Crossings is such a fantastic book for nature lovers for sure, I hope you are able to get to it!
Thanks for the video! I found several books to add to my TBR! If you enjoyed the Louisa May Alcott book, you may also enjoy Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson. It is a dual biography that focuses on both Louisa and Bronson Alcott.
Thank you so much for the suggestion! I don't think I had heard of it before, so glad you put it on my radar. I happened to read a couple different things with some amount of overlap in place/time at the point when I read the Alcott bio, that made me realize I know so little about the Transcendentalists and the kind of major ideological moves happening in NE at the time.
Great list! It is probably no surprise that I put the Shakespeare title on my TBR (I also added The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy)
I absolutely think you will really like the Shakespeare, so much interesting added context!
And Hidden Roots is fantastic... when you've got the emotional energy for it.
Just found your channel!! I’ve never Heard of these Louisa May Alcott and Shakespeare books and now I need to read them!
Crossing also sounds fantastic!!
I’m also going to look into Doppelgänger.
Loved this video!
Well welcome, so glad to have you! Hopefully you are able to check out some of those that intrigued you and enjoy them. I did read both the Alcott biography and one about LM Montgomery (author of Anne of Green Gables) both by Liz Rosenberg last year, the Montgomery bio was fantastic as well, just didn't quite make my favorites - so well worth trying anything by her you can get your hands on. The author of Crossings also has a book all about beavers I must check out now, because he was such a wonderfully engaging writer.
@ Wonderful! I’ll look for those as well!
I am very interested in reading Life On Other Planets!
Such a great memoir, I hope you are able to give it a try. I happened to read City in the Middle of Night by Charlie Jane Anders just after it and she was thanked there for consulting on how the planet would behave.
@@ReadBecca I really enjoyed City in the Middle of Night!
So many great microhistories. Built for the Fire sounds extremely interesting. I grew up in Oklahoma and didn't learn anything about this horrible tragedy. *sigh*
I'm curious if people leaving the evangelical churches is speeding up or I'm just more aware of the deconstruction happening 🤔
I didn't know you were from OK! In Hidden Roots of White Supremacy, the author had kind of the same journey with the story of Emmett Till, being from the state, having an education that didn't ever bring it up (with political efforts to not do so). Built from the Fire was definitely a solid read and some important history that has only recently got a spotlight.
I think it's probably a bit of both. There are some good articles and wikipedia entries on it, but I'm snagging this bit from the "Decline of Christianity in the Western World" wiki entry:
The Public Religion Research Institute's 2020 Census of American Religion showed that the overall decline of white Christians in America had slowed, stabilizing at around 44% of the population. It also showed that, contrary to expectations, white evangelicals had continued to decline and that they were now outnumbered by white mainline Protestants. Conversely, the Pew Research Center found in 2022 that the decline had continued to accelerate over the previous fifty years.