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It's Week 3 of Nonfiction November where we're tasked with pairing a work of fiction with a nonfiction book. I found a couple of humorous pieces all about obituaries & obituary writers. #NonfictionNovember #bannedbooks #bookstodon

https://headsubhead.com/2025/11/10/nonfiction-book-pairings-2025/

Since it's #NonFictionNovember this It’s Weekend, Let’s Read, I'm re-sharing this post on my blog where you can download right here, right now, two #books about libraries and books (at the end of the post) thanks to @gutenberg_org

https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/its-friday-lets-read-catalogs-books/

Non-fiction November: choosing non-fiction

I just found out about #NonFictionNovember through Liz Dexter from Libro Full Time, hosted by Frances Spurrier at Volatile Rune. Each week has a theme to encourage you to read more non-fiction and this one is “choosing non-fiction”.

I realised that when I choose non-fiction to read (that is not for work), I usually tied it up to my fiction favourite readings. The picture above is a good example of this:

Books about books, libraries, booksellers, and the history of the book and reading;
Books about specific books or characters. Besides Aldridge’s Marple and Poirot, I could add Osborne’s The Life and Times of Agatha Christie, Poirot and Marple biographies of Anne Hart, companions, etc.;
Books about genres or subgenres, either as history or as a collection of essays. To Murder for Pleasure and The Golden Age of Murder, I could add HowDunnit, essays by The Detection Club members, Bloody Murder by Julian Symons, The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards, and others;
Autobiographies and biographies, to which I could add other authors like Austen, the Brontes, and Trollope;
More recently, I’ve been adding nature writing books to my TBR, of which The Wild Isles is a good example (it’s an anthology), but I could also add Angela Harding’s A Year Unfolding or A Nature Diary by Richard Adams.

This November, I’m reading Murder Will Out by T. J. Binyon. The book goes through several detectives, dividing its chapters through the different types of detectives: the professional amateur, the amateur amateur, the police, etc.. Binyon describes the differences between these characters when they belong to the same category and talks about the books and their creators so one can get an historical perspective or even see the evolution of the detective.

Now, back to you, do you read non-fiction by choice? And do you choose it?

#books #BooksAboutBooks #ClassicMystery #CrimeFiction #DetectiveFiction #livros #NatureWriting #NonFictionNovember #NonFictionNovember #readings

Several of the books mentioned over a wooden desk with a red notebook and a closed laptop full of stickers

A book over a writing desk, left between an old lamp a mug, a vase and a picture frame.

Non-fiction November: choosing non-fiction

You can find what fiction I like to read by looking into my non-fiction readings #NonFictionNovember

https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/non-fiction-november-choosing-non-fiction/

It's time for Nonfiction November! I’m a tad late this year, but for the first week's prompt I did a deep dive into a list of titles around the topic of "books as resistance" and looked at one amazing underground publisher who was cranking out banned books during WWII Nazi-occupied France.

https://headsubhead.com/2025/11/03/nonfiction-november-2025-week-1/

#NonfictionNovember #bannedbooks #bookstodon

Nonfiction November: My Year (So Far) in Reading Nonfiction #NonfictionNovember #readnonficchal #memoir #bookreviews

https://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/nonfiction-november-my-year-so-far-in-reading-nonfiction/

Review of "On the Edge" (4.5 stars): Great treatment on risk taking

https://bookwyrm.world/user/xylogx/review/21844

Nate Silver: On the Edge (2024, Penguin Publishing Group)

Stephanie gives us a course in #TheGreatCourses available from #Audible .

#nonficnov24 #Bookstodon #nonfiction #reading #BookBlogger #books

Nonfiction November 2024: Mind Openers #NonfictionNovember - Bookfever https://bookfever11.com/2024/11/18/nonfiction-november-2024-mind-openers/

Joy has some suggestions from her book group that focuses on "topics that help us understand the structures and systems that marginalize populations."

#nonficnov24 #Bookstodon #nonfiction #reading #BookBlogger #books

Mind Openers #NonfictionNovember
https://www.joyweesemoll.com/2024/11/18/mind-openers-nonfictionnovember/

Nonfiction November Week 4 Mind Openers: Cultish by Amanda Montell #reading #bookreviews #nonfictionnovember #reacnonficchal #beatthebacklist #the52bookclub

https://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/nonfiction-november-cultish-by-amanda-montell/

Started Marple this weekend for #NonFictionNovember
It's a delight!

@bookstodon #Reading #MissMarple

https://ciberlandia.pt/@paulasimoes/113209868351092318

Can anyone help Joy out with a recommendation of a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft?

#nonficnov24 #Bookstodon #nonfiction #reading #BookBlogger #books

Book Pairings #NonfictionNovember
https://www.joyweesemoll.com/2024/11/11/book-pairings-nonfictionnovember/

Stephanie's nonfiction/fiction book pairings focus on history and mythology.

#nonficnov24 #Bookstodon #nonfiction #reading #BookBlogger #books

Nonfiction November 2024: Book Pairings #NonfictionNovember - Bookfever https://bookfever11.com/2024/11/11/nonfiction-november-2024-book-pairings-nonfictionnovember/

The Nutcracker Chronicles, a modern twist on the beloved holiday ballet, intertwines the story of Clara and her nutcracker prince with the true-life stories that unfold backstage.

#book #memoir #nonfiction #nonfictionnovember #bookstodon @bookstodon