I like nonfiction and I think I read a lot of it. I read about 15% nonfiction.  I read to entertain my brain so I like my nonfiction to read like a good story.
I like all different kinds of nonfiction. I like memoirs and books where the writer tells the story by writing about how he learned about the topic.
Bill Bryson is a favorite for this type of story and In a Sunburned Country is my favorite of his books.
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
This is a travel guide to Australia where you basically learn that everything is going to kill you. I love this one on audio to hear him tell his travel misadventure stories.
Pukka’s Promise: The Quest for Longer-Lived Dogs by Ted Kerasote
I recently read this one and am still working on incorporating a few of the ideas presented into my working life.
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman’s Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine by Sue Monk Kidd
This is an older book now but still one of my absolute favorites on female spirituality. What happens when a writer known for her conservative Christian writings who also is a pastor’s wife finds herself moving away from her faith?
Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan
I loved this on audio and passed it along to my husband and he was engrossed too.
I like learning about history.
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford
I’ve always been fascinated with Mongolia and women’s history so finding a book that combined them was great.
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
This is the biography of cancer. It gives the history of the ability to diagnose and treat different cancers. It reads like a detective story. There is a lot of science here which I liked but you can skip the details of cell biology if you aren’t inclined that way and still get the overall story.
Straight biographies are great too.
Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith
Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg
I’m limiting the list because as I started to look back at the nonfiction I’ve read I got excited about loads of books all over again.
Do you read nonfiction? What are your favorite types?
I read The World’s Strongest Librarian just last week. It was good.
I really enjoy reading non-fiction books. Thank you for the amazing post.
About 0.001% of by books are non-fiction 🙂 I and currently obsessed with urban fantasy. I am really loving anything that involved a series with a reoccurring main character. Thanks for the giveaway!
I have been enjoying more nonfiction this year. Thanks for the suggestions, I’ve heard good things about Bryson and little princes sounds like a book I would like.
another non fiction reader here – thanks for sharing your list and enthusiasm 🙂
All of Bill Bryson’s books are so good!
All the books you listed sound really interesting. I’m going to have to check them out – and possibly add them to my tbr list.
I actually have Kate Remembered on my bookshelf, but sadly have not had time to read it yet…one of these days!!!
I like nonfiction that reads like fiction as well. I recently read Frozen in Time and it knocked my socks off. Another great recent nonfiction book is The World’s Strongest Librarian. SO good!
What a terrific list of titles. I have Little Princes somewhere in my stacks – I really should read that one!!!
LOVE Bill Bryson! I really need to read more of his stuff. And I’d really like to read that Queen Elizabeth II bio – I watched some documentaries about her last year as part of her Jubilee celebration, and had no idea what an interesting life she’s led! I’d like to know more.