I’ve seen loads of videos on BookTube called “Non-Fiction November”, and I wondered where it came from. I did a little digging and it turns out that National Non-Fiction Day was started by The Federation of Children’s Book Groups, in partnership with Scholastic Children’s Books, as an annual celebration of non-fiction in the UK.
Traditionally, it is hosted every year on the first Thursday in November. However, somewhere along the way it became a month-long event, with BookTubers and Book Bloggers gatecrashing the party, turning it into a full-on nonfiction fest!
Today’s post is a list of 14 Non-Fiction Recommendations. So, if you’re a sometimes-nonfiction-reader, or someone who doesn’t tend to gravitate towards nonfiction, why not branch out this November and give these books a try?
Biographies and Memoirs
1. Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
2. The Life and Loves of a He Devil by Graham Norton
3. The Time of My Life by Patrick Swazye and Lisa Niemi Swazye
Mental Health
4. Reasons To Stay Alive by Matt Haig
5. The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
Feminism
6. Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
7. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Personal Development
8. The Good Psychopath’s Guide to Success by Dr Kevin Dutton and Andy McNabb
9. Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradbury
History & Politics
10. The Illuminati – The Counter Culture Revolution by Robert Howells
11. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
12. Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
13. The Establishment by Owen Jones
14. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
What nonfiction recommendations do you have? Share your favourites in the comments!
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I haven’t read all that much non-fiction because I’m stuck reading it in a lot of textbooks haha. Now that uni is finished it might be good to get into some more, especially the personal development ones that help with self confidence and other things I struggle with
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Lol I was the same when I was at Uni, I was ALL about the fiction because I read enough non-fiction to last me a life time. Now though, I find a couple of non-fiction a year really grip me, and I highly recommend personal development books, or ones that will help you in your career. R xx
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Hi Rach! My first reaction to the title of the post was Eww non-fiction! Buuuut… I will actually try that next year and I’ve made a note in my diary so I don’t forget. I don’t read enough NF so will be good to have a change x
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Hi stranger! How are you??
Haha I was averse to NF for a while too, but I started with biographies and professional “self-help” books, and now I’ve discovered that it’s all about the subject and the author for me! Hope you get around to picking up a few of these, you’ll have to let me know how you get on with them! R xx
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