My Nonfiction List | 2020

My current list of top nonfiction picks from my TBR

Where I Find Nonfiction Recommendations:
-Friends and family (duh but needs saying); special shout-out to my Uncle Gerry
-Steve Donoghue - I recommend his starter kits especially! (channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/saintdonoghue) (blog: https://openlettersreview.com/posts/the-best-books-of-2019-nonfiction?rq=best%20nonfiction%202019)
-Pulitzer Prizes
-Cundill History Prize: https://www.cundillprize.com/
-Yearly Best round-ups from major publications (NYT, Post, WSJ, TLS, etc.)
-Podcasts (NYT Book Review podcast, Un idioma sin fronteras, etc.)
-BookTube of course! But tons of channels - smatterings here and there from all kinds of lovely creators :)

Books Mentioned:
-Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
-Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves by Frans de Waal
-Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers
-Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
-Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney
-Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves by Brenda Peterson
-The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon
-Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siecle Paris by Caroline Weber
-The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
-Hiroshima by John Hersey
-Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
-The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
-Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
-God: A Biography by Jack Miles
-Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain by Lucy Jones
-Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II by Svetlana Alexievich
-Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History by Sunil Amrith
-Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times by Alan Walker
-No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder
-Metazoa: The Evolution of Animals, Minds, Consciousness and Sleep by Peter Godfrey-Smith
-Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
-Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hämäläinen
-The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre
-Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
-Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages by Gaston Dorren
-Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
-The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
-Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
-The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors by Juliet Barker
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