Good to see you after over 3 years. Didn't know you had this channel.Subscribed. I miss your beauty videos.

I read "How to keep house" because you mentioned it and it was one of the best non-fiction of last year. I loved the gentle approach and advice for making small steps rather than getting into the grinding mindset or whatever. Great for neurodivergent people with the author having ADHD

@kathybryar06

6 ай бұрын

I still need to read it, I bought it as an ebook. But I found her through her TikToks which I absolutely love

she's definitely inspired me to pick up more non fic, and i've been surprisingly loving it a lot!!

I'm currently reading Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes. It goes through 10 women from Greek myths - analyzing the stories from their perspectives rather than from the male heroes who usually get all the focus, while also looking at their influence on art/culture/literature. I'm really enjoying it. Planning to tackle Emily Wilson's translation of the Iliad this year, so thought this would be some good prep reading.

Ahhhh Emily one of my favourite things about your channel is the nonfiction you discuss! I read about 60% nonfiction last year and I adored Laziness Does Not Exist, The Will to Change (happy to say I got my brother to read it and he's finding it super impactful as a man, it really is a book that can spark change), and I second the enthusiasm about How To Keep House While Drowning. There is another book that I don't think you have on your shelves but I wanted to recommend because it gave me so much hope for the world while being so good at capturing what the problems of our current society are-it's Lola Olufemi's other book, Experiments in Thinking Otherwise. And the other book I wanted to mention is another on burnout, Can't Even by Anne Helen Petersen, which discusses burnout in the millennial generation from both individual and sociological perspectives ^^

Excellent selection. I'm constantly updating my non-fiction TBR with you.

I saw Gun, Germs and Steel on your shelves. I love that book! It is dense though and it dives deep into the subject. It took me a couple of months to read because it was so much information, but I learned a lot!

Highly recommend the audios of both Braiding Sweetgrass and Entangled Life (read by the authors). Empire of Pain is enraging but excellent. I need to get to his other book, Say Nothing!

Please read Braiding Sweetgrass!! It’s one of my favorite books of all time and I genuinely think everyone should read it. Also, if you listen to the audiobook of Empire of Pain, I highly recommend checking out an ebook copy or second edition physical book because the ending is completely different. The book was first released in the middle of a lawsuit against the Sacklers, and the author edited and rereleased the book after the case concluded.

@allisonc5348

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely love Braiding Sweetgrass!! Have you read Gathering Moss?

@pompokkko

2 ай бұрын

​@@allisonc5348 Currently reading Braiding Sweetgrass. Who's the author of the other book you mentioned?

New to book tube. Best wishes to you and your channel. I hope you get some great reads this year.

Lots of books here that are on my TBR too, I'm interested to see what you think about them!

Cool. Entangled Life is going to be my next physical once I finish the short story collection I'm currently reading.

I always look forward to this video as I always get great recommendations! At the moment I am obsessed with non fiction books on Ancient Rome which is a bit too specific to have a mass appeal 😅😅

Wow, there are some great recs in here! Thanks! :) I too feel like I need a physical copy for nonfiction. I can't even deal with an audiobook.

We have many similar nonfiction books on our TBR! Last year I read What My Bones Know and it was a favorite for the year.

Great list of books that you are interested in reading. I loved the Wild Women book years ago. I wish her other books were as good. Empire of Pain told a very informative background on the Sackler family who created the opiate epidemic. Very good. The Smithsonian Sackler Museum of Art-one of my favorite art galleries in Washington DC; incredible collection of Asian Art. And the whole time I was there, I kept wondering, "Did all of these works come from a mansion or a large house?" Because it is a HUGE collection and no where else have I seen the equivalent. The book explains how that collection was amassed!

You are going to LOVE Braiding Sweetgrass!!! Entangled Life and Empire of Pain were great too, but BS is the best!

They Were Her Property by Stephanie Jones-Rodgers is amazing. It's definitely emotional but it's so worth it. I also recommend The Field of Blood by Joanne Freeman for understanding the antebellum period and gender politics.

I share quite a lot of books with your nonfiction shelves :) a lot of them are worth reading. One I would say is not, is Guns, Germs and Steel, as a lot of the author’s conclusions have been challenged since it was published.

I just finished the audio for Know My Name, it's the first book in 2024 that I know will be on my top 10 of the year. Just great! I also really liked Burnout, it was on my top 10 for 2022. I read about 200 books per year

I had Empire of Pain on my TBR for ages as well but I finally picked it up as an audiobook this month and it was so good. So horrifying but so good. Definitely worth the 18 hours in my opinion.

Braiding Sweetgrass is absolutely wonderful! Robin Wall Kimmerer is a Biology Professor and an Indigenous woman and she blends Indigenous knowledge with science. It might be a good one to prioritizes as it falls a bit more within your comfort zone of science based non-fiction. I just finished Queens of the Wild by Ronald Hutton. A quote from Amazon reads "A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present day." I found it easy to read and well organized. I thought it might pair well with the Wild Women book that you mentioned. Happy Reading!

Braiding Sweetgrass is one of my favorite books of 2023. It's pretty slow-paced but the writing style is beautiful

i just read garden spells and really enjoyed it thankyou for the reccomendation

I cannot recommend braiding sweetgrass enough, like it is one of my all time favourite books and I 100% think you will love it !!

I really liked Entangled Life - some of it was familiar from my own education but I learned lots of interesting tidbits. The Fantastic Fungi doc was a nice complement after finishing the book. Empire of Pain is on my TBR too - no idea when I’ll get around to it 😅 Braiding Sweetgrass is excellent - I want to reread it (and yes the audiobook is excellent, especially when out on nature walks). The Hot Zone is one of my favourite books though it is quite old at this point, so some of it can read dated. The Song of the Cell is excellent - I read it in 2023 and if you enjoyed Emperor, I think you’ll like Song.

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loved braiding sweet grass. her voice is like a lullaby. she has one about moss that made me cry beautiful

I just finished "Moss Witch and Other Stories" by Sara Maitland and LOVED it. I think you would too. It's a collection of short stories, but they're inspired by conversations she had with different scientists. They wrote an afterword as well, so it's a nice combination of fiction and non-fiction in one book. The book includes topics like feminism, myths/folklore/fairytales and nature. She's an academic herself and in my opinion a genius!! She made me feel a little dumb at times, but it was so worth it 😂

I have already read 2 Nonfictions so far. Which is more than I thought I would get to in January .

My brother recommends I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong. The Song of the Cell is on my TBR list too.

I've picked up Bullshit Jobs because you mentioned it recently and I love this book! :D I think it's extremely on point, but I feel like maybe those who are employed can appreciate it more because we see real-life examples of this throughout our careers (iin contrary to self-employed I mean). I also think it's a must-read for managers, because it goes into the psychology of working (or when there is a lull in workload)

Bullshit Jobs is excellent! I recommend it to everyone I can, you will love it. Written by a fabulous man, RIP.

Some of my faves are Automating Inequality, and The Monuments Men

Thumbs up for Empire of Pain, Braiding Sweetgrass and Song of the Cell. All outstanding.

I just finished Bullshit jobs and really liked it! I do think it was a bit long for the topic but I enjoyed hearing all the anecdotes from people with bullshit jobs. It just highlights how badly we need a mass overhaul of our current system.

@juditkovacs1205

6 ай бұрын

I read it years ago, and working in the corporate world I think about it regularly. But on a daily, or every other day basis. lol

They Were Her Property was really good!!

I recently finished Heal Endo by Katie Edmonds. An excellent read for anyone diagnosed with endometriosis. I am looking forward to starting Wintering by Katherine May next.

I listened to the audiobook of Braiding Sweetgrass last year, and it was probably my favorite experience of the year. I bought the young adult version for my niece and nephews. Have you considered Eve by Cat Bohannon? I started it as an ebook but after a few chapters replaced it with a physical copy. I haven't restarted it yet but I'm excited to get back to it.

I loved Empire of Pain and Know My Name. ❤ both excellent.

Great list! I do want to let you know that Braiding Sweetgrass is VERY focused on motherhood and how the author finds value in life through that spectrum. I was excited to read it because we share a tribe but as a child free person it really didn’t hit and I DNFed. Otherwise I have some more books I think anyone looking for non fiction might enjoy: *Perfume dreams: reflections on the Vietnamese diaspora by Andrew Lam *Bitch: on the female of the species by Lucy Cooke *the Sakura obsession by Naoko Abe *Origin: a genetic history of the americas by Jennifer Raff *the hidden life of trees by Peter wholleben *an emmense world by Ed Yong

@chelsey8737

6 ай бұрын

Oh huh thanks for sharing about Braiding Sweetgrass. I wasn't aware of that but that doesn't interest me so maybe I won't actually pick it up after all

@dotKaydot

6 ай бұрын

To each their own, I am also child-free and I wasn’t turned off by that aspect of the book at all. And then I recommended and/or gifted it to all the mother figures in my life! Braiding Sweetgrass does a beautiful job of “braiding” together botany, indigenous teachings, and memoir-like passages about motherhood. I listened to the audiobook and it was really good, but now I need a physical copy so I can mark all my favourite passages!

@anne-marie339

6 ай бұрын

Interesting! I’m child-free but really enjoyed her ruminations on motherhood and it didn’t overpower the other themes she was exploring in the book. But every reader is different of course!

@Inoorne

6 ай бұрын

I’m glad it wasn’t a turn off for others. I found parts very interesting but for me the motherhood bits just ended up being a larger part of the book than I expected. Truly though, what bothered me might not bother others at all. I just wanted to mention it since I don’t see that aspect of the book brought up in most discussions about it. I was looking for more science meets indigenous teachings.

@zixaz00

6 ай бұрын

Please don’t let that comment deter you from picking it up. The book is primarily about the environment, indigenous teachings, and the author’s life. Yes, the author is a mother and shares her experience with motherhood but that’s not the primary focus of the book at all.

Are Prisons Obsolete? is an AMAZING book. Keeps it concise and the stories are very moving. HIGHLY recommend.

I bought Medical Apartheid a few years back and it’s on my TBR for this year.

are those cacti? So cute!

I did a research project on the opioid crisis last semester. It is so fascinating all the twisted things they got away with

I'm currently reading the one about cancer by the author you mentioned. I'm still very in the begining but so far, so good

Burnout by Nagoski is very good, and so is Entangled Life. A new release I blew through was Our Moon by Rebecca Boyle. As the title states, it’s all about Earth and its moon. 😊

Women who run with the wolves is one of my favorite books ever!

Entangled life gorgeous cover I am reading it this year too 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉📖📖📖📚📙📚📚🩵🩵📖📚📚📖🩵🩵🩵📚📚📚📚📖🩵🩵🩵📖📚📙📚📖🩵🩵🩵🩵📖📖📚📚📚🩵🩵🩵📖📖📙📖📚🩵📖

Man's Search for Meaning is one of my top five favorite books ever -- it is stunning. The Mother Tongue is hilarious and fascinating. The Hot Zone and Henrietta Lacks are both really great. I'm also dying to read Why We Should All Be Feminists, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, all about love, Night, and The Opposite of Loneliness.

My favourite non-fic reads from this year and last have been What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories by Laura Shapiro, Kitty Cornered: How Frannie and Five Other Incorrigible Cats Seized Control of Our House and Made It Their Home by Bob Tarte, Enslaved by Ducks: How One Man Went from Head of the Household to Bottom of the Pecking Order by Bob Tarte, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May, War of the Whales: A True Story by Joshua Horwitz, and World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. I would recommend any of these books if anyone is interested.

Barbara Kingsolver (the woman who wrote Demon Copperhead, which I've seen you're interested in reading) wrote a really good nonfiction called Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and I highly recommend it. It's an easy book to get through and it's really interesting, in my opinion. It's basically about how she and her family spent a year only eating things they grew themselves or could source locally.

I have several of these on my TBR and added The Seven Sins. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the Palestine book.

I recommend Dr Gabor Mate's books! Especially 'When the Body says No' and 'The myth of normal' Based on what you've mentioned about health, illnesses, stress, burnout, etc I think you would like them!

I just found the emperor of all maladies in my used book store. I had to grab it after your recommendation.

Braiding Sweetgrass was excellent.

You should check out The Hot Zone by Richard Preston, its a non-fiction book about the Ebola outbreak, although its non-fiction, it reads like a sci-fi fiction novel, currently reading it and it's great.

@emilyreads5207

6 ай бұрын

Agreed, it's a good one

Hi Emily! Just wondering if you’ve checked whether your local library gives you access to the app Hoopla? It’s like Libby but no waiting times on books! They have audiobooks, ebooks, even movies, tv, music. Just thought of this because I borrowed that Angela Davis audiobook. I’m in Nova Scotia and my library gets me access :)

White Benevolence by Amanda Gebhard, Sheila Mclean & Verna St Denis and The Science of the Sacred by Dr Nicole Redvers are both fantastic non-fiction!

I don’t read a lot of non-fic but during the work with my thesis I read Know my name by Chanel Miller and it is great! A more academic one that I really enjoyed was A managed heart by Arlie Russell Hochschild it’s about the emotional labor involved in jobs where workers must suppress their true feelings and display false ones, often resulting in burnout and alienation. It’s from the 1980’s so it should be available at libraries.

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande is really really good - and I'm hoping to get to more of his books this year!

can you do a video about nonfiction for beginners? i want to read more and i do enjoy it but i find it intimidating and would love to know some engaging reads to start with

Ohh The Hot Zone is great! I read it October 2019 right before you started hearing about the pandemic 😷. Tbh it read like fiction book

Have you heard of 'In defence of witches, the legacy of the witch hunts and why women are still on trial'? It seems like a read up your alley

Some recommendations: On feminism: i highly recommend the first part of Simone de Beauvoir's memoir: mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée. She writes about her coming of age in Paris, in the beginning of the 20th century. I annotated so much while reading. So many interesting topics: religion, friendship, what girls vs boys were allowed and encouraged to do, education... Book about politics: How democracies die by ziblatt/ levitsky. Very important, especially with the elections in the US coming up later this year and the general increase of populism around the world.

Why does he do that is incredible!

I'm reading American Cheese by Joe Berkowitz and it is really fun and interesting so far. Not quite as serious as some of your recommendations!

Emily I think you would like “The Patriarchs, origins of inequality” by Angela Saini. I finished it recently and it was fantastic.

Mary Roach is awesome! Spook is great on audio

Definitely want to finish Bullshit Jobs this year. Kind of got stuck last year and haven‘t continued yet. Know My Name by Chanel Miller was really powerful and she writes so well. I‘m waiting on How to Keep House at my library as well but should be getting to it in a few weeks. 🤞 Empire of Pain is on my physical tbr but probably won‘t get to it this year. Might be too heavy, same for I Want to Die But I want to Eat Tteokbokki.

The hundred years war on palestine will be the next book I pick up as well. I'm so happy to know you have the same views on this as me

Look Emily I know we're here for the books but spill the info on where you got that sweater girl😂❤

I'm looking forwatd to "How to Invent Everything: a Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler" by Ryan North, it sounds fun and interesting!

I love "women who run with the wolves" Im more like what are the meanings some fairy tales. I still have it on my shelf

Some of the nonfiction I own and hope to read this year are: Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination Sandra M Gilbert No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin The Song of the Cell The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk Two of my favorite nonfiction from the last few years are: The 1619 Project You Sound Like a White Girl by Julissa Arce

Emily please read Entangled Life, i have the portuguese edition. This need to be good 😅

Not on your shelf but I still want to recommend It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (but Were Never Told) by Karen Tang. It’s about helping women advocate for their health especially if you face doctors who don’t seem to care The one you mentioned I’m most interested in is the how to keep a house while drowning 😂 could definitely use some of that

Burnout was a book I read for book club and it got very mixed reviews. It wasn't helpful to me because I had previously listened to their TedTalk on the subject and felt the book didn't add much to the conversation. If you decide to read it, I hope you enjoy it more.

If you don’t get to Empire of Pain, Dopesick is a great TV show on that topic!!

I have a project reading American history from the colonial period to the present. That will give me plenty of nonfiction to read. My list is 22 pages long I think.

One nonfiction book I highly recommend in Going Clear by Lawrence Wright. It’s about the history and secrets of Scientology and it is WILD. I flew through it. So interesting but also absolutely terrifying.

Definitely read "the Hot Zone"

I highly recommend Stolen Focus by Johann Hari! It’s about how social media, our jobs, lack of sleep, artificial light etc are ruining our focus on a huge societal level. It’s super interesting !!

I read The Hot Zone last year and I'd suggest that you go read Crisis in the Red Zone by the same author instead. It's his more update book on ebola. although The Hot Zone did went thru a couple more things he didn't exactly went thru much in Crisis in the Red Zone, I also just feel that the latter is written a lot better.

I read Empire of Pain. Interesting read. I have less and less confidence in the pharmaceutical industry, really the entire medical system. I just try to not get sick.

I did the audiobook of empire of pain and it is insanely good and I was upset when it ended. Reads like a family drama.

Oh my gosh, they ALL sound fascinating! Sorry I'm not helpful at all! LOL

Talking of non-fiction books, I'm reading Discipline Is Destiny - Ryan Holiday nowadays.

Im from Nova Scotia. We def were taught about slavery. My home town was the end of the "underground railroad"

I am also currently reading Bullshit Jobs! So far, I think the concept sounded better than the execution, but still interesting

Some I've had my eyes on, and (optimistically) hope to get to this year, are: Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases by Lydia Kang & Nate Pedersen Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think and Do by Jennifer L. Ederhardt White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad The New Age of Empire: How Racism & Colonialism Still Rule the World by Kehinde Andrews

Hey, is there a Discord channel of yours where book discussions take place? I'd be interested in joining if there is one.

You also have the other book by the Bullshit Jobs author (David Graeber). The one co-written with David Vengrow (yes, two Davids) called the Dawn of Everything. That is really good as well. Graber is one of the few authors that I have yet to be disappointed by. All of his books had some ideas that have forever changed how I see things. Bullshit Jobs is great in making you think why corporate jobs, and corporate culture are like they are. Debt is great in understanding how our current money system came to be. And The Dawn of Everything is great in showing possible interpretations of history, and how history is told, and how that influences our ideas of humanity's past and development.

The one by the astronaut Chris Hadfield, his son has a really great KZread channel called Rare Earth.

I read "are prisons obselete" and I am very bias as I'm a woman married to a female correctional officer. I didn't agree with so much of this book for one main reason. .... What does she suggest as an alternative? Keep your eyes open to see if she gives us an alternative. Otherwise, are we complaining for complaining sake? Am I just bias? I read a lot about prisons and how our mental health problems, especially here in Canada, end up in jails. My wife sees this everyday. I'm nuanced in the topic but still found this book to be in the clouds. Dying to know your thoughts!

Think the hot zone was a great and devastating read

Read The Dawn of Everything. His best.

I DNF'D empire of pain, I however recommend Dopesick by Beth Macy

Doing harm sounds interesting!!

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