Great new non-fiction ?

[JanisMoplin]

After years of reading only fiction, I seem to be enjoying great non-fic more these days. Recently, I have enjoyed The House of Gucci, Lucy Kellaway's Re-educated, Bad Blood ( about Theranos), Prairie Fires ( about Laura Ingalls Wilder) and everything that David Grann has ever written.

Any more reccos? I like history, true crime if not too violent, books about women.

Not new, but I've enjoyed these from the last few years: The Five by Hallie Rubenhold, Educated by Tara Westover, Stasiland by Anna Funder, A History of Britain in 21 Women by Jenni Murray.

A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriofa.

Sort of a poetry/biography/literary non-fiction mash up. It's extraordinary.

Thank you! The Five was recommended to me by someone who knows me well, but have been avoiding it simply because well.... the world is so horrible right now anyway.

Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard. About how trees communicate with each other using networks of fungus.
Also about how she was challenged/shouted down/ridiculed in the earlier days of her work, and it interweaves her own family story too.
Some of the science did go over my head, but I really enjoyed it.

Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard. About how trees communicate with each other using networks of fungus.
Also about how she was challenged/shouted down/ridiculed in the earlier days of her work, and it interweaves her own family story too.
Some of the science did go over my head, but I really enjoyed it.

Memories. From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi is wonderful, it's a refugee memoire of the Russian Civil War which is funny and horrific all at the same time. Teffi is still very popular in her native Russia and deserves to be better known elsewhere.

Not sure these are really your speed, but non-fiction I have really enjoyed (is that is even the right words for some of these) recently are:

Men Who Hate Women - From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All - Laura Bates
Just amazingly written and fascinating.

All the Young Men - Ruth Coker Burks
the true story of Ruth Coker Burks, a young single mother in Hot Springs, Arkansas, who finds herself driven to the forefront of the AIDS crisis, and becoming a pivotal activist in America's fight against AIDS.

The Ride of a Lifetime - Robert Iger
He used to be CEO of Disney, really interesting book about his time at the helm of the business. (also recommend To Pixar and Beyond by Lawrence Levy, ex-CFO of Pixar which is a similar feel, though not quite as good)

I also like Jon Ronson books in general - So You're Been Publicly Shamed is my favourite.