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Hello #SheSaid.

How is the week treating you?
Did you have a Happy Halloween or a chill at home & relax?
What are you reading or catching up on this week?

Also
~ Last call for fiction reads for December
~ The vote will be up tomorrow

Up Next:
~ Dec. - fiction pick
~ Jan. - Nobody‘s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

* I know it‘s a new release & will have long waiting lists, so put in your library holds now or add it to your holiday wish list.

October #MonthlyNonfiction2025 reads @julieclair
Reviews to come, but I wanted to get my wrap-up posted before I forgot!

#SheSaid

I started putting the voting together but noticed that both myself & a few others were running behind on our reading lately AND that we had very few fiction nominations for December.

So for November: catch-up on any of your #SheSaid books that you want/need, or dive into something and tell us about it. I‘m hoping to catch up &
reread Wild by Cheryl Strayed.

And nominate a few fiction choices for December in the comments below.

Hello Nonfiction fans! What will everyone be reading for November?

For those who like to plan ahead, I will be continuing #MonthlyNonfiction2025 next year, but dropping the year from the name, so the new hashtag will be simply #MonthlyNonfiction. Same rules: read at least one nonfiction book each month. I‘ll do a StoryGraph challenge as well, for those who like to track that way.

September #MonthlyNonfiction2025 reads @julieclair
All three were great reads!

This is the list every year that really excites me—the nonfiction NBA longlist! As usual, this year‘s list is super topical and I‘m delighted to see it‘s very feminist as well. Again, I‘ve read 2, the El Akkad and the Li, both terrific. Run the Song seems the odd one out for me and I‘m most curious about Motherland, which isn‘t out yet.

Repost for @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

And just a reminder #SheSaid of what is coming up in October…and time to start nominating some new books to read again. What‘s on your radar, to read list, caught your eye lately. Please tag them below and I will get a voting 🗳️ group together!

Original post - https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2896864

#MonthlyNonfiction2025 August reads @julieclair

And just a reminder #SheSaid of what is coming up in October…and time to start nominating some new books to read again. What‘s on your radar, to read list, caught your eye lately. Please tag them below and I will get a voting 🗳️ group together!

July #MonthlyNonfiction2025 reads @julieclair
It was interesting that both of these books discussed the covid pandemic and its affects on the main subject. Serendipitous timing

Looking forward to seeing everyone‘s August selections for #MonthlyNonfiction2025 !

#MonthlyNonfiction2025 June reads @julieclair
Just finished one nonfiction this past month. I'm still working through Monster's Bones, it was a bit slow to start but it's picking up now. Hope to finish it this week.

I read a wide range of genres, but I‘d have to pick narrative nonfiction. I do so love a well-written nonfiction account that educates me about a person, event or topic while entertaining me at the same time.

#SundayFunday
@BookmarkTavern

#MonthlyNonfiction2025 reads @julieclair
Three great books finished in May

April #MonthlyNonfiction2025 Reads
Some great selections this month, I enjoyed them all
@julieclair

Finished four nonfiction books this month, with an unintentional focus on history
#MonthlyNonfiction2025 @julieclair

I have a fun variety of books to read for #MonthlyNonfiction2025 this month!

Ten Birds That Changed the World for #Naturalitsy @AllDebooks

Bad Feminist for #AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville

Blackbeard the Pirate for #BookedInTime @Cuilin

#MonthlyNonfiction2025 @julieclair
I finished three nonfiction books this month. They were all so different but each good in their own way.

Last year my goal was to read at least two nonfiction books each month. I almost managed it, with just two months being a book or two short. This year I'd like to try again and this #MonthlyNonfiction2025 challenge sounds perfect to keep me on track! I'm interested in paying more attention to which section each book falls into, even if I don't hit them all.
Thanks @julieclair for putting this together!

#Nonfiction2025 is here!

Around the world there seems to be unrest, division, and just generally unhappy populaces. So this year we will look at famous movements for change and of resistance, what drives people to push for change, why, and how.

🎶“Look what's happening out in the streets
Got a revolution, got to revolution”🎶

As always, this is a make it a way that works for you challenge, a little revolt is good for the soul after all ⤵️

I realized I still needed to post my #Nonfiction2024 bingo card. Some of these are only lightly connected to the prompt but I did it! I always enjoy mixing nonfiction into my reading year.

The updated list for the rest of this year!

Start planning your library holds and interlibrary loans!

Thank you everyone for your suggestions, nominations, and votes!

#SheSaid

Thanks for the tag @RaeLovesToRead

A Curious History of Sex by Kate Lister

The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris

Stiff by Mary Roach

Also see #YellowNFShelf 😁😁

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe

My end of the year #Nonfiction2023! Not a complete card, but boy some great books in there!

And I can see I‘m way WAY behind on reviews 😂. New Years Resolution, go back to reviewing right after I finish or I won‘t get back to it. 🤣

#Nonfiction2024 is here! And it‘s a big challenge this year.

First, these are not the books you need to read…although if you haven‘t read them, I encourage you to read them.

These are banned books, and they are banned for subject matter they contain that we find objectionable for some reason.

Your challenge is to read a nonfiction book about a similar subject:
Examples below⤵️

Hello #SheSaid! Here‘s our schedule for the rest of the year AND Nominations Are Open for the rest of next year!

Please add your nominations to the comments section!

The Sum of Us: What racism costs everyone….I‘m using for the prompt: Strange Fruit. It is definitely a sanitized version of what that phrase originally stood for, and someday I will read The Red Record, but I think The Sum of Us Does a great job encapsulating so many unexpected and strange outcomes from the seeds we have sowed.

#Nonfiction2023

Updating my challenges today:
* Music is History: Purple Rain - Purple Cover & Prince mention
* Resilience is Futile: Zombie - So much repressed to carry on living in the shadow of abuse
* Good as Hell: Cats on Catnip😸
* The Authority Gap: Imagine - Seriously, just imagine that equality world
* All That She Carried: Master of Puppets - so much control of other humans in this history
* Hell and other Destinations: I Will Survive - such a life
⤵️

Repost for @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

A great challenge to read more non-fiction in 2023. The theme is music with a wide-ranging selection of titles. You can pick up on any word or theme in the prompt.

Please see original post for more info.
https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2516439

#Nonfiction2023 is here!
The inspiration this year is music 🎶

Have fun with these categories any way you want & again, low-key…could be the title/singer/theme…its up to you!

All About that Bass…could be about music, have a trainer in it, someone named Meghan, or be about self body acceptance. Big Yellow Taxi…could have a taxi, a yellow cover, be about the environment, or a Joni.

It‘s all up to you & as always I can‘t wait to see your choices!

I did it! I finished my #Nonfiction2022 Bingo card. The last one I read for the card was Alone on the Wall, about mountain climber Alex Honnold. I enjoyed a lot of these, and it is hard to pick favorites. I think I‘d rank The Storyteller by Dave Grohl, Going There by Katie Couric, and Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott among my top reads.

It‘s appropriate that I finished this in #NonfictionNovember

I‘ve completed my #NonFiction2022Challenge @Riveted_Reader_Melissa
I loved your prompts and enjoyed many of my reads🤓
Can‘t wait for 2023 🥳

Updating my card #Nonfiction2022 with the most recently read.

And I‘m apparently feeling a bit rebellious, because although Dolly Parton turned down the Rock N‘ Roll Hall of Fame induction nomination, because she isn‘t Rock & Roll…that‘s where I‘m counting her. Sorry lady, you might not be able to see it yourself, but you are Rock & Roll 😉

Here‘s my first quarter roundup for #NF22 @Riveted_Reader_Melissa
My favs have been the memoir by Caitlyn Jenner, Who By Fire & Cultish

Sharing my progress @Riveted_Reader_Melissa #NF22
I‘m loving your prompts and finding them thought provoking/challenging 🙌🏻💕😅

Just checking in…How is everyone doing with their #Nonfiction2022 card this year? Anybody stuck or having any issues. So far I‘ve been delving into history a bit with:

With Ten Days in the Mad House by Nellie Bly for I Am a Basket Case
&
Ida B Queen for I Am a Rebel

I absolutely love seeing all your posts & the way you are each interpreting the prompts, the creativity is fabulous! My TBR list is growing with each post.

⤵️

Reposting #Nonfiction2022 for anyone that missed it before!

Can anyone guess the inspirations for this year‘s choices?
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If these make you think of the closing of The Breakfast Club or the song B!tch by Meredith Brooks you are right. People/books can be many different things to different people depending on your POV & preconceived ideas OR many things all wrapped up in one. So have a blast fillings these categories any way you want.

My #nonfiction2021 on to 2022!

Happy New Year! and Happy New Reading!

I added #Nonfiction2022 to StoryGraph if anyone is tracking their challenges over there in the new year. @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

After realizing the book I just finished would work for my last square, I‘ve finished my #Nonfiction2021 bingo card! Thanks to @Riveted_Reader_Melissa for hosting this challenge every year. It really pushed me to read a wide range of nonfiction, which is becoming one of my top genres. I‘m starting to think of books for next year‘s prompts.

Since my next audio is going to be fiction and I‘m currently reading 2 fiction books, I think I‘m ready to wrap it up for #NonFictionNovember 🤓I read 19 books and many ended up being my favorites of the year!!! Thanks to @Soubhiville who reminded me November was the month for NonFiction!! Only one of these books were in print, the rest were all audios 🎧♥️Will Smith was my favorite but the whole top row was outstanding!!

#Nonfiction2022 is here!
(especially for those planning ahead)

Can anyone guess the inspirations for this year‘s choices?
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If these make you think of the closing of The Breakfast Club or the song B!tch by Meredith Brooks you are right. People/books can be many different things to different people depending on your POV & preconceived ideas OR many things all wrapped up in one. So have a blast fillings these categories any way you want.

Thanks to @Soubhiville for reminding me that #NonFictionNovember starts TODAY!!
I‘ve readjusted my upcoming reading to reflect this month‘s theme🤓

I still need to start on the semi autobiographical novel #DrZ for our #DecemberChill #BuddyRead hosted by myself and the amazing @BarbaraBB - all our welcome to join us December 3-5🥰

I think my #bookspin list is ready for Nonfiction November! I‘ll probably skip on Bingo so I can relax into mood reading more. But as always I‘m excited to see what you pull out of the hat @TheAromaofBooks !📚📚📚

Finished my #nonfiction2021 bingo card. This is always the challenge I finish first every year. Sometimes I think back to the days when I used to say, “Oh, I don‘t read nonfiction!” Now it‘s about half of my yearly reading. Times change!

#thebibliophage2021

We are past the middle of the year already, so I decided it was time to update some of my challenges.

#Nonfiction2021

Hello summer nonfiction book group! Thanks again for pulling me back into Litsy for this. :) Please excuse my lazy image, I‘d rather get the list up for you to look at than wait until I grabbed a picture. Image is by hh1718 via Wikipedia Commons. I‘ll tag book options in the comments

Hey #NisforNonfiction friends - here are my suggestions. I went for shorter length and a few are lesser known. But I think they hit on topics we‘d be interested in right now. What do you think?

Ok my #NForNonfiction group, anything there catch your fancy. The most recently published is The Purpose of Power, so it probably has the least chance of being read already.... but otherwise these are all sitting on my shelf waiting to be read, and honestly if none of these suit, I‘m sure I could post more 😂. I‘ll post the links to them in the comments, so you can read more about each if you‘d like.

@BarbaraTheBibliophage @tjwill @daniwithtea

Random question for @BarbaraTheBibliophage @tjwill @daniwithtea

Any interest in resurrecting our nonfiction group, maybe this summer or fall? 🤔

This group always picked such a great group of books. I have tons to read, but you always introduced me to things I might not have found on my own.