Nonfiction November TBR

 I have participated in NonFiction November for several years now and I always end up with a list of books that sound really interesting and which I don't get read. I have assembled the whole TBR list (as of November 28, 2023) here in the hope that I can get more of these read before next November rolls around. 

To Be Read:

1. Murder Your Darlings by Roy Peter Clark (from LisaNotes)
2. The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson (from Gulfside Musing)
3. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (WhatMeRead)
   
4. One More Croissant for the Road by Felicity Cloake (LouLouReads) 
5. The Gates of Empire: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy (This Reading Life)
6. House Lessons: Renovating a Life by Erica Bauermeister (Beverley A Baird)
   
7. The Nutmeg Trail by Eleanor Ford (Superfluous Reading)
   
8. Is the Algorithm Plotting Against Us: A Layperson's Guide to the Concepts, Math, and Pitfalls of AI by Kenneth Wenger (Words and Peace)
9. My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead (My Head is Full of Books)
10. I Didn't Sign Up for This by Tracy Dalgelish (Lisa Notes)
11. The Baroness by Hannah Rothschild (AnnaBookBel)
12. The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne (from Entering the Enchanted Castle)
13. Ready or Knot? 12 Conversations Every Couple Needs to Have Before Marriage by Scott Kedersha (Reviews from the Stacks)
14. A Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick and A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin by Mark Galeotti (both from Brona's Books)
15. Wild Women and the Blues (the novel paired with a NF title at Based on a True Story)
    
16. How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing by KC Davis (paired by Melissa Firman with The Lazy Genius Way which I liked) 
    
17. Abandoned Train Stations by David Ross (Superfluous Reading)
18. The Age of Creativity by Emily Urguhart (Beverley A Baird)
    
19. Vote First or Die by Scott Conroy (from Plucked from the Stacks)
20. Enid by Robert Wainwright (from book'd out -- though it was on their TBR as well rather than a recommendation)
21. The Brontes: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of Three Sisters by Juliet Barker (from Doing Dewey)
22. The Barbizon by Paulina Bren and The Girl in White Gloves by Kerri Maher (a pairing from The Paperback Princess
    
23. The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made by Patricia O'Toole (recommended in a comment from Lory at Entering the Enchanted Castle) 
24. The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock by Lucy Worsley (from Joy's Book Blog)
25. A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders (She Seeks Nonfiction)
26. Index, a History of the by Dennis Duncan (from Books Please)

Read:

1. Off the Clock by Laura Vanderkam (from The Book Stop)
2. Writing at the Kitchen Table: Elizabeth David, the Authorized Biography by Artemis Cooper (from Scones and Chaise Longues)
3. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman (Deb At Readerbuzz)
4. A Libertarian Walks into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling (from What's Nonfiction and Plucked from the Stacks) 
5. Finding Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (from The Thousand Book Project)
6. The Power of Ritual by Casper Ter Kuile (from Silver Button Books)
   
7. Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage by Helen Ellis (Hopewell's Public Library of Life)
8. 16 Words: William Carlos Williams & “The Red Wheelbarrow” by Lisa Rogers and Chuck Groenink (a NF picture book paired with the poetry of WCW by Plucked from the Stacks)
9. The Library at Night by Albert Manguel (Volatile Rune)
10. Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant (from What's Nonfiction) -- essays from various people about eating/cooking for one
11. I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening) by Sarah Stewart Holland an Beth Silvers (ReaderBuzz)
12. Things to Look Forward To: 52 Large and Small Joys for Today and Everyday by Sophie Blackhall (Shoe's Seeds and Stories)
13. The Cartographers: A Novel by Peng Shepherd (Beverley A Baird) was paired with the NF work The Map Thief which I got from the library but couldn't get into -- may give it another try later.
14. The Divorce Colony by April White (Based on a True Story)
15. Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli by Ted Merwin (Plucked from the Stacks) 

DNF:

• Fridge Love: Organize Your Refrigerator for a Healthier, Happier Life by Kristen Hong (from Based on a True Story)