This week, Nonfiction November is hosted by Frances at Volatile Rune and it’s all about how we choose nonfiction.
It’s relatively straightforward for me – I have a few key categories that I’m always drawn to:
- Memoir (favourites this year: I Had a Father in Karratha by Annette Trevitt and Unquiet by Linn Ullmann)
- Swimming/ water related (no standouts in this category this year – the benchmark is something like Turning by Jessica Lee)
- Grief and other therapy books (favourite this year – an overlap into memoir – Love, Death & Other Scenes by Nova Weetman)
I always prefer a narrative writing style and when it comes to covers, well yes, of course I judge! The cover above (Beginners by Tom Vanderbilt, finished yesterday and review to come) is exactly my thing – yellow and water-related. Likewise, the topic was also exactly my thing – part memoir, part popular-science, part self-help. I got a lot out of it.