Insert Literary Pun Here's video: My Nonfiction List 2020

My current list of top nonfiction picks from my TBR Where I Find Nonfiction Recommendations: -Friends and family (duh but needs saying); special shout-out to my Uncle Gerry -Steve Donoghue - I recommend his starter kits especially! (channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/saintdonoghue) (blog: https://openlettersreview.com/posts/the-best-books-of-2019-nonfiction?rq=best%20nonfiction%202019) -Pulitzer Prizes -Cundill History Prize: https://www.cundillprize.com/ -Yearly Best round-ups from major publications (NYT, Post, WSJ, TLS, etc.) -Podcasts (NYT Book Review podcast, Un idioma sin fronteras, etc.) -BookTube of course! But tons of channels - smatterings here and there from all kinds of lovely creators :) Books Mentioned: -Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham -Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves by Frans de Waal -Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers -Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova -Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney -Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves by Brenda Peterson -The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon -Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siecle Paris by Caroline Weber -The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark -Hiroshima by John Hersey -Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder -The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells -Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight -God: A Biography by Jack Miles -Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain by Lucy Jones -Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II by Svetlana Alexievich -Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History by Sunil Amrith -Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times by Alan Walker -No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder -Metazoa: The Evolution of Animals, Minds, Consciousness and Sleep by Peter Godfrey-Smith -Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein -Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hämäläinen -The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre -Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser -Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages by Gaston Dorren -Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown -The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer -Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin -The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors by Juliet Barker Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/InsertLitPun Find me on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/32647049-jennifer This is not a sponsored video, and unless otherwise stated, I bought these books myself.