I was thrilled to host this week’s Nonfiction November topic: fiction/nonfiction book pairings:
It can be a “If you loved this book, read this!” or just two titles that you think would go well together. Maybe it’s a historical novel and you’d like to get the real history by reading a nonfiction version of the story.
Pairings like this are one of the best ways for me to find new books to add to my TBR and I hope you all found some great new-to-you books this week!
Your Fiction/Nonfiction Book Pairings
- Heather @ Based on a True Story
Pairings: religious cults, undocumented immigrants, and whales - Julz Reads
Pairing: 1972 Munich Olympics terrorist attack (I added Vengeance, the nonfiction half of the pairing to my TBR) - Emerald City Book Review
Pairing: slavery - ExUrbanis
Pairing: WWII code-breaking (the book that inspired The Imitation Game) - Bookshelf Monstrosity
Pairings: Civil War (including Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy, which I loved), WWII, yellow fever plague, Elizabeth I - Unruly Reader
Pairing: NYPD - Writerly Reader
Pairing: magicians, World’s Fair serial killer H.H. Holmes (featured in The Devil in the White City and inspiration for Robert Bloch’s American Gothic) - One Catholic Life
Pairing: metafiction / books as artifacts (confession: I had to Google this) - France Book Tours
Pairing: France - Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
Pairing: mental illness (specifically asylums and OCD) - Paperback Princess
Pairings: rape, Nordic culture - Reading the End
North Korea, the Congo - Real Life Reading
Women in the space race, Chinese immigration to America and the 2008 financial crisis, North Korea, The Princess Bride - Raider Girl
Russia - B.B. Toady
Life through slavery, Christmas during the Civil War - Hibernator’s Library
Mental illness, diseases - Reading Beyond
Henry Ford, East of Eden, The Count of Monte Cristo, 20th Century history - Books on the Table
Inner workings of a restaurant, Paris, 2008 financial crisis, hospice and end-of-life decisions, Rust Belt poverty - Lakeside Musing
Beryl Markham - The Written World
Princesses - Novels and Nonfiction
Queen Victoria - Sarah’s Book Shelves
Pairings: Texas money/society, Manson family & murders, late in life friendship, recovering from PTSD/trauma, women’s gymnastics, aftermath of disasters
Next week, Julz Reads will be hosting Be The Expert/Ask the Expert/Become the Expert:
Three ways to join in this week! You can either share 3 or more books on a single topic that you have read and can recommend (be the expert), you can put the call out for good nonfiction on a specific topic that you have been dying to read (ask the expert), or you can create your own list of books on a topic that you’d like to read (become the expert).
Join us and hashtag your social media posts with #nonficnov!
It’s awesome to see all these in one place. This is my fave topic in Non-Fiction Nov.
Mine too!
Thank you for putting them all together. I agree with Tanya, it is a great topic.
I’m another fan of this topic! Thanks for gathering all the subjects in one place – makes for easy browsing. I love all the creative combinations that everyone comes up with.
Ooh, this is going to be dangerous to my amazon wishlist…
I loved this topic too! It was fun seeing so many novels I’ve read paired with nonfiction that could tell me even more. Next year I’m going to be ready to participate in Nonfiction November!
Checking out these posts is going to be dangerous…
This was a great week. I loved seeing all these pairings and I LOVE that they’re all in one place now. Thank you for hosting!
Wow what a great idea! LOVE reading nonfiction these days, so cool to see the pairings. Awesome!
Thanks 🙂
How fun! I’ve never done this. I have to ask…is any non-fiction truly non-fiction? No author bias?
Haha – I’m sure there is some author bias in every nonfiction book. The author has to choose to come at the facts from a certain angle, right?