My favorite ten nonfiction books that I read in 2018!
–Nonfiction Favorites of Prior Years:
My Top 5 Nonfiction Books of 2017: https://youtu.be/6Xn7_UiMzCs
My Top 5 Nonfiction Reads of 2016: https://youtu.be/lZ1qQrd4xk0
Top 10 books of 2015: https://youtu.be/TFve7yJhwL0
–Books Discussed– *(Not in the order they appear in the video)*
The Big Short by Michael Lewis: https://bit.ly/2K3K3Uk
–Other places I discuss this book: https://youtu.be/UA_9dxFO1yk?t=257
Owl by William Service: https://amzn.to/2CHc5Fe
–Other places I discuss this book: https://youtu.be/beOjRQoYXkE?t=401
The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater by Alanna Okun: https://bit.ly/2HjdOQM
–My full review of this book: https://youtu.be/VZgPbPmU6E8
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain: https://bit.ly/2sr2lZ7
–Other places I discuss this book: https://youtu.be/NViMzhlrqFo?t=472
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren: https://bit.ly/2kO8kUB
–Other places I discuss this book: https://youtu.be/JSF41V25yYk?t=9m
Smarter, Faster, Better by Charles Duhigg: https://bit.ly/2KOIJpG
–Other places I discuss this book: https://youtu.be/6ASGSTdaHxA?t=8m28s
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty: https://bit.ly/2NriHuw
–Other places I discuss this book: https://youtu.be/6ASGSTdaHxA?t=9m51s
The Triumph of Seeds by Thor Hanson: https://bit.ly/2E9c4LW
–Other places I discuss this book: https://youtu.be/beOjRQoYXkE?t=278
Feathers by Thor Hanson: https://bit.ly/2KgXSUC
–Other places I discuss this book: https://youtu.be/warDTdhX8fE?t=381
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee: https://bit.ly/2LLmCjK
–Other places I discuss this book: https://youtu.be/UA_9dxFO1yk?t=364
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What a great selection! My to-buy list always grows too much when you talk about non-fiction you love because you have such a great taste and talk so passionately about it that it makes me want to read every single book right away.
I was so excited to see this upload! Making a coffee as the little one naps to enjoy it with you! Thank you for all that you do and continue to do Olive! I discovered some amazing books this year thanks to you! Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2019! Xo
I love seeing which nonfiction books stuck with you and am glad that Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (loved it) is high on your list, as well as Eggshell Skull (tbr!). Here’s to a 2019 filled with joy and good reading!
I so appreciate how much you expose me to nonfiction! so much diversity and insight. I can’t wait for 2019!
did you watched the movie adaptation of the big short?
“Cleopatra:A Life” was my favorite nonfiction book that I read in 2018!
So many books I want to read on this list. ❤️ Lab Girl
This is so helpful for me since I really want to try and read nonfiction next year! You are so eloquent in the way you speak too. Thank you for sharing your love of Nonfiction with us 🙂
Thanks for a great video. Lab girl is now in my TBR!
I read Owl several years ago and really enjoyed it – glad to see it make your list.
Thannks! So many good recs! Its so reassuring to have you associated non-fiction reads as something other than drab. The non-fiction i read were some memoirs and im finding that i really kinda despise them. I thought id find something profound, but usually they just come off as self-indulgent. Sounds like its so muvh wiser to have the “memoir” not be a memoir at all but about something specific in your life (like the owl) so that we dont have to focus on every angst. I dunno. I think i prefer biographies.
Wow! I love the variety of nonfiction you read; I’m especially stoked about this video because I own so many of the books you’ve mentioned.
Thanks for sharing 😀
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I loved Seeds. Wonderful list – thank you.
Thank you
I really want to read Lab Girl, it sounds fascinating, and if it was your favorite, it must be good 🙂 I didn’t read a ton of NF this year but I did read a few really good ones. Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly and Word By Word by Kory Stamper were both terrific reads (though obviously verrrry different, hah)
I was so excited to see this video. I knew you’d give me ideas. We have similar interests in nonfiction!
Thank you so much for these wonderful recommendations. You are my favourite booktuber. I enjoy listening to your book discussions. I think you provide intelligent and interesting discussion on the pros and cons of the books you’ve read. Thanks for the tip on the crafting book – I’ll definitely be purchasing that one!
Nonfiction is always a good option!
I really loved Lab Girl the first time I read it also, but after a second reading knowing the type of hazing behavior that Jahren not only participated it but lauds as a way to find kindred spirits, I found a lot of her earlier behavior very worrying. As a fellow scientist, I loved the nature writing part of the book but a lot of the behaviors, like long road trips in unsafe cars, working all hours of the night alone, not paying your best friend enough that he could live in a real apartment, while definitely Jahren’s truth and similar to things I have experienced, do not represent what I hope we are striving toward. As this is never addressed in the book, I worry that the minority portrait of how science is done (and I feel that she portrays that it should be done) is not as positive as the book has been promoted to be.
There is not enough talk about nonfiction on BookTube. Thank you!!
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lab girl is one of my very favourite books <3
These all sound marvelous and I’ve only read Kitchen Confidential. I’ll be coming back to this video later when I wang more recommendations
If you like nonfiction, I have an entire Facebook group dedicated to it. It’s got about 300 members. Join it here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2087988878131879/
Great list Olive! I read the curse of the boyfriend sweater earlier in the year after your review and it was so cozy. Ever since I started watching your channel two years ago I think my nonfiction reading went up significantly and I started reading it unapologetically. I hope you are having wonderful holidays and I look forward to your top fiction video!
sounds like a great and very diverse list, I love it!
Loved this! I hadn’t remembered you mentioning Eggshell Skull, so it was great to find a new recommendation out of this bunch. Also, I have some new crafters in my life since moving to a new town, and I think The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater will make an excellent gift 🙂
I’m always filled with a little bit of glee when I go on goodreads and see what new nonfiction you are reading and I frequently put it on my TBR list. Thanks for sharing your opinions and favorite books with us!
What a great list. I loved Lab Girl.
I am going to add the big short to my wishlist. Outta be fun. 🙂
For the first time probably ever, 2 memoirs topped my best of all books read: Becoming and Born a Crime.
Another great video! Two of my favorites were discoveries from your videos – The Speckled Monster and The History of The World in 6 Glasses. Another in my top ten was Destined for War – Can America and China avoid the Thucydides Trap. All excellent books, not only for the primary story they tell, but for other avenues of interest they opened for me!
I bought Lab Girl last December and still haven’t read it! I definitely need to make it a priority in 2019.