If there are any non fiction Storygraph (non-amazon owned alternative to Goodreads) users out there willing to share your username, please comment or DM me.
I’d like to see everything you’ve read/are reading for my own curiosity / to potentially add to my list. I love non fiction (sociology, memoir, politics, philosophy, feminism, history, health, art/poetry etc) but don’t know anyone with quite the same tastes. I use the app feature to find similar users but it’s a bit hit and miss.
To add some value to this post related to a specific book, my best somewhat niche recent recommendation is Darkness Now Visible by Carol Gilligan and David A.J Richards. They offer a fascinating and well written thesis about patriarchy in modern society
So, I no longer have Storygraph (I wanted something with an API, and after switching to Hardcover, I didn’t want to keep up with two platforms), so I can’t link that unfortunately. However, since we share some of the same interests and I’ve been keeping a list of nonfiction reads that I’ve enjoyed or find intriguing, I’ll type them here.
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler, trans. by Shaun Whiteside
Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages by the Women Who Were Written Out Of It by Janina Ramirez
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz
Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers by Marta McDowell
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York by Ross Perlin
Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace by Michelle Slatalla and Matthew Quittner
Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People? by Claire Dederer
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded by Jason Heller
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grizzly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching
The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation by Bill Morgan
EDIT — A few more suggestions, if you want them:
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler’s Tale by Amitav Ghosh
Great list - a lot of people will benefit from you sharing that. I’m particularly interested in Jesus and John Wayne and Masters of Deception. You would have quite the variety of knowledge in your brain from all these topics!