Nonfiction is one of the giant genres in the world of literature. It contains multiple thought-provoking, heartwarming, and lesson-filled works that ignite multiple emotions from the readers. Memoir, biography, journalism, philosophy, history, travelogues, manuals, and essays are among the notable subgenres of nonfiction.
You can truly tell how big of impact nonfiction works bring to someone’s life when readers start to live by the words of a nonfiction book and /or author. What makes this genre more intimate and convincing is the fact that the stories and content are not made up but rather real. The genuineness of every story enhances its affectivity and meaning. Hence, here are some of the best nonfiction books that you should never miss reading.
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
This New York Times bestselling book was published in 2018. It was written by Robin DiAngelo and contains a foreword by Michael Eric Dyson. It investigates the fruitless response that white people exhibit when their inferences about race are being disputed. The book also talks about the way that the responses of the white people keep the racial inequality going.
The author cleverly highlights the events of white fragility and enables readers to get a better grasp on racism as an exercise unhindered to bad individuals. White fragility pertains to the withstanding actions that white individuals do if they are being racially challenged. It is composed of feelings of fear, conscience, rage and behaviors of wrangle and silence.
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is an award-winning nonfiction book written by surgeon Atul Gawande. It was published by Metropolitan Books in October 7, 2014. The book centers on different health care-related topics and also contains personal reflections and tales of the author. One of the things that it talked about was the end-of-life care, which refers to the health care bestowed upon an individual who is suffering from a terminal illness that turned out to be incurable and/or intensifying.
Moreover, the book introduces the investigation of diverse replica of senior living. Being Mortal serves as a reflection on the way individuals can better live along with age-lined impairment, serious disease, and nearing death. The author cries for a modification in the method that professionals in the field of medicine manage and medicate near death patients.
Alternate Reality: The Mostly True Story of How I Became a Sociopath by B. Steve Ross
B Steve Ross is the author of the remarkable nonfiction book titled Alternate Reality: The Mostly True Story of How I Became a Sociopath. It was published by Mill City Press, Inc. last April 1, 2020. This book tells the largely real stories of how Steve Ross was raised in a dysfunctional family along with flawed relationships in a comical manner. It also contains the story on how Ross conquered the downfalls of his youth in order to experience a better and abundant life.
This Alternate Reality book also talks about how people who experienced toxic and abusive relationships are aware of the uncertainties and fears that they carry into their following relationship. Hence, they always have an emotional baggage that may create a negative impact to their new relationship and, sooner or later, wreck the new one — which piles up to the many uncertainties and baggage to be carried to the next.
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir by T. Kira Madden
This memoir was published in March 5, 2019. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girsl: A Memoir is a heartwarming and inspiring book that was written by T. Kira Madden. According to the author of Know My Name, Channel Miller, “The book I wish I’d had growing up.” Moreover, this book has also garnered multiple recognitions, such as Paste Best Memoirs of the Decade, Elle Best Books of the Season, Best Books of 2019: Esquire O, The Oprah Magazine Variety, and more.
It is the debut memoir of the author that contains a coming of age tale of a queer and mixed-race teen. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls features how the protagonist was caught in the middle of a fierce conundrum of a place in Florida called Boca Raton where she discovered many shocking things, such as cult-like benefits, racial inequality, several white-collar felonies, and greatly masked catastrophic beauty standards.
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