
I made it to Week 5, the final week! This has been a wonderful month of finding not just new reads but whole new blogs and people! My only regret is that I didn’t have enough time to visit everyone and reply all the time. My blogging hours are limited to when my son is in school three mornings a week, which is usually an acceptable amount of time, but this challenge needed a little more than that. I do plan on trying to go back and comment, and finish visiting those I missed though over the next week or so.
Also, because I am a person who takes notes on the backs of envelopes and random bits of paper, I lost one of my lists of reads and also a list with the names of the blogs I got books from. So… if you are reading this and see a book here that I have said I added but didn’t add the blogger and it is you, let me know so I can link back! I feel awful about it. Next year I will be more organized and better prepared. This was my first year, and I learned a lot and really enjoyed myself! Thanks to everyone who hosted and set this challenge up!
Which leads us to this last week, all of our new books added to our TBR, hosted by Rennie at What’s Nonfiction:
Week 5: (Nov. 25 to 30) – New to My TBR – Rennie @ What’s Nonfiction : It’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books! Which ones have made it onto your TBR? Be sure to link back to the original blogger who posted about that book!
Memoir/Essays
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone : Books Are My Favorite and Best
Pancakes in Paris – Musings of a Literary Wanderer
Kitchen Yarns – Unruly Reader
Apple Island Wife – Secret Library Site
Where the Hornbeam Grows – What Cathy Read Next
Out East – Novel Visits
The Reluctant Hotelkeeper – Superfluous Reading
An Elephant in My Kitchen – Superfluous Reading
Educated – Cozy Reading Nook
The Man Who Climbs Trees – Booksplease
The Stranger in the Woods – Book Lovers Pizza
As You Wish – Sincerely Stacie
The Salt Path – Booker Talk
My Wedding Dress – Ex Urbanis
North of Normal – Kristin Kraves Books
Home Cooking – Cozy Reading Nook
Letters from Iceland – Liz D.
Iceland Defrosted – Liz D.
The Solace of Wide Open Spaces – What’s Nonfiction
Spirituality/Self Help
Welcoming the Unwelcome – Lovely Book Shelf
Tiny Beautiful Things – Book Lovers Pizza
Thriving as an Empath – Lisa Notes
The Road Back to You – Lisa Notes
If at Birth You Don’t Succeed – Based on a True Story
History
Expeditions Unpacked – Julz Reads
A Bite-Sized History of France – Deb @ Readerbuzz
The Evolution of Useful Things
Poe: A Life Cut Short : Katenread
The Five – Doing Dewey Decimal
Letters of a Woman Homesteader – Hopewells Library of Life
Dead Wake – The Paperback Princess
I also think Bryan’s post for expert week was pretty important – so I just added the whole list. One More Page as well
The Road to Jonestown – Scifantastor
Nature
The Hidden Life of Trees – Deb @ Readerbuzz
The Wild Remedy – Jade @ Reading with Jade
The Big Year – Deb @ Readerbuzz
North on the Wing – Deb @ Readerbuzz
Weird and Wild Beauty – Deb @ Readerbuzz
H is for Hawk – Deb @ Readerbuzz
Wilderness Essays John Muir – Deb @ Readerbuzz
The Soul of an Octopus – Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out
21st-Century Yokel – Secret Library Site (which I already bought and read!)
Gathering Moss – An Adventure in Reading – (pretty sure this is next on my list)
Under Land – Doing Dewey Decimal
Around the World in 80 Trees – Superfluous Reading
Braving It – Musings of a Literary Wanderer
Forest Bathing – Readerbuzz
Birders – Tale of a Tribe – Liz D.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – What’s Nonfiction
Humor
#IMOMSOHARD – Never Enough Novels
True Crime
The Crimes of Paris – What’s Nonfiction
After the Eclipse – Rather Too Fond of Books
Then Shelleyrae had a crazy good list of women serial killers (does that sound weird? lol)
Decor
Cozy White Cottage – Unruly Reader
Cozy Minimalist Home – Unruly Reader
Travel
Science
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? – Maphead’s Book Blog
Tamed – Kate Vane
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife – What’s Nonfiction
Bad Science – What’s Nonfiction
Quiet – Booksplease
Gender
The Gender Agenda – Rather Too Fond of Books
Books about Books
The Novel Cure – Books are my favorite and best
Fiction
Split Tooth – Lovely Bookshelf
Cape May – Novel Visits
Podcasts
Redhanded – What’s Nonfiction
Thanks for the mention! Hope you like the books when you read them!! 😄
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I am excited to read them!
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You got a lot of great titles!!
It still surprises me how much effort this event takes. Thanks for the mention!
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For real!! It was definitely worth it though. So many great new books and blogs! 🙂
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This is such an amazing list!!! I’m so glad you got so many, and that you had fun participating 🙂 My first year I was scrambling to put together the TBR list too, but don’t worry, it only happens once. Yours is so organized already though!
I’m glad I could recommend you a few that I thought were amazing. I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on them. I can emphatically second the recs for The Five, Underland, Quiet, Poisoner’s Handbook, After the Eclipse, Kitchen Yarns, and Pancakes in Paris. All of those are outstanding. And earlier this year I finally got to visit the American diner in Paris from Pancakes in Paris and I was SO excited (I imagine it was like your Savannah trip but on a smaller scale, lol).
Thanks for the recommendations you gave me too – I am so eagerly anticipating Sound of a Wild Snail Eating!
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I had such a good time participating! This was pretty awesome, especially since I am trying to increase the amount of nonfiction I am reading. 🙂 I am really excited to read Pancakes in Paris actually lol, but I am waiting for the Paris in July event, so I have some time to wait. And how cool you visited the diner! I love literary inspired trips and outings. LOL. I wonder how many of us do that, make trips to places we read about, especially for a diner or a house? I know that my dad loves the movie Fried Green Tomatoes and he went to the Whistle Stop Cafe once while on vacation. (I don’t think he has read the book) Hmm.
And this list. LOL. I already have my plan in place for next year. I am going to have a draft going all month of all my new books, to keep it in one place. Hopefully. Chances are though, it will be written on scraps of paper once again since that is how I roll. Lol.
Thanks for all your enthusiasm and comments and suggestions!!
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The Road to Jonestown is dense, but it’s super informative. I loved The Stranger in the Woods. The Salt Path is now on my TBR list thanks to Nonfiction November.
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I am thinking about getting The Road to Jonestown on audio. How do you think that will translate to that medium? I’m not a big audio book person usually but I do listen to podcasts.
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Wow…my entire list and One More Page’s too? Whoa. I don’t even know if I would add my entire list. 🙂 I don’t even know when honestly that I’m going to get to them.
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I added them! It might take me forever to get there and read them but they are there! 🙂
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Thanks so much to linking to my recommendation of After the Eclipse and The Gender Agenda, I really appreciate it. I’ve struggled to keep up with commenting and replying to comments this month too but it’s been fab to find new bloggers to follow and I’ve really enjoyed joining in. I hope you enjoy all of the books you’ve added this month! 🙂
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Thanks! I am looking forward to reading it. I am super interested in it actually, and I am looking forward to learning from it.
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Thank you for the mentions and for linking back to me! I totally hadn’t realised we were supposed to link to where we saw the books so just kept a list and hoped no one was offended! I will do better next time. And yes, it was quite hard to keep up with all the new bloggers and posts. I hope new commenters like you and others will keep reading my blog and I’m so pleased to have so many new bloggers to follow!
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I know! I am so excited about that as well! It opened up a whole new world of bloggers and books! I am sure no one was offended either. 🙂
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That’s really awesome. I’m glad you got a chance to enjoy the challenge and discover new blogs and people and books 😀
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Yes, it was so wonderful to find new people and books! Especially since I am sort of new to nonfiction reading. There are so many great options out there!
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I am overwhelmed! Bravo to you! I thought I read a lot but you take the cake! Three cheers!
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Well I may or may not finish them all! Lol. But they are on my list and I will definitely start them – it might just take a while to get through! Lol.
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LOL on how you take notes but kudos for you on even taking notes. I get so lazy when it comes to books and trying to remember points to mention about them on the blog.
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Haha I am so organized yet scattered! 🙂 Lol. I knew this post was coming so I tried to be prepared – I managed to get halfway there! 🙂
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Thank you for the mentions! Hope you enjoy Pancakes in Paris and Braving It!
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I am so excited to read them both!
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I loved this event, and like you found sooo many to add to my TBR. I hope you get a chance to enjoy my recommendations, and thanks for sharing yours.
Please stop by to see my NonFicNov: New to My TBR + Wrap Up
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I’m so reassured to know I am not the only one who scribbles notes on any bit of paper that just comes to hand. Then I lose it. When I do find it months later I either can’t read my writing or don’t know what the note is meant to be about……
So glad to see my recommendation for the Salt Path resonated with you. It is really a very special book
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Lol yes!! Exactly!! And I am looking forward to that one. I think I might have my husband listen to it as well, so we can talk about it.
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Excellent idea…..
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