Nonfiction November TBR: A Journey of Exploration and Discovery

As I sit down to plan my Nonfiction November TBR, I feel a thrill of excitement mixed with a dash of nervousness. This month-long journey is all about diving into books that promise to challenge, educate, and inspire me. With a diverse range of titles lined up, I'm eager to explore different genres, perspectives, and formats.

First on my radar is Carmen Maria Machado's memoir "In the Dream House." I've been a fan of Machado's work since her recent poetry collection "American Sunrise," which was a game-changer for me. As the new Poet Laureate of the United States, she continues to push boundaries with her writing, and this memoir is no exception. With its frank discussion of domestic abuse in queer relationships, I know that this book will be a difficult read, but one that I'm eager to tackle. Machado's beautiful prose and unflinching honesty promise to make this a powerful and necessary read.

Next up is Sayid Jones' memoir "How We Fight for Our Lives." I picked up an advance copy of this book at Book Expo, and from what I've heard so far, it's going to be a real game-changer. As one of the most talked-about memoirs of the year, I'm both intrigued and intimidated by its subject matter. Jones' writing style, if it's any good (I haven't had a chance to listen to the audiobook yet), will likely offer a unique perspective on growing up queer in Ohio. With its focus on intersectionality, identity, and resilience, this book is already promising to be a fascinating read.

On the horizon are two books that promise to delve into different eras of American history: John T Edge's "Pot Luck Papers: A Food History of the Modern South" and Michael W Twitty's "The Cooking Gene." Both authors bring their expertise in culinary history, but they approach it from distinct perspectives. As someone who's always been fascinated by food as a cultural phenomenon, I'm excited to explore these books together. Edge's book offers a comprehensive look at the evolution of Southern cuisine, while Twitty's memoir delves into the complex history of African-American cooking in the South. With their differing backgrounds and approaches, I expect these books will provide a rich tapestry of perspectives on food, identity, and culture.

Finally, I have to mention that I've picked up an audio copy of Sayid Jones' memoir "How We Fight for Our Lives," which should give me a unique perspective on the book. Although I know it'll be a difficult read, I'm looking forward to immersing myself in Jones' story and exploring his experiences as a queer person of color growing up in Ohio.

As Nonfiction November approaches, I feel a sense of anticipation building. With these books lined up, I'm ready to embark on a journey of discovery and exploration. Whether it's delving into memoirs, history, or food writing, this month promises to be an exciting adventure. Stay tuned for updates from my TBR as I dive into each book and explore the world of nonfiction.

If you're also embarking on Nonfiction November, I'd love to hear about your TBR plans! What books have you picked up? Are there any authors or topics that you're particularly excited to explore? Share your thoughts in the comments below, and let's support each other throughout this month-long journey.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello my name is kyndra Winchester and welcome back to my channel that's Dillon over there in the corner serenading us with his wonderful crunching noises as he plays with his toys and he looks like this so for those of you who are like why on earth is that crunching noise in the background it's because of this face I can't really blame me right right alright so November is nonfiction November where all of the bookish community it's really excited over nonfiction titles and I don't typically do nonfiction November I just read whatever because November is typically the time when I'm just catching up on everything because my reading women award reading is over I'm so excited now that I didn't love the books but like you know me I'm a mood reader and having a very like structured TBR is just not my jam so I'm so excited to do something a little different so I'm gonna be reading a lot of nonfiction now I am gonna be reading some fiction during the month so I came up a little different little strategy for myself and so we're gonna go over that via the books on my TBR alright so let's jump right in so I actually started nonfiction November about 10 days early and I did that because I knew some days I would need to read fiction just for other deadlines that I have but also just because I wanted to by not so the first book on my TBR that I've actually already started is these truths and this is by Jill poor this is a history of the United States from even before its founding from the indigenous populations that were on the North American continent to the present and I am so excited to read this I haven't studied history since I was in high school and Mindy Nelson the executive editor at book riot and I were on a panel earlier this year at a Book Festival and so she recommended this during that panel and like everyone and their mother's brother went and bought it I was one of those people and so I'm greatly looking forward to this book and so I thought I was gonna buddy read this with Sam my spouse but he was like no I'm just not feeling in American history right now he just finished the wrong turn out Hamilton biographies things like like I'm just I'm just done for a while it's like okay I will read it then so I have the audiobook and I started it a few days ago and in 24 hours I listened to about ten hours of audio granted I do have the audio on like a higher speed but nevertheless I found this riveting and I'm not a huge fan like a big history fan I enjoy reading it sometimes but I was just very much surprised how much I'm enjoying this book so I'm about a third of the way through the 30 hour audiobook but this is my top priority that I had for nonfiction November and I've already almost finished it and technically November hasn't even started and so when Sam didn't want to read about American history I was like well what about Mary beard SPQR a history of ancient Rome and so he was like okay sure so this is the one that we are going to buddy read together I picked this up at the booktube prize meetup at a used bookstore very thrilled to find it very excited to read it with Sam and so I will let you know how it goes but at this rate I will probably finish these throughs before November actually starts and then this will be the big book that I'll be working on throughout November so the calm gorgeous that is Mary beard is so fabulous I read wilmut women in power and that was a great like little essay about women and power and classics and how it related to that and now we're on to a little hefty guy there while I'm reading these big books I also have some smaller books that I want to read and I think essay collections are a great great way to fit more things in sort of like like filling in the cracks as it were of the time that you have or if you don't want to like have to like dive back in mentally to this giant history text you can dip in and out of essay collection so I have to to show you I'm looking forward to over a black robe I glory Eden I put this up at Book Expo and she signed it in Rosslyn I met her and she took her photos with us that she's just a lovely human being so gracious she didn't know us from Adam but that's fine that's fine I'm excited so that's an anthology with several different black women writers and then this essay collection is by Leslie Jamison you know if you've been watching my channel I have a somewhat fraught relationship with Leslie Jameson's work because she's so talented I I know so few people living that can write prose like Leslie Jamison the problem that I have is that oftentimes because she comes from such a privileged background that she's kind of clueless about the things that she's trying to look at and sometimes the very things she's asking are kind of insulting and I found some problems with her essay collection the empathy exams where she looks at people who are ill chronically ill or whatever and I was really upset about some of those but I loved some of the other essays in that collection but it just made me very angry at the time I wrote a really like scathing review and I posted it like everywhere I was so mad I've taken all that down now but she did a great job in many ways with her most recent book I forget it was about her experience being an alcoholic and like tracking alcoholism and how we member mantis eyes that with writers and different things and it was very skillfully written but oftentimes did come across as very privileged and like she was trying so hard to be like a bad person but she worked so beautifully and there are so many sections of that that were so beautiful but on a whole it was kind of a hot mess but but she grew I could tell she grew from everything exams to that book and I'll put the cover of that book over this so you can see what one I'm talking about I can't remember I give all that background to say that I'm looking forward to this because autumn said that all the things that we have been criticizing she kind of reflects on in this book and acknowledges that her past work she has been writing from a place of privilege and she is acknowledging that in this book so so talented I am glad that she grows and I think we should allow riders to grow and move through their work especially considering topics and the thought processes and different things so I'm looking forward to this so much kind so we'll see what happens but I hope that she has grown over the course of time I did meet her at book sex Expo well and she was so lovely so you know she's winning me over slowly but surely so I also have some memoirs the memoirs are some of my favorite non-fiction books because I love how strong a voice can be in a memoir and how they're like telling their own story especially with women I just love books by women memoirs and so one of them is ordinary girls by jaqui ideas this is her memoir and I picked this up at Seba I went to dinner where she was you know promoting her book and so we all got signed copies and it was beautiful and wonderful I'm so excited I heard nothing but great things I saw this book at Book Expo and I picked up up ARC there but I've heard so many great things since then about this book very excited I'm just gonna like wave the book around until everybody goes and picks it up just that frilled another memoir by woman is this one I picked it up recently on business people's day I felt like this was a good way to celebrate was to support our new poet laureate of the United States joy Harjo I recently read an American sunrise which is her most recent poetry collection and this is her memoir that came out a few years ago crazy brave and so I'm very much looking forward to this I really liked American sunrise I really loved all the pieces about her they've come out since she was named poet laureate I'm just I'm so thrilled so thrilled for her so thrilled to read it one of my most anticipated books of this year is carmen maria Machado's the Dreamhouse gray wolf sent me this book in advance it comes out on November 2nd so you will definitely still be able to read it for it nonfiction November the audiobook comes out then too so I can't really read it until then but oh my goodness I'm so excited for this book but I'm also aware that this book will be a difficult book to read because Carmen is maria machado is looking at hi baby how are you but I also know it'll be a very difficult book to read because herman rio machado is looking at domestic abuse in queer relationships and discussing that in this memoir and I think it's such an important topic that we do need to read more about as a bookish community but she writes so beautifully and so I feel like she will handle things well and I've heard nothing but amazing things about this memoir and I cannot wait to listen to it so last one I have is a memoir not by a woman this is how we fight for our lives by Sayid Jones and I picked this up at Book Expo and I am really looking forward to reading this memoir as one of the most talked-about memoirs of the year and I've heard nothing but great things I have the audio and I think he reads the audio of this book I will correct myself if that's not the case but oh I'm so excited for it also he talks a lot about Ohio and that is where I'm from so the last two books I'm looking forward to pairing together and that is the pot liquor papers a food is a food history of the modern South by John T edge and the cooking gene by a Michael W Twitty a journey through african-american culinary history in the south and so Michael W xx was a worked at Colonial Williamsburg and he was one of the first African American men if not the first to master a certain era of historical ways of cooking and so I think this will be a really interesting contrast with this book which is more about the modern South well this is about more historical things but also the differences in perspective of their different backgrounds will be really interesting I think together they'll give a well-rounded view of food history in the South I've lived in the South about eleven years now and so it's always been very interesting to me to see how food is such an integral part of the culture and as someone who has never been able to eat much of it because I'm gluten free dairy free I found it's so interesting to learn from that perspective and I'm of course very much into food books so I think that this will be a great way to look at both history food race class and time periods and all of the different intersections that these books together cover so I think they'll be a great pair together so those are the last books on my nonfiction November TBR I'm sure I will read more books than those are maybe just different books than those I don't know it is a journey it's a journey that we're going to go on in November I think I am going to do some stories about them over on my Instagram and maybe pin them over the course of nonfiction November to talk about out the books that I have been reading over there and a sort of vlog type of style so if you would like to go follow my nonfiction November journey go check out my instagram @ KD Winchester I'm that's my username across all platforms so you can also go find me on Twitter and in various other places but yeah I am so excited to head into nonfiction November I haven't been able to make a TBR like this and plan for a long time because it's been so busy so yes all right tell me all the things about your nonfiction in November TBR are you trying to tackle big books little books just whatever you like are you gonna read on a whim let me know all the things alright thanks for watching guys and I'll see you the next one byehello my name is kyndra Winchester and welcome back to my channel that's Dillon over there in the corner serenading us with his wonderful crunching noises as he plays with his toys and he looks like this so for those of you who are like why on earth is that crunching noise in the background it's because of this face I can't really blame me right right alright so November is nonfiction November where all of the bookish community it's really excited over nonfiction titles and I don't typically do nonfiction November I just read whatever because November is typically the time when I'm just catching up on everything because my reading women award reading is over I'm so excited now that I didn't love the books but like you know me I'm a mood reader and having a very like structured TBR is just not my jam so I'm so excited to do something a little different so I'm gonna be reading a lot of nonfiction now I am gonna be reading some fiction during the month so I came up a little different little strategy for myself and so we're gonna go over that via the books on my TBR alright so let's jump right in so I actually started nonfiction November about 10 days early and I did that because I knew some days I would need to read fiction just for other deadlines that I have but also just because I wanted to by not so the first book on my TBR that I've actually already started is these truths and this is by Jill poor this is a history of the United States from even before its founding from the indigenous populations that were on the North American continent to the present and I am so excited to read this I haven't studied history since I was in high school and Mindy Nelson the executive editor at book riot and I were on a panel earlier this year at a Book Festival and so she recommended this during that panel and like everyone and their mother's brother went and bought it I was one of those people and so I'm greatly looking forward to this book and so I thought I was gonna buddy read this with Sam my spouse but he was like no I'm just not feeling in American history right now he just finished the wrong turn out Hamilton biographies things like like I'm just I'm just done for a while it's like okay I will read it then so I have the audiobook and I started it a few days ago and in 24 hours I listened to about ten hours of audio granted I do have the audio on like a higher speed but nevertheless I found this riveting and I'm not a huge fan like a big history fan I enjoy reading it sometimes but I was just very much surprised how much I'm enjoying this book so I'm about a third of the way through the 30 hour audiobook but this is my top priority that I had for nonfiction November and I've already almost finished it and technically November hasn't even started and so when Sam didn't want to read about American history I was like well what about Mary beard SPQR a history of ancient Rome and so he was like okay sure so this is the one that we are going to buddy read together I picked this up at the booktube prize meetup at a used bookstore very thrilled to find it very excited to read it with Sam and so I will let you know how it goes but at this rate I will probably finish these throughs before November actually starts and then this will be the big book that I'll be working on throughout November so the calm gorgeous that is Mary beard is so fabulous I read wilmut women in power and that was a great like little essay about women and power and classics and how it related to that and now we're on to a little hefty guy there while I'm reading these big books I also have some smaller books that I want to read and I think essay collections are a great great way to fit more things in sort of like like filling in the cracks as it were of the time that you have or if you don't want to like have to like dive back in mentally to this giant history text you can dip in and out of essay collection so I have to to show you I'm looking forward to over a black robe I glory Eden I put this up at Book Expo and she signed it in Rosslyn I met her and she took her photos with us that she's just a lovely human being so gracious she didn't know us from Adam but that's fine that's fine I'm excited so that's an anthology with several different black women writers and then this essay collection is by Leslie Jamison you know if you've been watching my channel I have a somewhat fraught relationship with Leslie Jameson's work because she's so talented I I know so few people living that can write prose like Leslie Jamison the problem that I have is that oftentimes because she comes from such a privileged background that she's kind of clueless about the things that she's trying to look at and sometimes the very things she's asking are kind of insulting and I found some problems with her essay collection the empathy exams where she looks at people who are ill chronically ill or whatever and I was really upset about some of those but I loved some of the other essays in that collection but it just made me very angry at the time I wrote a really like scathing review and I posted it like everywhere I was so mad I've taken all that down now but she did a great job in many ways with her most recent book I forget it was about her experience being an alcoholic and like tracking alcoholism and how we member mantis eyes that with writers and different things and it was very skillfully written but oftentimes did come across as very privileged and like she was trying so hard to be like a bad person but she worked so beautifully and there are so many sections of that that were so beautiful but on a whole it was kind of a hot mess but but she grew I could tell she grew from everything exams to that book and I'll put the cover of that book over this so you can see what one I'm talking about I can't remember I give all that background to say that I'm looking forward to this because autumn said that all the things that we have been criticizing she kind of reflects on in this book and acknowledges that her past work she has been writing from a place of privilege and she is acknowledging that in this book so so talented I am glad that she grows and I think we should allow riders to grow and move through their work especially considering topics and the thought processes and different things so I'm looking forward to this so much kind so we'll see what happens but I hope that she has grown over the course of time I did meet her at book sex Expo well and she was so lovely so you know she's winning me over slowly but surely so I also have some memoirs the memoirs are some of my favorite non-fiction books because I love how strong a voice can be in a memoir and how they're like telling their own story especially with women I just love books by women memoirs and so one of them is ordinary girls by jaqui ideas this is her memoir and I picked this up at Seba I went to dinner where she was you know promoting her book and so we all got signed copies and it was beautiful and wonderful I'm so excited I heard nothing but great things I saw this book at Book Expo and I picked up up ARC there but I've heard so many great things since then about this book very excited I'm just gonna like wave the book around until everybody goes and picks it up just that frilled another memoir by woman is this one I picked it up recently on business people's day I felt like this was a good way to celebrate was to support our new poet laureate of the United States joy Harjo I recently read an American sunrise which is her most recent poetry collection and this is her memoir that came out a few years ago crazy brave and so I'm very much looking forward to this I really liked American sunrise I really loved all the pieces about her they've come out since she was named poet laureate I'm just I'm so thrilled so thrilled for her so thrilled to read it one of my most anticipated books of this year is carmen maria Machado's the Dreamhouse gray wolf sent me this book in advance it comes out on November 2nd so you will definitely still be able to read it for it nonfiction November the audiobook comes out then too so I can't really read it until then but oh my goodness I'm so excited for this book but I'm also aware that this book will be a difficult book to read because Carmen is maria machado is looking at hi baby how are you but I also know it'll be a very difficult book to read because herman rio machado is looking at domestic abuse in queer relationships and discussing that in this memoir and I think it's such an important topic that we do need to read more about as a bookish community but she writes so beautifully and so I feel like she will handle things well and I've heard nothing but amazing things about this memoir and I cannot wait to listen to it so last one I have is a memoir not by a woman this is how we fight for our lives by Sayid Jones and I picked this up at Book Expo and I am really looking forward to reading this memoir as one of the most talked-about memoirs of the year and I've heard nothing but great things I have the audio and I think he reads the audio of this book I will correct myself if that's not the case but oh I'm so excited for it also he talks a lot about Ohio and that is where I'm from so the last two books I'm looking forward to pairing together and that is the pot liquor papers a food is a food history of the modern South by John T edge and the cooking gene by a Michael W Twitty a journey through african-american culinary history in the south and so Michael W xx was a worked at Colonial Williamsburg and he was one of the first African American men if not the first to master a certain era of historical ways of cooking and so I think this will be a really interesting contrast with this book which is more about the modern South well this is about more historical things but also the differences in perspective of their different backgrounds will be really interesting I think together they'll give a well-rounded view of food history in the South I've lived in the South about eleven years now and so it's always been very interesting to me to see how food is such an integral part of the culture and as someone who has never been able to eat much of it because I'm gluten free dairy free I found it's so interesting to learn from that perspective and I'm of course very much into food books so I think that this will be a great way to look at both history food race class and time periods and all of the different intersections that these books together cover so I think they'll be a great pair together so those are the last books on my nonfiction November TBR I'm sure I will read more books than those are maybe just different books than those I don't know it is a journey it's a journey that we're going to go on in November I think I am going to do some stories about them over on my Instagram and maybe pin them over the course of nonfiction November to talk about out the books that I have been reading over there and a sort of vlog type of style so if you would like to go follow my nonfiction November journey go check out my instagram @ KD Winchester I'm that's my username across all platforms so you can also go find me on Twitter and in various other places but yeah I am so excited to head into nonfiction November I haven't been able to make a TBR like this and plan for a long time because it's been so busy so yes all right tell me all the things about your nonfiction in November TBR are you trying to tackle big books little books just whatever you like are you gonna read on a whim let me know all the things alright thanks for watching guys and I'll see you the next one bye\n"