Author Christopher Lloyd argues that facts are best

The Jazz Barn, John Gennari, Brandeis University Press, review

My kink roles revealed, and my thoughts about the results

This week’s Nonfiction November 2025 festivities are being hosted over on Deb Nance’s site, ReaderBuzz, with the prompt being: **_“New To My TBR: It’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books! Which ones have made it onto your TBR?”_** What a great month it’s been, and I feel exhausted! So many great new reads, conversations, and fun new blogs to follow. November is always a good time of year to have this event, as it gives us all a little time to add a few new titles to our wish lists. I’m already excited about next year’s reading. Over the 4 weeks of the event, I collected a list of 23 titles that sound like really good reads. I cut that down a bit and am sharing an “up first for me” list of ten titles, with links to the blogs where I read about them. These are all books that I hope to read sooner rather than later: 1. **_Bookish_** by Lucy Mangan 2. **_Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound_** by Kate Kennedy 3. **_The CIA Book Club_** by Charlie English 4. **_Strongmen_** by Ruth Ben-Ghiat 5. **_Cull of the Wild_** by Hugh Warwick 6. **_A Year With Gilbert White_** by Jenny Uglow. 7. **_We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite_** by Musa al-Gharbi 8. **_Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist_** by Aldous Huxley 9. **_The Common Good_** by Robert Reich 10. **_The Quiet Damage_** by Jesselyn Cook I was encouraged by some of the recurring themes and books folks, from across the globe, were reading. There were lots of books on the history of fascism/resistance/current affairs as well as nature. While not an official count, I did track the titles I saw pop up most often, and these had the most ticks on my notepad: * Raising Hare * Everything is Tuberculosis * On Tyranny Thank you to all the hosts this year. It really was fun. I hope you found some good reads this November, and I hope you have a fun place online to share your thoughts and reading. Thank you for stopping by and reading my posts during Nonfiction November 2025! Here are the links to my earlier Nonfiction November 2025 posts: * Week One * Week Two * Week Three * Week Four #nonficnov25 #nonfictionnovember ### Share this: * Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon * Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky * * Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * * ### Like this: Like Loading... ### _Related_

November is Nonfiction Month, so I thought I’d tell you about a few of my favourite nonfiction books.

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This is the final week of Nonfiction November, and the topic is which books we've added to our TBR list. It's hosted by Deb at Readerbuzz. Here are some of the books I've added to my TBR, with links so you can find out more. The "Best of 2025" book lists are starting to come out, so I'm sure I'll be adding even more to my TBR list.