Last year one of my favourite bookish events here in the blogging community was Nonfiction November; it was my first time taking part but I quickly fell in love with it, for many reasons. Concluding the month, I just knew I had to take part again next year... And here we are!
This year I will be taking part in the weekly prompts (on a Wednesday), as well as posting reading record posts each week (on a Monday). My intention for the month of November is to work through some of the unread nonfiction titles currently sitting on my shelves, and to read more nonfiction books within the month than fiction.
For those unfamiliar, the weekly post prompts are linky style, and hosted by one of the five hosts of the event. You can see the host of this week's prompt written below, and all five hosts linked at the end of this post.
WEEK 3
BE THE EXPERT/ASK THE EXPERT/BECOME THE EXPERT hosted by Doing Dewey
Three ways to join in this week! You can either share 3 or more books on a single topic that you have read and recommend (be the expert), you can put the call out for good nonfiction on a specific topic that you have been dying to read (ask the expert), or you can create your own list of books on a topic that you'd like to read (become the expert).
This week I'm opting to ask the expert, and am looking to you all for recommendations... Please!
Something I've come to learn that I quite enjoy reading is books about journeys, in three different ways.
Firstly, I enjoy books about journeys that are quite fact based & informative.
Examples:
Secondly, I enjoy books about journeys that are of a person's experience journeying but still knowledgeable.
Examples:
Lastly, I enjoy books that are memoirs with people on a journey, but also a path of self discovery.
Examples:
I feel like the topic of journeys is quite broad, but hopefully by sharing specifics & examples of books I've enjoyed there will be a few new to me recommendations coming my way.
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NONFICTION NOVEMBER HOSTS
Well you already selected my two favourites in the category of memoirs with people on a journey!
ReplyDeleteKaren, @bookertalk.com
Both good reads; happy to hear you enjoyed them also.
DeleteI like your theme here! The 80 Trains book sounds really interesting.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Monika.
DeleteThe author of Around the World in 80 Trains also has a book specific to travelling India by train which I'm keen to read also.
I noticed this book, The Way to the Sea by Caroline Crampton, on a blogger's NonficNov post last week and added it to my own wishlist. Link to book on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42458130-the-way-to-the-sea
ReplyDeleteThank you for the recommendation!
DeleteHow To Be Married combines a literal journey as the author travels around the world with also a kind of spiritual/self-discovery journey as she learns about marriage in different cultures and how to apply it to her own.
ReplyDeleteOoo.. Interesting! Thank you for the recommendation!
DeleteI also love books about journeys, but I rarely make time to read them. I need to change that.
ReplyDeleteAj @ Read All The Things!
Armchair travel can be a lot of fun!
DeleteWhat a fun theme you have chosen for your expert post!
ReplyDelete"The Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston was an interesting journey story to me. It was about a journalist who traveled to the Honduran interior to help uncover a lost city.
Thank you for the recommendation!
DeleteGood topic! Have you read Paul Theroux's books? Riding the Iron Rooster? Or others.
ReplyDeleteLisa @ https://hopewellslibraryoflife.wordpress.com/2019/11/11/nonfiction-november-be-an-expert-seek-an-expert/
I haven't, no... But I've heard good things. Thank you!
DeleteA great subject choice! You might enjoy Tracks by Robyn Davidson about her trek across the Australian outback and Listening To Country by Ros Moriarty.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the recommendations!
DeleteI have some books for you!
ReplyDeleteWalking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time
Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
My Love Affair with England: A Traveler's Memoir
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
How to Travel without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America
Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa
Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia
Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
Dancing with the Witchdoctor: One Woman's Stories of Mystery and Adventure in Africa
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan (5 stars)
Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia
Life is a Wheel: A Passage Across America by Bicycle
The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World
The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
The World is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village
The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France
Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
Here are a few more:
ReplyDeleteAny book by Michael Palin
Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
Le Road Trip: A Traveler's Journal of Love and France
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's Languages
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Through Africa
A Journey North: One Woman's Story of Hiking the Appalachian Trail
Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
Any book by Paul Theroux
Travels in Siberia
The Spice Necklace: A Food-Lover's Caribbean Adventure
Way Off the Road: Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small Town America
The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World... via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes
A lot of Bill Bryson books
One for the Road: An Outback Adventure
Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
Spain...A Culinary Road Trip
Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India
Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto
Two for the Road: Our Love Affair with American Food
Mexican Days: Journeys into the Heart of Mexico
An Evening Among the Headhunters: And Other Reports from Roads Less Taken
Fried Eggs with Chopsticks: One Woman's Hilarious Adventure into a Country and a Culture Not Her Own
Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure
Fumbling: A Journey of Love, Adventure, and Renewal on the Camino de Santiago
Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
A Parrot in the Pepper Tree
Spanish Lessons: Beginning a New Life in Spain
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year
McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland
A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow': An American Hitchhiking Odyssey
Shooting the Boh: A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo (a personal favorite)
Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria
Faintheart: An Englishman Ventures North of the Border
The Spiritual Tourist: A Personal Odyssey Through the Outer Reaches of Belief
The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
A Border Passage: From Cairo to America – A Woman's Journey
Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
Shadow of the Silk Road
Zaatar Days, Henna Nights: Adventures, Dreams, and Destinations Across the Middle East
The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel
36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa
Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own
Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid
Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith
Around the World in 80 Dinners: The Ultimate Culinary Adventure
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Blue Highways
Lois on the Loose: One Woman, One Motorcycle, 20,000 Miles Across the Americas
Deb, you are a SUPERSTAR! Thank you for the recommendations.
DeleteI really liked Simon Armitage's two books, Walking Home and Walking Away: he's a poet, which adds a nice dimension.
ReplyDeleteI will look in to these - he was actually mentioned in The Salt Path which I read & loved. Thank you for the recommendations!
DeleteOoo good topics! I love a good journey combined with personal journey as well. :) I have nothing new to add but I will keep thinking about it. :)
ReplyDeleteAh, thank you Erin.
DeleteI love the way you analyzed and divided the journey books into different categories -- very astute!
ReplyDeleteIt was interesting to look at the topic of journeys as having such a wide scope - thank you!
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