As Determined by TWM: Best Nonfiction Books

I was recently scrolling through the Tanglewood Moms group when I saw this post:
“Best nonfiction you’ve read recently.”

Well. I DOVE into the comments. While fiction is the preferred genre for summer beach reading and winter cozy reading, I tend to read nonfiction in the spring. Weird, right?

Of course, the Tanglewood Moms came up with some amazing suggestions, much to my budget’s demise. But now I have a lovely large To Be Read pile on my bedside table, so thank you!

• A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
• I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennett McCurdy
• Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
• If My Heart Had Wings: A World War II Love Story by Nadine Taylor
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
• The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage into Self-Mastery by Brianna West
• The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
• Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg
• The 5AM Club: 11 Tips to Help You Wake Up Early, Energize, and Get Things Done by Michael Lombardi
• The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
• The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin
• Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Viginia Sole-Smith
• If You Only Knew: Navigating DNA Surprises and the *NPE World by Lezlee Liljenberg
• Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FB by David Grann
• The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South by John T. Edge
• The Disappearing Spoon and Other Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements by Sam Kean
• Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World by Jennie Allen
• When the Body Says No More: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection by Gabor Maté
• How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott Key
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
• Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Dallas-Fort Worth by Amy Martin
• Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants by Douglas W. Tallamy
• Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia
• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
• Feeding Each Other: Shaping Change in Food Systems through Relationship by Nicole Civita and Michelle Auerbach