Recs if you like Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland...

All of his picks since 2008, both summer reading lists and yearly round-ups.

These are some of my favorites and books I want to read--nonfiction that reads like fiction or is otherwise compelling. If you're intimidated by books on history, science, memoir, or other subgenres in nonfiction, start here.

Accessible non-fiction titles that are a good intro to the genre—suggestions always welcome! As an added bonus, most of the audiobooks are also great 🎧

Aka Dua Lipa’s reading list. Everyone’s fave popstar on permanent holiday with a massive list of books to read, and she always seems to have incredible recommendations.

I am not part of Service95 or affiliated with Dua Lipa. I am just a fan curating this list based on the @service95bookclub IG account 💋

reading is political.

recs welcome!

History is really just a convenient story if it's the government or a company pushing the narrative. Investigative and alternative perspectives to popular history.

A mix of reader favorites and editorial picks from The New York Times—100 books that defined the 21st century.

A collection of non-fiction titles exploring the history and culture of Ireland, united and apart. Recommendations welcome.

Dua Lipa’s book clip picks

Nonfiction on a single, weirdly specific topic

This list will contain books that made me go, "Wait what?" I am still not sure if I completely get them but I i think I semi-liked some of them 🤣 (p.s. I am adding recs by other users so some i havent read yet)

a collection of nonfiction works either not written by americans or not concerning america. from memoirs to more traditional historical/factual nonfiction, this list ties the world together through the lens of non-american stories.

recommendations welcome!

NYT Top 100 of the 21st Century: Reader's Choice. In order as published in 2024

In order from #1 (My Brilliant Friend) to 100 (Tree of Smoke)

Books that ignore the traditional way of telling a story. These books tell their stories in unexpected ways, through letters, transcripts, diaries, documents, text messages, or unconventional layouts.

Do you listen to True Crime Poscasts on a Friday night with your cat? Think you could solve the Unsolved?

Books featuring True Crimes of the Past and Present.

Nonfiction or “inspired by” allowed, but no straight up fiction. Suggestions welcome!

writers exploring life under war or dictatorship often explore these themes through the image of the desecrated corpse or perverted burial rite. the dead body is front and centre in these works, mostly from writers in the global south.

A list published in 2024 by the New York Times, as voted on by 503 novelists, poets, critics, and other book lovers—with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review

Every year, The Orwell Foundation awards prizes for the work which comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’. This list consists of all of the winners for Political Fiction & Political Writing (Non-Fiction) since 2019!

Service95 Book Club Monthly Reads + more and more books from their lists :)