hopecore nonfiction for when you are grieving 🫂
This list is made possible by all the 🫛🐝’ers who came through for me during a terrible breakup. I asked the club for joyful nonfiction recs because fiction is too emotionally fraught for what I’m going through.
I hope these books can bring you some hope, relief, or perspective. Together, we can get through this 😊
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The Wainwright Prize Longlists 2026
All the books on the Conservation and Nature Writing longlists for the 2026 Wainwright Prize. (non-fiction)
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we are each others ropes 🌱
while the world tries to divide us, let's entangle roots and stories and hearts and build communities and connections that outlast the dark times. Together we can heal, together we can thrive. These books will make you feel less alone and help you grow real life connections 🤍
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Refresh and decolonize your mind
Let's break through the fog of the capitalist, racist, colonial system that is holding all of us down. For a new world, we need new perspectives. (this list is from a white european girl, so PLEASE also seek out recommendations from BIPOC creators!!)
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Finding Hope and Whimsy
Books that feel like a warm hug and leave us feeling hopeful and whimsical, a little light amidst the dark. For the days we cannot have any more reality but instead need a cup of fluffy dreams and a pick-me-up and some optimism for the future
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Books that are Time Machines
I recently read How To Fall In Love With The Future and was thinking of books that remind me of that method of imagining a future where the reforms we want have already happened and imagining how we got there. If anyone has suggestions I'm incredibly open to it!
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