Recs if you like Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects...

Nonfiction books about real cases of art theft, forgery, looting, and disappearance. Done either by individuals, by organizations, or by entire countries (cough cough Britain).

Creative expression x political themes

Books to fill the gaping voids made by our school systems.

Examining concepts of race, class, culture, ethnicity, colourism, separatism, belonging, supremacy, identity, & the effects of British colonialism.

Some books have these themes incidentally, but in most they are the core focus.

Suggestions welcome!

Polymath Training Challenge is a non-fiction reading challenge that has been running on a Hungarian book site for the past 11 years. Each year it has 12 categories that participants have to pick their own nonfiction reads for (incl. memoirs and biographies). I have discovered several amazing nonfiction books through this challenge, so I decided to make a list of the best, and most mind-blowing, of them so far.

Who ya gonna call?

Real life accounts of haunted places, people, and things.

Archaeo Bookclub selections, suggestions, & other archaeology-adjacent reads. See more at instagram.com/archaeobookclub