So you think you hate nonfiction
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 🎧






Something in the water🌊🦞🪼🪸
Nonfiction books exploring water and the life it sustains. Oceans, lakes, fish, and more.






Motion in the Ocean
just ocean nonfiction except I very clearly have an intense interest in sharks (I contain multitudes)






Ocean Love 🌊
Non-fiction books about the ocean and the life within it 💙 From seabirds, whales, sharks and deep sea creatures, all the way to fishing and diving and the ocean as a whole. Perfect as beach reads - or for whenever you have meerweh. These books dive deep - literally. ˙ ✩🫧°🪼˖⋆𓆉°:•.🐠*.•🪸.•:°






Crossroads: where memoirs meet science
One of my favourite niche genres is when memoirs are mixed with science, (or the other way around!— books about science that incorporate parts of the author’s life. The science also tends to be more accessible than in typical academic writing. So let’s read some books about people and their favourite science! P.S. please feel free to suggest more titles to add!






Just keep swimming
𓆞 𓆝 𓆟 Books about fish! 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞






non-fiction to talk about at parties
for those situations when you don't want to talk about your own life or the world around you...here are books that will provide trivia, interesting stories, or memorable quotes to regale your friends






Nature, wildlife and the outdoors
Nature, wildlife, outdoors and countryside books. Read at your leisure. Mostly non-fiction with a few fiction.






- nonfiction & nature -
from collections of scientific essays to philosophical observations of the natural world






blue is the eye (watches over the sea)
for all the terror and love of the ocean. title from: Blue is the Eye by The Vagabonds






Glasser top 100 books of the century (so far)
Top books from 2000-2024, as submitted by listeners of the Reading Glasses podcast! Survey and list website created by Sheila and Chad, I’ve just plugged it into Pagebound following the example of read_ofthe_stein, who did it for Storygraph. https://glasses.chadshost.xyz/






Dark Academia
yeah it’s cliche but i do like a lot of these books. both books that fit the dark academia genre and books dark academics would read.






Worth the Conversation
Books that linger, provoke, and demand a discussion.






Hyunjin’s book list






'granola girl' books
exactly what it says on the tin






wikihow to become a better person
some self-help books that will allow you to change your perspective.






The gays 🏳️🌈
Books (mostly romance) about all sorts of lgbtq+ people






Science Nonfiction for Noobs
one of my best friends is a biologist. I am but a curious soul. and we buddy read nature nonfic. 10/10 would rec






But Why?
I have a hard time with conceptual things without understanding why they exist or who decides that they matter. So we're gonna learn those things.






Scientific non-fiction that shook my world





