Non-fiction is one of the genres that I really wanted to get into last year. And I am happy to say I read 21 non-fiction books last year. Here is a list of my favourite non-fiction books that I've ever read.
1) Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Chanel Miller's story changed our world forever. In 2016 Brock Turner was sentenced to just six months in jail after he was caught sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. His light sentencing, and Chanel's victim impact statement, which was read by eleven million people in four days, sparked international outrage and action.
2) A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
In the summer of June of 1991, Jaycee was a normal kid. she did normal things. she had friends and a mother that loved her. She was just like you. Until the day her life was stolen.
For eighteen years she was a prisoner. she was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years she was not allowed to speak her own name. she became a mother and was forced to be a sister. For eighteen years she survived an impossible situation.
On August 26, 2009, she took her name back. Her name is Jaycee Lee Dugard. She doesn’t think of herself as a victim, she simply survived an intolerable situation. A Stolen Life is her story—in her own words, in her own way, exactly as she remembers it.
3) I'd rather be Reading by Anne Bogel
I'd Rather Be Reading is the perfect literary companion for everyone who feels that way. In this collection of charming and relatable reflections on the reading life, beloved blogger and author Anne Bogel leads readers to remember the book that first hooked them, the place where they first fell in love with reading and all of the moments afterwards that helped make them the reader they are today. Known as a reading tastemaker through her popular podcast What Should I Read Next? Bogel invites book lovers into a community of like-minded people to discover new ways to approach literature, learn fascinating new things about books and publishing, and reflect on the role reading plays in their lives.
4) Boy Erased by Garrard Conley
The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small-town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to cure him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life. Through an institutionalized Twelve-Step Program heavy on Bible study, he was supposed to emerge heterosexual, ex-gay, cleansed of impure urges and stronger in his faith in God for his brush with sin. Instead, even when faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Garrard found the strength and understanding to break out in search of his true self and forgiveness.
5) The Little Book of Pride by Lewis Laney
What began as a protest for gay rights following the Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York has grown to become a global celebration of LGBTQ culture. In the 50-odd years since the original protest, and what is now widely accepted to be the first Pride march—Christopher Street Liberation Day, 1970—Pride events are now attended by millions each year, celebrating how far we’ve come, recognizing where we have to go, and highlighting important causes in the queer community.
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