My Year in Non-Fiction

This week’s theme for Nonfiction November is “My Year in Non-fiction”, so I dug into my StoryGraph stats a bit as a starting point, finding I’ve read 83 books that StoryGraph classes as non-fiction — so far! That does seem to include some of the poetry anthologies that I’ve read, but even so, I think it’s likely to be too many books to feature them all… so let’s talk mostly about the good ‘uns. You might also be interested in my post from last year, which took a theme-based approach. Five-star non-fiction I read in 2026: This is what it says on the tin: the handful of books I gave my highest and rarest rating. As you see, it’s a pretty select bunch! Here are links to the reviews: A History of England in 25 Poems (Catherine Clarke) Ramesses the Great: Egypt’s King of Kings (Toby Wilkinson) The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History (Selena Wisnom) I’m surprised no science books made it into this tier, but thinking back on this year, I haven’t read a whole lot…

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