extra effort to read non-fiction books. Although I am mostly a fiction reader, I do intersperse my intake of engrossing fiction with the occasional work of non-fiction.
But in the spirit of the month, I am going try to read a couple of books that have been patiently waiting on my Kobo for months now. I still have to finish Pachinko before the National Book Awards next week, but once I am done I'll hit these two:
In the spirit of the 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution, I am going to hit up China Miéville's October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. Miéville is obviously a renowned weird fiction/sci-fi/fantasy author who has plenty of accolades. Lesser known is his long history as a revolutionary socialist. His take on the Russian Revolution should be a winner, good enough to have made Publisher Weekly's Top Non-Fiction of 2017.
The next one will likely take more than a month to read though, coming in at 752 pages. Heather Ann Thompson's Pulitzer-winning tome about the Attica prison uprising in the 1970s, Blood in the Water, and the government cover up in its aftermath caught my attention when it came out last year and every time I have caught an interview with Thompson the more I have wanted to dig into the text. I've been waiting for the audiobook but it appears that the library isn't going to get it any time soon, so I'll hit it in text.
So what non-fiction book is waiting for you to read?
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