Non-fiction books that have fascinated, comforted, inspired and excited me 💡 

Sociopath sounds so good! that cover!

Thank you for the recommendations, I will definetely pick up "Think like a woman" and the book by Claire McIntosh. I really enjoyed the book beginners by Tom Vanderbuilt and "When breath becomes air" another book about breavement.

I read a ton of nonfiction and I actually prefer it to fiction. Great video. Thanks.

I like nonfiction but I just don't seem to read too much of it. I did read Educated by Tara Westover some time ago though and that was quite an intriguing story.

Have you ever read Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking? She wrote it after losing her husband.

Hi Jasmine, I really wished you could read "Triste tigre" ("Sad tiger") by French author Neige Sinno about incest. It is such an important, crucial topic, yet not talked about enough! It led me to listening to Charlotte Pudlowski's podcast "Ou peut-être une nuit", adapted into a book too ("Or maybe one night", after a song by Barbara I think). "Triste tigre" has won many prizes in France, I hope it'll get translated!! It's very intelligent, full of references (incl. to Nabokov's "Lolita") and very interesting reflections on justice, art, literature, etc. I have written an article about it on my blog but it's in French... It's both autobiographical and literary, very honest and full of nuances... It raises many, many questions and shows the consequences of incest on the victims - not to forget that there are direct victims, but some people around are also involved, who may have suffered, be complicit, etc. "Triste tigre" also shows that incest is a systemic issue, not just something happenning in one or two families, not just a miscellaneous news item. It also shows the weight of silence, the terrible mechanisms at play, both for individuals and on a societal level... An article, which I haven't read, has been published on BookBlast about "Sad tiger", written by Georgia de Chamberet. According to a "sondage" (poll/survey?) by Ipsos for Face à l'inceste (4 and 5/11/2020), 1 in 10 French people say they are victims of incest. I still have to look into the numbers in the UK - G. de Chamberet mentions it at the end of her article. In France, Camille Kouchner's "The Familia Grande: A Memoir" (available in English) has contributed to more and more people speaking more openly about incest, I think. I haven't read it, but in it, she accused her stepfather of having sexually abused her twin brother - her stepfather was a high-profile person, as you can read in the Guardian's article "High-profile French political scientist accused of sexually abusing stepson" by Kim Willsher. Apparently Olivier Duhamel, the stepfather, has admitted having sexually abused his stepson, as written by Micheal Fitzpatrick in his article "Rape, sexual violence charges dropped against French academic, media figure" for RFI. (I have quickly read these articles, please do more research, etc., if you want more accurate information, as always/with everything!) I'm sure there are other very interesting references on this topic in English too, do you know of any? I also recommend Vanessa Springora's memoir "Consent", which also caused a stir in France - TW sexual abuse of a teenage girl, it may be worth looking up for other potential TW if needed... (I use "cause a stir" in a non-pejorative way, it helped get things moving, I think.) Xxx

Saved Sociopath on my TBR list. Sounds super interesting