Feb. 16th, 2022

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So one of the things that has really been working for me in getting myself back into enjoying reading this year has been to have one fiction and one non-fiction book on the go at the same time. But because Cage of Souls is really very long, and Under a White Sky is really quite short, and because I have fallen out of the habit of accumulating a to-read list, I have run out of non-fiction.

My three favourite ever non-fictions books are probably:
1. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson - I can't read true crime that features murder or sexual violence, but I love a stupid crime. And, by god, someone knocking off the natural history museum to feed their Victorian fly fishing obsession is a dumb as fuck crime.
2. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore - Corporations are bastards who will not only kill you, but will keep you tied up in court for years while you die horribly. Then they will do it to a whole new generation of workers because they got away with it the first time. Bastards. Also, you will cry reading this.
3. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant - the story of a man eating tiger told via digressions into Russian history and Radio Free Siberia.

What are your favourites? Any subject at all.

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