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12 More Books to Read This Fall

Jill

Yesterday we talked about good fiction to check out as the weather cools down; today Colorlines has a list of 12 non-fiction books to check out this fall. Courtney Martin’s latest, Do It Anyway: A New Generation of Activists is sitting on my dining room table as we speak, waiting for me to crack it open — and it will indeed be cracked as soon as I finish Freedom. I’m also happy to see Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns on the list, which I added to my mental wish list after reading this New Yorker review.

Any other non-fiction reads that Feministe fans should check out this autumn?

9 thoughts on 12 More Books to Read This Fall

  1. I’m currently reading The Possessed by Elif Batuman. I’m only a couple of chapters in but she’s got me in stitches pretty consistently – you don’t think of Russian Literature as being particularly funny, but Batuman’s odd parallels and little tangents are the best thing I’ve read in nonfiction for months.

  4. Ooh, The Skull Collectors looks really interesting. Should make a good follow-up to another eugenics/scientific-racism history book I read awhile ago, Edwin Black’s War Against the Weak.

    I also recently read Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, which I thought was absolutely mind-blowing. I’d recommend that book to anyone with an interest in mental illness or psychiatric drugs.

  6. On Women’s Voices for Change, we recently read and reviewed The Style Checklist by Lloyd Boston, it’s a great book for right now, as the message of this guidebook reflects the back-to-classics fashion this fall season. Take a look to start building a lasting fall wardrobe.

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