I appreciate fiction, but I almost always read nonfiction. It’s probably because I typically choose the books on topics I’m interested in and want to learn about. But I also love the way a great nonfiction writer can weave a narrative so strong that it’s just as much literature as it is journalism.

Some of my favorite examples of nonfiction that do this well: Soul Full of Coal Dust, Toms River, Desert Solitaire (Abbey can be problematic, though, so be warned), The Pine Barrens, This Land, and on and on.

I guess I’m kinda stuck in the environment/nature section these days!

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    1 year ago

    Fiction, I just can’t get interested in someone else’s IRL story, I had a thought a few time that a lot of biography and autobiographyies are kind of redundant because there’s so many of them it so meaning less, I just kind of assume that they all are boring and not as interesting as a fiction story.