Additional Group Read - Non-Fiction

[Louise, Group Founder]

Given the interest there has been in May's Non-Fiction nomination/voting process, I feel confident enough to start implementing something that was always a long-term goal when I started this group: a regular Non-Fiction read.

In addition to our general/themed read each month, we will be introducing a bimonthly Non-Fiction group read, running in between our 'Read Around the World' months. The aim is to get the first one up and running in July.

Like our main group read, I will pick a theme each time so that we read widely from a variety of genres, and then let people nominate anything they think fits within that theme.

Here are a few of the ideas I've come up with, but feel free to suggest more below:

History
Biography
Memoir/Autobiography
Science
Natural History
Politics
Feminism/Gender Studies
Arts & Literature/Cultural Criticism
Psychology
Spirituality/Religion
Anthropology
True Crime

[Carol]

Music/performance arts

[Tamara]

Psychology
Spirituality/Religion

[Shomeret]

Anthropology
Archaeology

[Louise, Group Founder]

I'm probably not going to get too specific with the genres. Given it's only 6 reads a year I want to keep the subjects relatively broad so we get more of a range of nominations to pick from.

So if I don't add your suggestion to the list, please don't be offended, it's not that I don't think the subject interesting it's just I think it already fits quite happily into one of the larger themes already identified (eg. Music/Performance Arts fall under the 'Arts' part of Arts & Literature and I'd be happy to accept Archaeology nominations in History month)

[Karin]

Philosophy

[Kairia]

I'm not sure what genre this would fall under but crime? Books about specific criminals or criminal events?

[Louise, Group Founder]

True Crime? I'll add it to the list