Read This Book #NonfictionNovember
This week’s Nonfiction November topic includes this prompt: “Is there a book that, if everyone read it, you think the world would be a better place?” Check out the link party hosted by Rebekah at She Seeks Nonfiction.
Here are three books that I wish everyone would read — the first two are mostly for Americans but the last one seems applicable for the entire world.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson. This is the American history that we all should have learned in school. It explains why we live where we live, an important foundation for figuring out how we move forward.
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan. In the 1920s, America nearly succumbed to fascism. Understanding how that happened, then, is helpful background for what is happening now.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. This is a short book. If we all read it, we’ll have a shared language to use as we deal with current events.