Welcome back to Book Break! We are coming up to non-fiction November, the month of the year when
everyone on booktube tries to read as many non-fiction books as possible. So we thought we
would dedicate this video to giving you 11 amazing non-fiction book recommendations for you to try in
November. And watch this space because we will be doing a few more themed non-fiction November
videos coming up throughout the next month. But if you want a general overview of where to start
with non-fiction reading, you're in the right place. So the first book I wanted to recommend was
the brilliantly named Sex Robots and Vegan Meat by Jenny Kleeman. And the contents in here are
every bit as much fun as the name. Jenny Kleeman looks in here at four main areas of human life:
birth, food, sex and death, and then looks at new innovations in technology
that could totally revolutionize these areas. So for example, she eats a vegan chicken nugget
that was grown in a lab, and she interviews a sex robot, all the while asking really deep
questions about what it means to be human, and is that all about to change? Next up,
How I Built This by Guy Raz. So Guy Raz is the presenter of the podcast How I Built This,
where he interviews successful entrepreneurs and learns all of these secrets and tips for how
they built their brand - from where they first got their ideas, to how they grew it into a successful
company. And this book is packed full of some of the best advice and insights that he learned from
the people that he's met, so maybe read this book in non-fiction November and then start a
multi-million pound company in December, who knows? And then for a book coming out in November,
so get your pre-orders in now and then you can dive in the second it comes out, is Uncomfortable
Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho, who is a former linebacker, who early
this year started his own YouTube series called Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man,
which has now racked up millions of views and is really compelling stuff. This book tackles
all sorts of questions, from "what is cultural appropriation?" to "why can't white people say the
n-word?" And really it provides all readers with a safe space to ask these questions, think about
them deeply, and then gain new perspectives to help us all join the anti-racist fight. Now this
beautiful book you have seen on Book Break before. This is Dear Reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink, which
is her story of how books have helped her through some of the hardest times of her life, and the joy
and comfort that books have brought her. So it's packed full of book recommendations and anecdotes
about how reading different books at different stages in her life has changed everything for her.
We also have a whole video that I will link to below, where we ask you guys for your stories of
the books that changed your life, and there were such lovely answers from you in there, so I will
link to that video, go give it a watch. Now this is Humans by Brandon Stanton. Brandon Stanton is
the creator of Humans of New York, which started as a blog documenting the lives of the many many
different kinds of people that Brandon Stanton met on the streets of New York, and diving really
deeply into the nuances of all their different experiences and often really moving stories. And
that then turned into a book series, and now he's gone further afield. In Humans, Brandon Stanton
has gone global. After five years of travelling the world, he has met so many people from London
to Paris to Iraq to Ukraine to Vietnam, and in this book we get to see how their individual
really moving stories all combine to tell one bigger story about the state of our world.
For some very much needed self-care in November, I recommend Inner Spark by Kristen Vikjord, who
is a clinical psychologist who also teaches about the application of yoga and mindfulness as a tool
alongside conventional therapy, and so using these two different but complementary approaches she has
packed this book full of activities and exercises to help us all find calm in a stressful world. OK,
if you love celebrity memoirs, you definitely need to get your hands on The Meaning of Mariah Carey.
Mariah Carey is an absolute icon, and as it gets slightly closer towards Christmas,
I am pretty much going to be playing her on repeat. This book is the story of her life, from
childhood to massive superstardom, through the many many ups and downs that she has been through,
and what turned her into the legend that is Mariah Carey. Look, you'll get to see everything in her
life from this to this, and you will just gain a whole new perspective on who Mariah Carey is.
Now here we have a tiny but very inspirational book, The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole
in Many Lands. Mary Seacole was a British-Jamaican nurse, whose offer to help during the Crimean war
was refused because of people's racist attitudes. But not to be deterred, she set up her own hotel
caring for wounded soldiers, and this is her amazing memoir. And then this pairs perfectly
with a more recent inspirational nurse. This is A Nurse's Story by Louise Curtis. Louise
Curtis was a newly qualified clinical practitioner working in A&E, making already very stressful and
important decisions, when the Covid 19 pandemic hit. And this book is about the terrifying
time that followed for all NHS staff. And it continues to be a very stressful time,
but this book is also full of heartwarming stories of hope, and the incredible compassion of hospital
staff. Another one coming out in November, so again get those pre-orders ready, is The Happiest
Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku. Eddie Jaku's story is absolutely heartbreaking but really inspiring.
He is now 100 years old, and back when he was a young man he considered himself a very proud
German - until in 1938, he was arrested and taken to a concentration camp, just because he was
Jewish. He lived through unimaginable horrors for the next seven years, but because he survived he
made a vow with himself to smile every day, and he now considers himself the happiest man on earth.
So this is a really inspiring story of how Eddie Jaku has gone on to live his best possible life,
and I think it's something we can all really learn from. And finally for something a little
bit different, this absolutely beautiful book is Journey by Paulo Coelho, the best-selling author
of The Alchemist. And now feels like the perfect time to start this gorgeous guided journal. It's
absolutely stunning outside and inside, it's packed with really thought-provoking questions
to help you search inside yourself, and go on this journey of self-discovery,
and it's also full of quotes from Paulo Coelho's books and speeches. It's really inspirational, and
just what a stunning object to own. So good luck everyone, if you are joining in with non-fiction
November. Even if you just read one non-fiction book this month you will still have joined in,
and I will link here to our whole playlist of other non-fiction book recommendations. And as
I said, keep your eyes open because there are more videos on this theme to come. See you next time!