Although I’m planning on doing SciFiMonth in November, there are also two “Nonfiction November” events happening, and I figured I’d join in with hopes of giving my nonfiction reading a shot in the arm, since it’s been fairly overwhelmed by novels this year. Here’s the fun part: there are two “Nonfiction Novembers” happening, one by BookOlive (with four ‘challenge words’ for participants to match with a book they’ll read) and then one in the bloggersphere. The blogosphere one has writing prompts, so I’ll concentrate on it and if some of my reads match Olive’s challenge words, so much the better.

The hosts for the blog-challenge are:
Liz (Adventures in reading, running and working from home),
Frances (Volatile Rune),
Heather (Based on a True Story),
Rebekah (She Seeks Nonfiction),
and Deb (Readerbuzz)

(Text shamelessly copied fromWordsandPeace.)

The prompt for Week One is:

Celebrate your year of nonfiction. What books have you read?
What were your favorites? Have you had a favorite topic?
Is there a topic you want to read about more?
What are you hoping to get out of participating in Nonfiction November?

I just checked my massive “Books: The Spreadsheet” excel sheet, which declares that Fiction is leading Nonfiction, 91 to 64, which — if you’re familiar with this blog — is weird. Usually nonfiction is leading fiction with a 70/30 split. Unsurprisingly, history accounts for a full third of all of my nonfiction read this year, with science secure in second, Society and Culture holding a tentative third, and Religion & Politics competing for fourth. Though my general goal would be to narrow the absurd gap between nonfiction and fiction, I may specifically target science so I can complete my science survey for this year: there are three categories remaining (Geology, Oceanography, and Natural History; Weather and Climate; and Thinking Scientifically). Nonfiction hasn’t produced a lot of five-star bold titles, but How to Stay Married is probably the best nonfiction title I’ve read this year. That may change once I finish Anxious Generation.