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Best-selling authors seem to be aware of this trend, because I keep coming across excellent but very, very short non-fiction books. Among those I can remember r
by m10n 8y ago
Best-selling authors seem to be aware of this trend, because I keep coming across excellent but very, very short non-fiction books. Among those I can remember reading and would recommend, these are published in the past <5 years and are <150 pages (or <5 hour audiobook):
- Discrimination and Disparities By: Thomas Sowell
- A Colony in a Nation: Chris Hayes
- Between the World and Me: Ta-Nehisi Coates
(three very different takes on race relations in America)
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Carlo Rovelli
- When Breath Becomes Air: Paul Kalanithi
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder
- Requiem for the American Dream: The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power: Noam Chomsky
- Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now: Jaron Lanier
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- rubinelli 8y agoThat's a big advantage of ebooks: a book that would have been padded to fit a certain length/size slot can now be the size that the subject requires, and no more.
- paulcole 8y ago> When Breath Becomes Air: Paul Kalanithi This one is closer to 250 pages and 5.5 hour audiobook. I wouldn't recommend it myself. Not much unexpected happens and it's kind of an inevitable slog to an unavoidable end. To paraphrase Love Story: What can you say about a 38 year old guy who died?