My Desastrous TBR Part 2: Nonfiction

To watch the corresponding video on YouTube, please, click on the link below:

My TBR Part 2: Nonfiction: https://youtu.be/F1d12XxQ8ww

After the disastrous pile last week, I went to the arts-and-crafts stores, bought a set of blocks and some stickers, and created a reminder that will stand on my shelves. I also tasked my daughter with preventing me from buying books, a job she takes joy in. But this won’t be sufficient. Last week, I went and bought 3 more books, which must add to the total number of books. So I will write down some ideas below, after listing my non-fiction books.

In this blog, I continue exploring my disastrous TBR shelf, but this time focusing entirely on non-fiction books. Like many readers, I keep discovering fascinating books faster than I can read them. Over time, this has created a growing To-Be-Read pile filled with subjects that reflect my curiosity and interests—from literature and theology to science, history, and even tea. In this video, I walk through the non-fiction books currently waiting on my shelves, talk about why I bought them, and which ones I hope to read soon. If you enjoy BookTube, reading life videos, and personal library tours, you might discover some new titles to add to your own TBR.

Biographies:

• Liszt
• Mozart
• Beethoven
• Bach and God
• Bach, the learned musician
• Music in the castle of heaven
• Agatha Christie
• CS Lewis
• JRR Tolkien
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Leonardo’s notebooks
• Churchill
• Churchill
• Ernest Hemingway
• Papa Hemingway
• Van Gogh
• Marie-Antoinette
• Marie-Antoinette’s diary/letters
• Duty and destiny
• Napoléon
• Paul

Letters

• Liszt and Wagner
• Liszt et d’Agoult
• JRR Tolkien’s
• Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène
• Letters of Mozart and his family

Jane Austen

• A life
• JA’s notebooks
• JA’s letters
• JA’s bookshelf
• The real Jane Austen
• JA’s wardrobe
• The worlds of JA

Entertainment:

• The Star Wars Archives
• A start wars bestiary
• Film scoring
• Treatise of Harmony by Rameau
• First nights at the opera

Art:

• Monet
• Impressionism
• Paul Cézanne
• Leonardo
• Impressionism
• In Montmartre
• The Creative Act
• Louvre
• Waterliles
• The Louvre, all the paintings

Tea:

• Tea
• The art and craft of tea
• A history of tea

Flowers and gardening

• Lavender
• The lavender companion
• Vintage roses
• Vegetables, herbs, and fruits
• The way of the wild flower
• Country commonplace book
• 1519 gardening secrets
• Grow food for free
• Tulips

History

• Ancient cities
• President’s club
• Assyria
• Persians
• Templars
• Jerusalem
• When the king took flight
• Jerusalem
• Under the black flag
• The manuscripts club

Science

• The night sky of North America

Literary Criticism

• Orientalism

Productivity

• So good they can’t ignore you
• Deep work

Theology

• Gold’s crime scene
• Dieu, la science, les preuves
• World changers
• Rediscovering Israel
• The case for faith
• The case for a creator
• Seeing the supernatural
• The atonement
• Paul and Nero
• The attributes of God, vol 2
• The life of Paul
• Rose’s Guide to the epistles
• Rose’s Guide to the Book of acts
• Bible facts
• Biblical geography
• Rose Guide to the temple

Nature: 

• Dans la peau d’un arbre
• H is for Hawk
• Leave only footprints
• A walk in the park
• The backyard bird chronicles
• Wolves 
• Aux sources du Nil
• L’émeraude des Garamantes
• Northland
• The road to little Dribblings

We come to a total of 189 books combining fiction and non-fiction. About 10% of the books I have in my collection. Maybe it’s not that bad… Are TBR proportional to the size of a library?