Best Non Fiction of 2023

Some of the best Non-Fiction (in no particular order) I read this year:

1. The Moral Case of Fossil Fuels (blogged earlier)
2. A Conflict of Visions- Thomas Sowell (blogged earlier)
3. The Untethered Soul – Michael Singer. I’ve read a lot of books on zen/spirituality/meditation/CBT. But Singer’s book still made me nod my head in agreement.
4. The Case against the Sexual Revolution – Louise Perry (blogged earlier)
5. The Blazing World – Jonathan Healey (blogged earlier)
6. Delhi Reborn – Rotem Geva (blogged earlier)
7. Volt Rush – Henry Sanderson (blogged earlier)
8. My Promised Land – Ari Shavit &
9. Letters to my Palestinian Neighbour – Yossi Klein Halevi – The war being waged right now has been nothing short of horrific. To get a sense of why Isreal is so fanatic when it comes to their land and why the Palestinians have had it so bad, check out these two works. Both the above the works are essential reading to understand the tragedy of this conflict.
10. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution – Cat Bohannon. I’ll blog on this seperately but this was a terrific read. How did women evolve to experience menopause? Why are fat stores in the legs of women larger than in men? (clue: long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids that end up as gluteofemoral fat for unborn fetuses). Worth reading and gifting. Should do a separate post on this soon.
11. The Caliph and the Imam – Toby Matthiesen. A magisterial work on the Sunni-Shia schism covering 1400 years since the birth of Islam. A blog post on Lucknow’s role in maintaining Shia influence in Iran during the 19th century is in the works…

Two other books that I’m yet to complete but will mostly get admission to this list are:

On Grand Strategy – John Lewis Gaddis and
Private Truths Public Lies – Timur Khan

PS: Best Fiction of 2023 & Best Comics of 2023