Old Blues Chapter and Verse | The Top Ten Non-Fiction Books Tag @OldBluesChapterandVerse | Uploaded January 2020 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
This tag was created by Lukas over at Totally Pretentious. His video can be seen here:

youtube.com/watch?v=AGfnZ3zo38c&t=744s

The prompt is simple:

- List your 10 favorite non-fiction titles, excluding poetry and canonical religious texts

Books discussed herein (in alphabetical order):

- Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by Mike Davis
- Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner
- Ghost Hunters: William James and the Hunt for Scientific Proof of Life After Death by Deborah Blum
- Iron John: A Book About Men by Robert Bly
- Letter to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman
- Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor
- The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
- A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction by Ron Hansen
- The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim

A magnificent interview with Christian Wiman can be found here:

imagejournal.org/article/conversation-christian-wiman

The piece from The New Yorker on the imminent devastation headed for the Pacific Northwest can be found here:

newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one