
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week you compile a list of ten books which coincide with that week’s theme. You can find everything you need to know about joining in here!
This week’s theme is ‘Super Long Book Titles’, and a lot of non-fiction books are guaranteed to have long titles because most of them have subtitles.
So with Nonfiction November, created and hosted by abookolive, just around the corner, today seems like the perfect time to recommend some non-fiction books!

The Creation of Anne Boleyn: In Search of the Tudors’ Most Notorious Queen by Susan Bordo: Rather than being a history of Anne Boleyn, this is a cultural history of Anne Boleyn in which Bordo looks at how people have perceived Anne throughout the centuries and I thought it was fantastic.
Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII by Karen Lindsey: Continuing with the Tudor theme, I think this book is a really good place to start if you’ve only just started learning about Henry VIII’s wives. I don’t love it – I don’t think Lindsey wrote about Jane Seymour particularly well, from what I remember – but it’s very readable.
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold: This was my favourite book of 2019 and probably my favourite non-fiction book, to be honest. Whether you’re interested in history or not I think this book is required reading.
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill: Sadly I didn’t love this one as much as I expected to, but it is a really fun book and, if you’re new to non-fiction or history, this book would be a great starting point if you’re interested in the 19th century.
A History of Magic and Witchcraft: Sabbats, Satan and Superstitions in the West by Frances Timbers: I received an eARC of this book which I’m actually reading right now loving! If you’re interested in the history of witchcraft from the ancient world to the present day, this is one for your bookshelf.

The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman’s Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson: I find religions really interesting, and I’m particularly interested in Islam because I think the media always portrays it in a negative light and, if I’m going to have an opinion on something like Islam, I’d like to educate myself first. I really enjoyed this memoir about SFF author G. Willow Wilson’s time in Egypt and how she converted to the faith.
Dear Ijeawele: A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: This book is short and sweet, but I so wish it had been around when I was a teenager and it’s so very quotable.
Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family, and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes by Emily Urquhart: When folklorist Emily Urquhart’s daughter was born with albinism, she decided to research the representation of albinism in folklore. That research resulted in this memoir which explores folklore, Urquhart’s journey as the mother of a child with albinism, and her research into her own family history. It’s brilliant.
Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale by Catherine Orenstein: This is the kind of book I would love an updated version of, because I was fascinated. Orenstein traces the roots of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale, from its beginnings in 17th century France to 1990s films, and it’s so interesting!
How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I’ve Learned from Reading Too Much by Samantha Ellis: If you like books about books, then this is one you need to check out. In this memoir playwright and author Samantha Ellis looks back at the fictional heroines throughout her life, from childhood to adulthood, and considers why they were her heroines then and if they’re still her heroines now.
Those all sound great! And they reminded me of one of my fav non-fics (which is unsurprisingly closely related to fantasy) What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank: A Fantasy Lover’s Guide to Food by Krista D. Ball
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A History of Magic and Witchcraft has caught my eye! Looking forward to your review.
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LOTS of lengthy titles here. Lots of perfect books fit in this week’s topic. Thanks so much for the visit to Finding Wonderland. 🙂
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I’ve only ever read nonfiction for school so I’m surprised by how interesting these sound! Especially Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked! Great list!
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I love reading about the Boleyns, thanks for including that title, will check it out further. I also watch a bookolive on Youtube.
Here’s my TTT if you want to have a look https://readwithstefani.com/books-with-milelong-titles-on-my-tbr/ Happy reading!
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The books about Henry VIII’s wives look good. But I love nonfiction anyway so several of them look good.
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Great choices! I’m adding a few of these to my tbr right now. 🙂
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I LOVE the Bordo book about Anne Boleyn!
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Great topic choice, I’m always meaning to try some nonfiction but I rarely do. I do have a copy of The Creation of Anne Boleynlirking somewhere though.
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Love your twist this week! Happy Reading!
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Thanks!
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This is a great twist for this week’s prompt! I’m intrigued by the Jack the Ripper book. I don’t read a ton of non-fiction, but I need to.
Thanks for the recommendations! 🙂
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It’s not a Jack the Ripper book, which is really refreshing–he gets barely any page time, so the women he murdered finally get space to breathe. 🙂
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That’s really cool and I’m definitely interested in more about the women instead of him!
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Loooving all these titles and as a nonfiction fan this is a great list since I’m always looking for more. Thanks for sharing! 😀
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I hope you enjoy any you pick up!
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I’m always saying I should read more non-fiction, so this is an amazing list! I like learning about the Tudor era so Divorced Beheaded Survived or The Creation of Anne Boleyn sound like great starting points.
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If you already have a pretty good understanding of the era I’d definitely recommend The Creation of Anne Boleyn, but it’s definitely a book that’s best enjoyed the more you know about Anne’s life. 🙂
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Nonfiction typically isn’t my thing, but you’ve picked so many interesting ones I may have to check them out! Great post 🙂
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I hope you enjoy any you do decide to pick up!
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Hope you enjoy the ones you do! 🙂
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The Five was very interesting!
My post!
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I love it. ❤
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Divorced, Beheaded, Survived sure looks good.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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It’s a great introduction to the wives!
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I need to read more non-fiction in general, so thanks for this list full of great-looking titles. I’m definitely going to be taking a closer look at these.
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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I hope you enjoy any that you pick up!
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These are great! The Five and Unmentionables are both on my to-read list — I’m looking forward to finally getting to them.
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I hope you enjoy them! The Five, in particular, is fantastic.
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I remember how strongly you recommended it! I have a copy, just need to remind myself that I enjoy non-fiction too.
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OOOH yes! Dear Ijeawele is such a great book. I love everything Adichie writes. Great twist on this weeks ttt Jess 😊💛💖
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Thanks Emer! I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve read by Adichie and still haven’t read one of her novels, which is something I need to change.
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Oh wow- everyone of these, actually, sounds really interesting! The Bolen book especially has me curious. Such a fascinating person and that era as well. Nice!
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The Creation of Anne Boleyn is SO good, I highly recommend it!
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That is good to know! I’ll have to keep an eye out for that.
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I so rarely reach for nonfiction but there are a lot of interesting options here.
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I definitely need to read more of it!
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It’s interesting how many different loooooong titles there are. LOL
Here’s my TTT.
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There are a lot out there!
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Interesting interpretation of the topic. I excluded all the additional sentences in the titles, so I had a completely different kind of list than I would have had if I tackled it your way. Must check what that might have been. Or try the next time we have a similar subject.
Anyway, thanks for visiting my list.
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Hi there Jess! I need to read more non-fiction, but all of yours make me want to get them and read them. Thanks for all these great suggestions. This week’s TTT was actually the first time that I’ve used non-fiction books in a post! So yes, non fiction authors do blabber a bit more?
Here’s my link: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Book Titles
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Hi! I hope you enjoy these if you decide to give them a try. 🙂
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Thank you! I just add some book to my to-read-list!
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I hope you enjoy them!
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Unmentionable was such a good read. Thanks for stopping by earlier.
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It was fun!
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So true about nonfiction titles! I’ve read the Anne Boleyen book and thought it was interesting!
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It’s such a good read!
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The Jack the Ripper book sounds like something I need to read. I love True Crime books. These all sounds good TBH– I need to get back into Non-Fiction at some point.
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The Five isn’t really True Crime, to be honest, it’s more about the lives of the women he murdered because so much time has already been spent obsessing over what is essentially a murderer of vulnerable women. It’s a fantastic book, though, so I highly recommend it.
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How To Be a Heroine sounds like fun!
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It’s really good!
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