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Nonfiction November, 2025 - week 3

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Week 3 (11/10-11/16) Book Pairings: This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. Maybe it's a historical novel and the real history in a nonfiction version, or a memoir and a novel, or a fiction book you’ve read and you would like recommendations for background reading. Or maybe it’s just two books you feel have a link, whatever they might be. You can be as creative as you like!


I always find this week difficult. Although I do enjoy reading a nonfiction book when I have read a historical fiction novel. I am eager to see how the author handled historical sources.


  • Many years ago I read the book series of Angelique by Sergeanne Golon. It made my fascination for Louis XIV and France history. This year I read Ludvig XIV (Louis XIV) by Andreas Marklund, but I have read several nonfiction books about the Sun King. Always fascinating reading.


  • Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris is another book I read recently. Robert Harris has turned out to be one of my favourite authors. He so well captures historical events in his fiction. The novel is about Charles I's killers and how his son, Charles II, pursued the people who signed the death warrant for his father. After having read Harris I am eager to read the historical facts and found two books that covers the lives of Edward Whalley and William Goffe, who managed to escape to America.

  • Charles I's Killers in America: The Lives and Afterlives of Edward Whalley and William Goffe by Matthew Jenkinson

  • The Great Escape of Edward Whalley and William Goffe: Smuggled Through Connecticut by Christopher Pagliuco

 
 
 
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