2024 Challenge Category #5

CHALLENGE CATEGORY #5

A NONFICTION DEEP DIVE

I'll be honest- I think this might be my favorite category in the entire challenge this year. A nonfiction deep dive refers to the trend of finding a topic and learning as much about it as you can, or, taking a "deep dive" into the topic. I've been picking up as many microhistories as my brain can handle and learning so much!

Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the hidden history of America's Cemeteries
by Greg Melville

If you're looking for a unique topic, look no further than Over My Dead Body by Greg Melville. In his detailed sophomore nonfiction book, Melville invites readers to join him on his journey into the history of American cemeteries by touring and exploring more than 15 US cemeteries, with some even located right here in New York! Melville makes it his mission to detail the origins of burial practices and uncover the truth of American cemeteries while maintaining a lively and interesting narrative unlike anything I've ever read.

Ready to dive deeper? Take a look at our Deep Dive Reads List:

Ten Tomatoes that Changes the World: A History by William Alexander

The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy Winegard

The Cigarette: A Political History by Sarah Milov

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark by Cecelia Watson

Ten Drugs: How Plants, Poweders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Thomas Hager


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