Reading Reality: Why You Should Read More Non-Fiction

We all love the ability of books to take us away to a faraway place in order to imagine the fantastically fictional. More often than not when I go to do some independent reading, it will be fiction. Recently, I’ve been trying to read more and more non-fiction books and I recommend you try to do the same. Non-fiction is enjoying the reality in which we live.  Non-fiction has its own flavor. It’s like having a conversation with the writer. It enables you to think outside the box and to create your own ideas.

Here are just some of the benefits of reading non-fiction: 

• Rading non-fiction helps you understand reality. While fiction sometimes takes you to the imaginative world, non-fiction unfolds the reality so you get to know real people and their lives.

• Non-fiction enlightens you with a specific idea of subjectivity. It also gives knowledge in a specific subject which helps in learning new things.

• It provides you with facts. It gives a true picture of the surroundings.

•  Non-fiction expands the reader’s horizon. It makes you smarter to understand real-life concepts.

• It helps in expanding your thought process and allows you to form your own arguments. You then tend to re-evaluate and reassess the situations in life which make you more practical.

• Non-fiction makes you curious to know things. It helps in improving the ability to perceive situations and contradict ideas with your own intellect.

• It is a different reading experience as it provokes you to use their minds and formulate the path of understanding.

• Last but not the least, reading non-fiction makes you feel like more of a student who is ready to learn and understand reality and know the subject.

I hope that you’ll give non-fiction books a try! I recently read Eviction by Matthew Desmond and it truly opened my eyes to the current issues of affordable housing. There are so many non-fiction books out there all written on things that will totally pique your interest. 

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