Man, I normally love reading nonfiction, but I’m not sure what to nominate here. Are my picks too niche? Too hard? Physical only? 
I’m looking forward to what everyone else nominates!
Title: 世界のニュースを日本人は何も知らない | L31
Subject: Politics? Some history?
Available formats: physical / ebook / audiobook
None known
Reason(s) for nominating: Been on my list, and looked like a good general pick!
Title: カメの甲羅はあばら骨 ~人体で表す動物図鑑~ | L39??
Subject: Animal Science
Available formats: physical / ebook
None known
Reason(s) for nominating: Tell me you don’t love animal facts 
I’m hesitant to formally nominate it, because I think it might be too niche, but let me know if you guys think otherwise.
Edit: gonna go ahead with it.
Title: 吉田の日々赤裸々。 『ファイナルファンタジーXIV』はなぜ新生できたのか | L36
Subject: Republished magazine column stories written by a guy having to lead building a major MMO from the ground up.
Available formats: physical / ebook
None known
Reason(s) for nominating: I love FF14, and the story behind its initial failure and eventual mega-success is such an interesting one to learn more about!
Subject: Art History, Culture
Available formats: ebook
(side note: on the amazon page for the physical copy it says “print on demand”, not sure if it means it’s possible or not)
cats
Reason(s) for nominating: Love this book! it doesn’t go too into the streams and groups that existed, or much of the characteristics of the art itself that identifies it as ukiyo-e or its symbolism, but it still gives a bit of intro to some of these things and there’s plenty of cultural references from what was drawn, cute explanations of what you see, sometimes there are also legends or characters that are known in very specific contexts and etc.
Subject: Culture
Available formats: ebook
(couldn’t find a physical copy)
the japanese myths include all kind of f-ed up things just like the greek one does and just like old religious stories in general tbh
Reason(s) for nominating: I’ve been wanting to read on about 古事記 for a ling time now and bought this version a while ago, a.k.a trying to invovle others to kick my own butt
honestly if we don’t get random super niche non-fiction then we lost the privilege to enjoy this club imo 
edit: for now I’m adding it as a nomination, if you decide to drop it let me know and I’ll remove it
Excellent, sounds like a plan. 
I’ll go back and make a real nomination post, then. If we need to kick it down the road we can.
Edit: Done
Just to let you know that I used to do a reading circle in a discord server and that was MOST popular book there
and it’s difficult so majority had no idea how to read the majority of what’s written, and it was still THAT popular
Something I was thinking about earlier that applies to a bunch of popular nonfiction picks: if they’re popular, then there’s likely multiple volumes, and we likely won’t be constrained by having to start with volume 1 like most normal book clubs, which could really come in handy.
Here’s one from my wishlist:
Title: なぜ働いていると本が読めなくなるのか | L36
Subject: History/sociology
Reason(s) for nominating: @bungakushoujo read and reviewed it and it sounded really interesting to me: “Initially, I expected a pop-science book about the brain and concentration limits based on the somewhat misleading vibe of the title and cover. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find it was more like reading a thesis that covered a very wide range of topics, starting with the history of reading and labor in modern Japan from the Meiji era onwards. It moves through time, finally examining the present-day labor market in Japan (and much of the developed world) and exploring what it means to exist as a worker and engage with knowledge and information in the current hyper-competitive global capitalist economy.”
Oooh, that one’s also been on my wishlist. Looks really interesting. 
Question for @shablul and other members of the club: how do we feel about nominating non-fiction manga (that may or may not have a set dressing story around it to contain all the educational bits)?
I read two manga about dinosaurs and liked them very much; one was more about expeditions and how to find and excavate them, in the other they had a time machine and met the dinosaurs first hand.
Oooh, that sounds really interesting; what’s it called?
Any by description it sounds like neither may be referring to ディノサン | L24??, which you may be interested in if so.
I’m all for it! I was even thinking of making my third nomination a マンガでわかる
The one with the time machine is this one 恐竜のひみつ 学研まんが, the other one I probably was not able to add to LN for obvious reasons, you see, both are about 40 years old, the person I got them from, got them as a child, I think.
I did not consider that!
that’s awesome!!
It has my vote
I don’t see why manga vs text should make any difference. I would just probably keep out textbook-like stuff - like the 四字熟語 book I have or the databases thing that got referenced here
Go ahead and number the FF14 entry if you don’t mind, @shablul.
Sure, why not.
Subject: Life Sciences
Available formats: ebook / physical book
Reason(s) for nominating: I picked this up years and years ago and figured I’d add it in case there are any other science nerds out there. 
It’s an easy read (other than all of the vocabulary necessary) but if you do remember any of your high school biology it’s quite a bit easier to read. There’re lots of different subjects in the series (I also have the physics one though I don’t think that’d make for super compelling book club reading ). I’d also be open to just about any of the other topics they have in the series.
