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About Nonfiction Monday

Q.How did Nonfiction Monday get started?
A.In 2007, Anastasia Suen started writing about nonfiction every Monday on her blog. One thing led to another and Nonfiction Monday became a weekly kidlitosphere round-up with a different blogger hosting the round-up each week.

We began rounding up our posts on the free WordPress.com site in December 2013 after teachers and librarians asked us to host the round-up in one place so it was easier to find.

In October 2018, the free WordPress.com site overrode the blog’s settings and began sending ads in each and every blog post email, so the group blog moved here for a clean, ad-free start. Click on the subscribe button to join us!

FYI: The December 2013-October 2018 posts archived on the free WordPress.com site will remain there.

Q. Is this blog still active?
A. No. For many years, posts shared on both Nonfiction Monday blogs came from the home blogs of different Nonfiction Monday bloggers. As new social media was created, however, people migrated to those new platforms and stopped blogging.

Eventually, the posts on this blog only came from Booklist’s Quick Tips for Schools & Libraries Newsletter columnist Anastasia Suen. After 18 years of sharing new #kidlit nonfiction books, in May 2025 the blog posts on the two Nonfiction Monday sites became archives only.

Anastasia Suen is a bookstore affiliate for Amazon and Bookshop.

Bookshop is an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. By design, we give away over 75% of our profit margin to stores, publications, authors and others who make up the thriving, inspirational culture around books!

If you click on the name of one of these bookstores in a blog post, the link will take you to their site where you can purchase the book and read it! If you buy a book after clicking on these links, they will send me a small commission.

Please note, I was an IndieBound affiliate before Bookshop launched in January 2020. In 2023, Bookshop announced that “beginning March 1, IndieBound.org, the American Bookseller Association’s consumer-facing online bookselling and marketing platform, will switch to using Bookshop.org to handle sales and fulfillment.”

If you click on an Indiebound link from an older blog post, the announcement also says: “All buy buttons on bookstores sites or affiliated sites using IndieBound links will switch to Bookshop.org links.“

Still have questions? Email me at asuen.edits at gmail dot com

~ Anastasia Suen, Nonfiction Monday Founder