Expanding Horizons: The Nonfiction Challenge

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9 participants (61 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Step out of your comfort zone and dive into the world of nonfiction with the Expanding Horizons: The 15 Nonfiction Challenge! This challenge is designed to inspire exploring new ideas, gaining fresh perspectives, and growing intellectually by reading a minimum of 15 nonfiction books in a year.

Whether you’re drawn to memoirs, self-help, science, history, or any other nonfiction genre, this challenge encourages you to broaden your horizons and discover the real-world stories and insights that can shape your life.

Set your own pace, track your progress, and let each book bring you one step closer to a year of growth and learning. Happy reading!

Challenge Books

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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

Sarah Krasnostein

304 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction biography crime memoir psychology sociology emotional medium-paced
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury

Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

Laney Salisbury

327 pages • hardcover • 2009

nonfiction art history true crime dark informative medium-paced
Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians by Herman Lehmann

Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians

Herman Lehmann

5 hours, 16 minutes • audio • 1899 user-added

nonfiction history memoir adventurous challenging informative medium-paced
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery

Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

Ben Montgomery

7 hours, 54 minutes • audio • 2014

nonfiction biography history travel emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Tchaikovsky's Empire: A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer by Simon Morrison

Tchaikovsky's Empire: A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer

Simon Morrison

384 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction biography
The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story by Nechama Birnbaum

The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story

Nechama Birnbaum

280 pages • digital • 2021 user-added

nonfiction biography emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Susannah Cahalan

276 pages • hardcover • 2012

nonfiction health memoir psychology emotional informative medium-paced
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast

Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World

Mark Pendergrast

450 pages • paperback • 1999

nonfiction food and drink history informative medium-paced
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery by Elaine McArdle, Barbara K. Lipska

The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery

Elaine McArdle, Barbara K. Lipska

208 pages • digital • 2018

nonfiction memoir psychology science emotional fast-paced
Fires in the Dark: Healing the Mind, the Oldest Branch of Medicine by Kay Redfield Jamison

Fires in the Dark: Healing the Mind, the Oldest Branch of Medicine

Kay Redfield Jamison

336 pages • digital • 2023

nonfiction psychology science informative reflective medium-paced