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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Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor by Anna Qu

Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

Anna Qu

5 hours, 41 minutes • audio • 2021 user-added

nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA by Liza Mundy

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

Liza Mundy

480 pages • paperback • 2023

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Sarah Wynn-Williams

393 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction business memoir politics technology dark informative medium-paced
Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

Ina Garten

320 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction business food and drink memoir inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced
The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross by Kieran Kavanaugh, Otilio Rodriguez, Juan de la Cruz

The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross

Kieran Kavanaugh, Otilio Rodriguez, Juan de la Cruz

814 pages • paperback • 1618 user-added

nonfiction poetry religion informative reflective slow-paced
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

Maxwell King

320 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction biography emotional informative reflective slow-paced
GO BIG: How To Fix Our World by Ed Miliband

GO BIG: How To Fix Our World

Ed Miliband

352 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction politics informative medium-paced
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

Nick Estes

320 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Masha Gessen

528 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction history politics challenging dark tense slow-paced
Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers by Jessica Roux

Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers

Hidden Languages #1

Jessica Roux

224 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history nature informative relaxing fast-paced