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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Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North by Blair Braverman

Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North

Blair Braverman

288 pages • digital • 2016

nonfiction memoir sports travel adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
Centuries of Change: Which Century Saw the Most Change and Why it Matters to Us by Ian Mortimer

Centuries of Change: Which Century Saw the Most Change and Why it Matters to Us

Ian Mortimer

403 pages • hardcover • 2014

nonfiction historical history science informative slow-paced
The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures by Louis Theroux

The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

Louis Theroux

266 pages • hardcover • 2005

nonfiction sociology travel adventurous funny medium-paced
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Robert D. Putnam

544 pages • paperback • 2000

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative slow-paced
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah

304 pages • digital • 2016

nonfiction memoir race emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced
The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui

The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War

Delphine Minoui

208 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction history emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

Brian Merchant

465 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction business history technology informative medium-paced
A Social History of the English Working Classes, 1815-1945 by Eric Hopkins

A Social History of the English Working Classes, 1815-1945

Eric Hopkins

272 pages • 1979

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall by Andrew Meier

Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall

Andrew Meier

516 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction history travel tense slow-paced
Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada by Will Ferguson

Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada

Will Ferguson

352 pages • paperback • 2004

nonfiction travel adventurous funny reflective slow-paced