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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Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz

Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia

Tony Horwitz

304 pages • paperback • 1991

nonfiction history memoir travel adventurous funny reflective medium-paced
Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana by Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana

Stephanie Elizondo Griest

416 pages • paperback • 2004

nonfiction memoir travel informative inspiring medium-paced
Bears: A Brief History by Bernd Brunner, Lori Lantz

Bears: A Brief History

Bernd Brunner, Lori Lantz

272 pages • paperback • 2005

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared by Christopher Robbins

Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared

Christopher Robbins

304 pages • hardcover • 2008

nonfiction history travel funny reflective slow-paced
1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky

1968: The Year That Rocked the World

Mark Kurlansky

480 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective fast-paced
The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation Is Reviving America's Communities by Kevin C. Murphy, Stephanie Meeks

The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation Is Reviving America's Communities

Kevin C. Murphy, Stephanie Meeks

352 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey by Isabel Fonseca

Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey

Isabel Fonseca

352 pages • paperback • 1995

nonfiction history travel challenging informative slow-paced
All The Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

All The Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Patrick Bringley

240 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction art memoir informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O'Brien

Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

Keith O'Brien

352 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction biography feminism history informative inspiring slow-paced
Twelve Cries from Home: In Search of Sri Lanka's Disappeared by Minoli Salgado

Twelve Cries from Home: In Search of Sri Lanka's Disappeared

Minoli Salgado

203 pages • digital user-added

nonfiction history memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced