Read 12 Nonfiction Books

annamol Host

60 participants (236 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

I’m terrible about reading nonfiction and would like to improve that by reading one a month. 

Challenge Books

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The Invention of Heterosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz

The Invention of Heterosexuality

Jonathan Ned Katz

304 pages • paperback • 1995

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

Antony Loewenstein

265 pages • paperback • 2023

nonfiction history politics technology challenging dark informative medium-paced
Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness by Kenneth M. Pollack

Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness

Kenneth M. Pollack

696 pages • 2018

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Orientalism

Edward W. Said

394 pages • paperback • 1978

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Assad, or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria by Sam Dagher

Assad, or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria

Sam Dagher

592 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction history politics emotional slow-paced
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

Charles C. Mann

17 hours, 46 minutes • audio • 2011

nonfiction history science adventurous slow-paced
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching by Jarvis R. Givens

Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

Jarvis R. Givens

288 pages • hardcover

nonfiction education history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965-75 by Joy Ann WIlliamson

Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965-75

Joy Ann WIlliamson

216 pages • 2003

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 by James D. Anderson

Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935

James D. Anderson

381 pages • paperback • 1986

nonfiction education history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The White Architects of Black Education: Ideology and Power in America, 1865-1954 by William H. Watkins

The White Architects of Black Education: Ideology and Power in America, 1865-1954

Teaching for Social Justice

William H. Watkins

207 pages • paperback • 2001

nonfiction education challenging informative reflective fast-paced