Read 6 Non-Fiction Books

lauraschuhmann Host

32 participants (121 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Anything that’s not considered fiction is allowed. 

Challenge Books

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Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives by Emily Amick, Sami Sage

Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives

Emily Amick, Sami Sage

237 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction politics self help informative inspiring medium-paced
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt

385 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction psychology self help technology informative reflective medium-paced
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios

The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

Maria Smilios

448 pages • digital • 2023

nonfiction biography health history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

Malcolm Gladwell

320 pages • paperback • 2024

nonfiction psychology informative medium-paced
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works by Helen Czerski

The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

Helen Czerski

14 hours, 52 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction nature science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Melissa L. Sevigny

304 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction history nature adventurous inspiring medium-paced
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem by Ntozake Shange

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem

Ntozake Shange

96 pages • hardcover • 1975

fiction play poetry challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Charles Duhigg

383 pages • paperback • 2012

nonfiction psychology self help informative inspiring medium-paced
A Burst of Light and Other Essays by Jen Keenan, Audre Lorde, Audre Lorde

A Burst of Light and Other Essays

Jen Keenan, Audre Lorde, Audre Lorde

4 hours, 28 minutes • audio • 1988

nonfiction essays challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

316 pages • digital • 2017

nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced