100 non-fiction reading challenge

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Overview

I tend not to read enough non-fiction. So I have challenged myself to read 100 books. Feel free to join the challenge with me, maybe we can inspire each other with interesting titles we didn’t know existed. 

Number: 100 non-fiction books
Dates: Read from 1 January 2025 and forwards. No end date

Challenge Books

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Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines by Carol Kino

Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines

Carol Kino

432 pages • 3 editions

nonfiction biography history informative reflective medium-paced
It Won't Always Be Like This by Malaka Gharib

It Won't Always Be Like This

Malaka Gharib

224 pages • 2022 • 2 editions

nonfiction graphic novel memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream by Mychal Denzel Smith

Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream

Mychal Denzel Smith

3h 31m • 2020 • 4 editions

nonfiction essays politics informative reflective slow-paced
Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past by Sarah Parcak

Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past

Sarah Parcak

8h 39m • 2019 • 5 editions

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nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
Magically Black and Other Essays by Jerald Walker

Magically Black and Other Essays

Jerald Walker

176 pages • 2024 • 3 editions

nonfiction essays race informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr

Becoming Earth

Ferris Jabr

9h 27m • 2024 • 10 editions

nonfiction nature science hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park by Tim Cahill

Crown Journeys Series

Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park

Tim Cahill

2h 53m • 2004 • 3 editions

nonfiction nature travel adventurous informative fast-paced
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World by Edward Dolnick

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World

Edward Dolnick

8h 50m • 2024 • 4 editions

nonfiction history nature science informative reflective medium-paced
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson

Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again

Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson

8h 52m • 2025 • 9 editions

nonfiction politics informative sad fast-paced
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Ann Jacobs

176 pages • 1861 • 176 editions

nonfiction classics memoir race dark emotional sad medium-paced