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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Memories - From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi

Memories - From Moscow to the Black Sea

Teffi

352 pages • 1931 • 11 editions

nonfiction history memoir reflective slow-paced
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

Maureen Ryan

400 pages • 2023 • 6 editions

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Thou Savage Woman: A History of Female Killers in Early Modern Britain by Blessin Adams

Thou Savage Woman: A History of Female Killers in Early Modern Britain

Blessin Adams

8h 21m • 2025 • 5 editions

nonfiction history dark informative medium-paced
This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes

This Much is True

Miriam Margolyes

15h 7m • 2021 • 15 editions

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Michael Jackson's Dangerous by Susan Fast

33 1/3 #100

Michael Jackson's Dangerous

Susan Fast

168 pages • 2012 • 1 edition

nonfiction music informative slow-paced
The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For by Harlan Coben, Gillian Flynn, Connie Archer, Kate White, Lisa Unger, Leslie Budewitz, Lee Child, Sara Paretsky

The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For

Harlan Coben, Gillian Flynn, Connie Archer, Kate White, Lisa Unger, Leslie Budewitz, Lee Child, Sara Paretsky

176 pages • 2015 • 3 editions

nonfiction mystery funny informative mysterious fast-paced
Pickleball Is Life: The Complete Guide to Feeding Your Obsession by Erin McHugh

Pickleball Is Life: The Complete Guide to Feeding Your Obsession

Erin McHugh

152 pages • 2022 • 3 editions

nonfiction sports informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced
Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Scotty Bowers

Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars

Scotty Bowers

299 pages • 2012 • 8 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
The Waco Siege: An American Tragedy by Dwayne Walker, Jack Rosewood

The Waco Siege: An American Tragedy

Dwayne Walker, Jack Rosewood

105 pages • 2015 • 3 editions

nonfiction history true crime emotional informative tense slow-paced
Across the Plains in the Donner Party by Virginia Reed Murphy

Across the Plains in the Donner Party

Virginia Reed Murphy

112 pages • 1996 • 7 editions

nonfiction biography history emotional informative reflective slow-paced