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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The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm by Hilarie Burton Morgan

The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm

Hilarie Burton Morgan

272 pages • 2020 • 8 editions

nonfiction memoir self help informative fast-paced
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku

The Happiest Man on Earth

Eddie Jaku

200 pages • 2020 • 50 editions

nonfiction autobiography history inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Kate Moore

481 pages • 2016 • 54 editions

nonfiction biography history science emotional informative sad medium-paced
One Day She'll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel by Fauna Hodel

One Day She'll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel

Fauna Hodel

336 pages • 2008 • 5 editions

nonfiction memoir true crime dark emotional sad medium-paced
Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed by Sarah J. Robbins, Hawa Abdi

Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed

Sarah J. Robbins, Hawa Abdi

246 pages • 2013 • 8 editions

nonfiction biography memoir emotional informative inspiring slow-paced
Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History by Peter Houlahan

Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History

Peter Houlahan

398 pages • 2019 • 5 editions

nonfiction crime history true crime dark informative mysterious fast-paced
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History by Molly Caldwell Crosby

The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History

Molly Caldwell Crosby

368 pages • 2006 • 9 editions

nonfiction history science emotional informative medium-paced
All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks

All the Young Men

Ruth Coker Burks

368 pages • 2020 • 14 editions

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir politics emotional inspiring sad medium-paced
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Stephen King

320 pages • 2000 • 121 editions

nonfiction memoir reference informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

352 pages • 2010 • 25 editions

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced