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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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Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two by Allan Bérubé

Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two

Allan Bérubé

384 pages • paperback • 1990

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ informative slow-paced
Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire by Jack Halberstam

Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire

Jack Halberstam

240 pages • 2020

nonfiction lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Ben Miller, Huw Lemmey

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Ben Miller, Huw Lemmey

368 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction biography history lgbtqia+ informative reflective medium-paced
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger, Melanie R. Anderson

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

Lisa Kröger, Melanie R. Anderson

352 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction feminism history challenging dark informative fast-paced
The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films by Kelly Florence, Meg Hafdahl

The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films

Kelly Florence, Meg Hafdahl

247 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction dark mysterious medium-paced
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Rashid Khalidi

319 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
Look Back in Anger: The Miners' Strike in Nottinghamshire 30 Years on by Harry Paterson

Look Back in Anger: The Miners' Strike in Nottinghamshire 30 Years on

Harry Paterson

288 pages • 2014

nonfiction politics informative slow-paced
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

158 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction essays feminism politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

Harsha Walia

320 pages • paperback • 2021

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W. Thrasher

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

Steven W. Thrasher

352 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ race science challenging informative reflective medium-paced