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 Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Jeff Guinn

544 pages • 2017 • 13 editions

nonfiction biography history religion true crime dark informative sad slow-paced
Finding Jacob Wetterling: The 27-Year Investigation from Kidnapping to Confession by Robert M. Dudley

Finding Jacob Wetterling: The 27-Year Investigation from Kidnapping to Confession

Robert M. Dudley

216 pages • 2016 • 2 editions

nonfiction true crime dark slow-paced
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin

Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

Alice Bolin

288 pages • 2018 • 8 editions

nonfiction essays feminism true crime challenging informative slow-paced
Night by Elie Wiesel

The Night Trilogy #1

Night

Elie Wiesel

141 pages • 1958 • 100 editions

nonfiction history memoir dark emotional sad medium-paced
Crowns in Conflict: The Triumph and the Tragedy of European Monarchy, 1910-1918 by Theo Aronson

Crowns in Conflict: The Triumph and the Tragedy of European Monarchy, 1910-1918

Theo Aronson

222 pages • 1986 • 3 editions

nonfiction historical history informative slow-paced
Death in Ten Minutes: The Forgotten Life of Radical Suffragette Kitty Marion by Fern Riddell

Death in Ten Minutes: The Forgotten Life of Radical Suffragette Kitty Marion

Fern Riddell

288 pages • 2018 • 6 editions

nonfiction biography feminism history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Poppy in the Wild: A Lost Dog, Fifteen Hundred Acres of Wilderness, and the Dogged Determination That Brought Her Home by Teresa J. Rhyne

Poppy in the Wild: A Lost Dog, Fifteen Hundred Acres of Wilderness, and the Dogged Determination That Brought Her Home

Teresa J. Rhyne

304 pages • 3 editions

nonfiction biography essays nature emotional fast-paced
Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile

Broken Horses

Brandi Carlile

336 pages • 2021 • 5 editions

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir music emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
All about Me: My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks

All about Me: My Remarkable Life in Show Business

Mel Brooks

456 pages • 2021 • 13 editions

nonfiction memoir funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21 by Lon Savage

Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21

Lon Savage

216 pages • 1985 • 2 editions

nonfiction history dark slow-paced