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 Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world by Tim Marshall

Politics of Place #5

The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world

Tim Marshall

270 pages • 2023 • 10 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer

Time Traveller's Guides #4

The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain

Ian Mortimer

432 pages • 2020 • 16 editions

nonfiction historical history informative reflective medium-paced
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Malcolm Gladwell

320 pages • 2013 • 51 editions

nonfiction business psychology informative reflective medium-paced
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

312 pages • 2004 • 25 editions

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Freakonomics

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

336 pages • 2005 • 81 editions

nonfiction economics psychology sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong

355 pages • 2022 • 30 editions

user-added

nonfiction nature science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe

What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

Jonathan Balcombe

304 pages • 2016 • 15 editions

nonfiction nature science informative reflective slow-paced
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum

The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves

Arik Kershenbaum

368 pages • 2020 • 11 editions

nonfiction nature science informative medium-paced
The Truth about Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife by Lucy Cooke

The Truth about Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife

Lucy Cooke

352 pages • 2017 • 24 editions

nonfiction nature science funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

Emma Southon

339 pages • 2020 • 16 editions

nonfiction history dark funny informative medium-paced