Nonfiction Challenge

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26 participants (183 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read one nonfiction book every month. Bonus if the subject is different every month.

Challenge Books

All books added
Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig

Notes on a Nervous Planet

Matt Haig

5 hours, 14 minutes • audio • 2018

nonfiction health psychology self help informative reflective fast-paced
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

Ruha Benjamin

373 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction memoir politics race hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush

The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

Loren Grush

11 hours, 41 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction history science informative inspiring medium-paced
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water

Marc Reisner

27 hours, 58 minutes • audio • 1986 user-added

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

The Tao of Pooh

The Way, With The Enchanted Neighborhood #1

Benjamin Hoff

2 hours, 46 minutes • audio • 1982

nonfiction philosophy religion informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe by Jared Sullivan

Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe

Jared Sullivan

384 pages • hardcover • 2024 user-added

nonfiction science sociology
Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy by Matt Stoller

Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

Matt Stoller

608 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction economics history politics informative slow-paced
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson

529 pages • hardcover • 2012

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
I Want to Get Married!: One Wannabe Bride's Misadventures with Handsome Houdinis, Technicolor Grooms, Morality Police, and Other Mr. Not-Quite by Ghada Abdel Aal

I Want to Get Married!: One Wannabe Bride's Misadventures with Handsome Houdinis, Technicolor Grooms, Morality Police, and Other Mr. Not-Quite

Ghada Abdel Aal

160 pages • paperback • 2008

nonfiction short stories challenging emotional funny medium-paced
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

Jack Lowery

422 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction art history lgbtqia+ challenging emotional informative medium-paced