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

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Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig

Notes on a Nervous Planet

Matt Haig

5h 14m • 2018 • 54 editions

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 • 2022 • 5 editions

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

11h 41m • 2023 • 14 editions

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

27h 58m • 1986 • 11 editions

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

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The Tao of Pooh

Benjamin Hoff

2h 46m • 1982 • 58 editions

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 • 2024 • 4 editions

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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 • 2019 • 6 editions

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 • 2012 • 44 editions

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 • 2008 • 5 editions

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 • 2022 • 6 editions

nonfiction art history lgbtqia+ challenging emotional informative medium-paced