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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Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists by Onno Van Der Hart, Kathy Steele, Suzette Boon

Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists

Onno Van Der Hart, Kathy Steele, Suzette Boon

496 pages • 2011 • 4 editions

nonfiction psychology self help 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
The Fairbanks Four: Murder, Injustice, and the Birth of a Movement by Brian Patrick O’Donoghue

The Fairbanks Four: Murder, Injustice, and the Birth of a Movement

Brian Patrick O’Donoghue

10h 38m • 2025 • 3 editions

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nonfiction true crime challenging emotional informative slow-paced
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Jason Stanford, Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson

Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

Jason Stanford, Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson

413 pages • 2021 • 5 editions

nonfiction history adventurous informative lighthearted medium-paced
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal Press

Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

Eyal Press

320 pages • 2021 • 11 editions

nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

John Ganz

15h • 2024 • 7 editions

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nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West by Chris Wimmer

The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West

Chris Wimmer

320 pages • 4 editions

nonfiction historical history emotional informative reflective fast-paced
Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music by Rob Sheffield

Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music

Rob Sheffield

202 pages • 2024 • 8 editions

nonfiction biography music informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced
Bossypants by Tina Fey

Bossypants

Tina Fey

5h 31m • 2011 • 23 editions

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted fast-paced
30 days to better boundaries by Nedra Glover Tawwab
30 days to better boundaries
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Nedra Glover Tawwab

30 days to better boundaries

Nedra Glover Tawwab

2h 57m • 1 edition

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nonfiction self help