Read 5 Non-Fiction Books

tayken Host

57 participants (186 books)

06 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read non fiction (you usually end up liking them!)

Challenge Books

All books added
Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune by Pamela S. Turner

Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune

Pamela S. Turner

4h 51m • 2016 • 7 editions

user-added

nonfiction biography history adventurous fast-paced
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Ben Miller, Huw Lemmey

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Ben Miller, Huw Lemmey

368 pages • 2022 • 15 editions

nonfiction biography history lgbtqia+ informative reflective medium-paced
Backstage Passes: Life on the Wild Side with David Bowie by Patrick Carr, Angela Bowie

Backstage Passes: Life on the Wild Side with David Bowie

Patrick Carr, Angela Bowie

368 pages • 1993 • 4 editions

nonfiction biography memoir music informative medium-paced
Educated by Tara Westover

Educated

Tara Westover

352 pages • 2018 • 160 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

128 pages • 2017 • 87 editions

nonfiction history politics informative reflective fast-paced
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher

Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

Guy Deutscher

310 pages • 2010 • 18 editions

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made Handel's Messiah by Charles King

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made Handel's Messiah

Charles King

352 pages • 2024 • 6 editions

nonfiction biography history music hopeful informative medium-paced
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Jason Stanley

5h 44m • 2018 • 42 editions

nonfiction history philosophy politics informative medium-paced
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler

Who's Afraid of Gender?

Judith Butler

11h 47m • 2024 • 24 editions

nonfiction feminism gender lgbtqia+ philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn

Unwell Women

Elinor Cleghorn

496 pages • 2021 • 31 editions

nonfiction feminism health history challenging informative reflective medium-paced