Read 5 Non-Fiction Books

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39 participants (163 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Setting an achievable goal of reading 5 non-fiction books this year to expand my knowledge!

Challenge Books

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Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X. Scanlan

Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine

Padraic X. Scanlan

352 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction history challenging informative sad slow-paced
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo

Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World

Irene Vallejo

464 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction essays history informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World by Deb Chachra

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

Deb Chachra

308 pages • digital • 2023

nonfiction politics science technology informative medium-paced
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman

333 pages • digital • 2023

nonfiction technology medium-paced
Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World by Otto English

Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

Otto English

352 pages • digital • 2021

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Words

Jean-Paul Sartre

160 pages • paperback • 1963

nonfiction memoir philosophy reflective slow-paced
Twilight of the Idols: And, The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche, R.J. Hollingdale

Twilight of the Idols: And, The Anti-Christ

Friedrich Nietzsche, R.J. Hollingdale

208 pages • paperback • 1889

nonfiction classics philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced
Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction by André M. Carrington

Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction

André M. Carrington

304 pages • paperback • 2016

nonfiction race speculative fiction adventurous reflective medium-paced
Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger

Diplomacy

Henry Kissinger

912 pages • paperback • 1994

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Civilizations Rise and Fall #1

Jared Diamond

498 pages • paperback • 1997

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced