Read 5 Non-Fiction Books

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46 participants (256 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

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

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Petit Manuel anarchiste individualiste by E. Armand

Petit Manuel anarchiste individualiste

E. Armand

96 pages

medium-paced
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way) by Roma Agrawal

Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)

Roma Agrawal

320 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction design history science technology informative medium-paced
Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry by Christie Wilcox

Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry

Christie Wilcox

256 pages • 2016

nonfiction nature science adventurous informative medium-paced
The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage by Tom Ireland

The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage

Tom Ireland

304 pages • hardcover

nonfiction adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett

Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain

Lisa Feldman Barrett

192 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction psychology science informative medium-paced
How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball

How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology

Philip Ball

541 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction nature science medium-paced
The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets by Thomas R. Cech

The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets

Thomas R. Cech

320 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction science informative inspiring medium-paced
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

490 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction science emotional informative medium-paced
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death by Nick Lane

Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

Nick Lane

416 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler by Thomas Hager

The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler

Thomas Hager

336 pages • 2008

nonfiction biography history science informative medium-paced