Read 5 Nonfiction Educational Books

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6 participants (13 books)

16 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Trying to read more educational nonfiction books and hopefully this challenge gives me the motivation to do so! Join me?

Challenge Books

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

16 hours, 44 minutes • audio • 2013

nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot

Mikki Kendall

267 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution by Walter Rodney

Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

Walter Rodney

336 pages • paperback • 2022

nonfiction essays history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
“Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration by Victoria Law

“Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration

Myths Made in America

Victoria Law

240 pages • paperback • 2021

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine by Nada Elia

Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine

Nada Elia

192 pages • paperback • 2023

nonfiction feminism gender history politics informative reflective sad medium-paced
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

Reni Eddo-Lodge

272 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

300 pages • paperback • 2023

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes

220 pages • digital • 2023

nonfiction feminism politics race hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

128 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Women, Race, & Class

Angela Y. Davis

271 pages • paperback • 1981

nonfiction feminism history politics race sociology challenging informative medium-paced