Read 12 Non-Fiction Books

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34 participants (422 books)

01 Jan 2024—31 Dec 2024

Overview

The goal is to read 12 Non-Fiction books in 2024.  These can be any type of Non-Fiction.

Challenge Books

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Murder in Battle Creek: The Mysterious Death of Daisy Zick by Blaine Lee Pardoe

True Crime

Murder in Battle Creek: The Mysterious Death of Daisy Zick

Blaine Lee Pardoe

6h 1m • 2013 • 3 editions

nonfiction history true crime dark mysterious fast-paced
Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife by Ariel Sabar

Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife

Ariel Sabar

15h 32m • 2020 • 6 editions

user-added

nonfiction history religion true crime challenging informative fast-paced
Crowded Hours by Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Crowded Hours

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

355 pages • 1933 • 2 editions

nonfiction memoir informative medium-paced
The Cloudbuster Nine by Anne R. Keene

The Cloudbuster Nine

Anne R. Keene

320 pages • 2018 • 6 editions

user-added

nonfiction history sports
Roter Stern über China. Mao Tse-tung und die chinesische Revolution by Edgar Snow

Roter Stern über China. Mao Tse-tung und die chinesische Revolution

Edgar Snow

524 pages • 1937 • 12 editions

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikötter

People's Trilogy #1

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

Frank Dikötter

448 pages • 2010 • 6 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Kiss and Tell by Gene Simmons, Shannon Tweed, Julie McCarron

Kiss and Tell

Gene Simmons, Shannon Tweed, Julie McCarron

3h 47m • 2004 • 2 editions

user-added

nonfiction autobiography biography informative reflective fast-paced
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Daniel James Brown

404 pages • 2013 • 59 editions

nonfiction biography history sports emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Joe Vallese

10h 59m • 2022 • 11 editions

nonfiction essays horror lgbtqia+ emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Sabrina Strings

7h 26m • 2019 • 8 editions

nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced