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The Read More Diverse Non-fiction Challenge - 2025 - hosted by amandadevoursbooks

Read a collection of non-fiction poetry or book written verse.
We get trapped thinking about non-fiction as heavy tomes meant to be analyzed. Some of the most impactful non-fiction we've read was poetry and books written in verse! Consider this a challenge to expand your definition of nonfiction. 
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Psalms of My People: A Story of Black Liberation as Told Through Hip-hop by Lenny Duncan

Psalms of My People: A Story of Black Liberation as Told Through Hip-hop

Lenny Duncan

294 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction music race religion medium-paced
Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land by N. Scott Momaday

Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

N. Scott Momaday

96 pages • 2020

nonfiction memoir nature poetry reflective slow-paced
How the Boogeyman Became a Poet by Tony Keith Jr.

How the Boogeyman Became a Poet

Tony Keith Jr.

5 hours, 3 minutes • audio • 2024 user-added

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir poetry young adult emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced
Whispers Beneath the Orange Grove by Yaffa As

Whispers Beneath the Orange Grove

Yaffa As

124 pages • paperback • 2024

nonfiction essays politics challenging hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Forest of Noise: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha

Forest of Noise: Poems

Mosab Abu Toha

80 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction memoir poetry dark emotional reflective fast-paced
Desecrated Poppies by Yaffa As

Desecrated Poppies

Yaffa As

166 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay

Julian Aguon

128 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction essays memoir poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

Carver: A Life in Poems

Marilyn Nelson

103 pages • hardcover • 1997

nonfiction biography poetry reflective medium-paced
Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood by DaMaris B. Hill

Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood

DaMaris B. Hill

192 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction poetry emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

320 pages • paperback • 1959

nonfiction classics poetry emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced