You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.

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. 
All books added
Lineage of Rain by Janel Pineda

Lineage of Rain

Breakbeat Poets

Janel Pineda

43 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction poetry emotional reflective medium-paced
Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners by Naomi Shihab Nye

Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners

Naomi Shihab Nye

125 pages • digital • 2018 user-added

nonfiction poetry young adult emotional reflective slow-paced
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

96 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Corazón by Yesika Salgado

Corazón

Yesika Salgado

92 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction feminism poetry emotional reflective medium-paced
Nature Poem by Tommy Pico

Nature Poem

Tommy Pico

1 hour, 19 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry emotional funny reflective fast-paced
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes

Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir

Nikki Grimes

336 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction biography memoir poetry emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Little Green: Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Chun Yu

Little Green: Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Chun Yu

128 pages • hardcover • 2005

nonfiction poetry challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

DaMaris B. Hill

192 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction feminism poetry race emotional reflective medium-paced
You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen by Carole Boston Weatherford

You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen

Carole Boston Weatherford

96 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction history middle grade poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle

Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir

Enchanted Air #1

Margarita Engle

208 pages • hardcover • 2015

nonfiction memoir middle grade poetry emotional reflective slow-paced