2024 Nonfiction challenge - hosted by ghosthermione

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This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps

This Will Only Hurt a Little

Busy Philipps

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir reflective medium-paced
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello

Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink

Elvis Costello

672 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir music emotional reflective medium-paced
Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan by J. Samuel Walker

Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan

J. Samuel Walker

160 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history informative tense fast-paced
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter

J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography

Humphrey Carpenter

304 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

nonfiction biography informative inspiring medium-paced
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

Greg Jenner

416 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold by Alia Trabucco Zerán

When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold

Alia Trabucco Zerán

240 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays gender history true crime dark informative reflective medium-paced
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

Maria Ressa

10 hours, 14 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird

729 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders by John Glatt

Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

John Glatt

320 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction true crime dark informative medium-paced
Wojna lekarzy Hitlera by Bartosz T. Wieliński

Wojna lekarzy Hitlera

Bartosz T. Wieliński

600 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction historical challenging dark informative medium-paced