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The Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do (HRCYED) - hosted by looski

Complete the Genre Challenge: Nonfiction
Read one book for each genre listed: Fantasy, Scifi, Mystery/Thriller, Horror, Historical Fiction, Romance, Nonfiction, Literary Fiction.  You may use other books to double up but you may NOT double up genres (i.e. a fantasy romance can only be used in either Romance or Fantasy, not both)
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Emotional Rescue: Essays on Love, Loss, and Life—With a Soundtrack by Ben Greenman

Emotional Rescue: Essays on Love, Loss, and Life—With a Soundtrack

Ben Greenman

260 pages • digital • 2016

nonfiction essays music emotional reflective slow-paced
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Freakonomics

Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

320 pages • paperback • 2005

nonfiction economics psychology sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate

The Mysteries of Nature Series #1

Peter Wohlleben

272 pages • hardcover • 2015

nonfiction nature informative reflective slow-paced
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke

81 pages • paperback • 1929

nonfiction classics essays poetry inspiring reflective fast-paced
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language by Arika Okrent

In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language

Arika Okrent

352 pages • hardcover • 2009

nonfiction history adventurous slow-paced
The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names by John Wright

The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names

John Wright

320 pages • hardcover • 2014

nonfiction nature science adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women's Movement by Laura Swan

The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women's Movement

Laura Swan

202 pages • hardcover • 2014

nonfiction feminism history religion informative slow-paced
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image by Leonard Shlain

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image

Leonard Shlain

464 pages • paperback • 1998

nonfiction feminism history philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
Uprooted: On the Trail of the Green Man by Nina Lyon

Uprooted: On the Trail of the Green Man

Nina Lyon

304 pages • paperback • 2016

nonfiction history nature travel dark slow-paced
Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives by Karen Shanor, Jagmeet Kanwal

Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives

Karen Shanor, Jagmeet Kanwal

263 pages • hardcover • 2009

nonfiction nature science adventurous informative slow-paced