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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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Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi

Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

Armand Marie Leroi

9 hours, 12 minutes • audio • 2003 user-added

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced
Guerrilla Warfare: Authoritative, Revised, New Edition by Ernesto Che Guevara

Guerrilla Warfare: Authoritative, Revised, New Edition

Ernesto Che Guevara

160 pages • paperback • 2024

nonfiction history politics
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Ben Miller, Huw Lemmey

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Ben Miller, Huw Lemmey

13 hours, 31 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction biography history lgbtqia+ informative reflective medium-paced
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Mary Roach

9 hours, 17 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction history nature science funny informative medium-paced
Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships by Juno Roche

Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships

Juno Roche

167 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction lgbtqia+ emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Unfortunately, I Exist by Stephanie A. Gillis

Unfortunately, I Exist

Stephanie A. Gillis

50 pages • paperback • 2024 user-added

nonfiction memoir
Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life by Scott Chaskey

Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life

Scott Chaskey

5 hours, 37 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction essays nature informative reflective slow-paced
How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster

How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

Thomas C. Foster

366 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction education informative slow-paced
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

106 pages • paperback • 1963

nonfiction classics essays memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

The Woman in Me

Britney Spears

277 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction memoir music emotional reflective sad fast-paced