2024 Dewey Decimal Reading Challenge - hosted by jenabest

Class 300: Social Sciences
Class 300 includes: 300 Social Sciences, Sociology, & Anthropology; 310 Statistics; 320 Political Science; 330 Economics; 340 Law; 350 Public Administration & Military Science; 360 Social Problems & Social Services; 370 Education; 380 Commerce, Communications, & Transportation; 390 Customs, Etiquette, & Folklore
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

11 hours, 18 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction business history politics challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Alice Wong

8 hours, 2 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

400 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus: The Mathematics of Christmas by Thomas Oléron Evans, Hannah Fry

The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus: The Mathematics of Christmas

Thomas Oléron Evans, Hannah Fry

160 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics science informative lighthearted slow-paced
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade by Ann Fessler

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade

Ann Fessler

12 hours, 38 minutes • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history emotional reflective slow-paced
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

Nathan Thrall

6 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history politics emotional informative sad medium-paced
Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold by Stephen Fry

Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold

Stephen Fry's Greek Myths #3

Stephen Fry

413 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction history religion dark informative reflective medium-paced
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Henry Grabar

10 hours, 53 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop by Jesse Stommel

Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop

Jesse Stommel

171 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction education
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

287 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced