Be curious - Non-Fiction Challenge 2025 - hosted by brynawel

History
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

13 hours, 55 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction history science challenging informative tense slow-paced
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

Rebecca Solnit

5 hours, 36 minutes • audio • 2004

nonfiction essays history politics hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

368 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction history race dark informative sad medium-paced
In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space by Irvin Weathersby Jr.

In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space

Irvin Weathersby Jr.

6 hours, 37 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction art history race informative reflective medium-paced
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History by Sharon McMahon

The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History

Sharon McMahon

10 hours, 14 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction history politics informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes

10 hours, 42 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction feminism politics race hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour

The Last Secret Agent

Pippa Latour

7 hours, 49 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones

No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

Jacqueline Jones

544 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction history race medium-paced
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg

476 pages • digital • 2016

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Tylko sprawiedliwość by Bryan Stevenson

Tylko sprawiedliwość

Bryan Stevenson

11 hours, 10 minutes • audio • 2014

nonfiction memoir race emotional informative inspiring medium-paced