Summer of Nonfiction

madampince85 Host

20 participants (60 books)

27 May 2025—19 Jul 2025

Overview

Spend time learning new things by reading any nonfiction book!

Challenge Books

All books added
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show by Bethany Joy Lenz

Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show

Bethany Joy Lenz

8 hours, 18 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 by Julie King, Joanna Faber

How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7

Julie King, Joanna Faber

432 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction self help informative medium-paced
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

14 hours, 26 minutes • audio • 2020

nonfiction history politics psychology race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Women, Race, & Class

Angela Y. Davis

271 pages • paperback • 1981

nonfiction feminism history politics race sociology challenging informative medium-paced
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

Cal Newport

7 hours • audio • 2019

nonfiction business self help technology informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Mere Christianity

C.S. Lewis

191 pages • paperback • 1942

nonfiction classics religion informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

Sarah Ogilvie

384 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction history funny informative lighthearted slow-paced
The Pocket Guide to Pantsing: How to Write a Novel Without an Outline by M.L. Ronn

The Pocket Guide to Pantsing: How to Write a Novel Without an Outline

M.L. Ronn

161 pages • digital

nonfiction
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Oliver Sacks

400 pages • hardcover • 2007

nonfiction music psychology science informative reflective slow-paced
James Warren, Empire of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters by Bill Schelly

James Warren, Empire of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters

Bill Schelly

272 pages • paperback • 2019

fiction biography horror adventurous informative lighthearted medium-paced