Nonfiction Exploration

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19 participants (136 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

As someone that struggles to read nonfiction, I try to read at last 12 nonfiction books a year. 

So I created this challenge to do just that! 

Challenge Books

All books added
Just Kids by Patti Smith

Just Kids

Patti Smith

279 pages • hardcover • 2010

nonfiction art memoir music emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Hate Won't Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It by Mallory McMorrow

Hate Won't Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It

Mallory McMorrow

288 pages • digital • 2025

nonfiction memoir politics hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell

Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

Katherine Rundell

77 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction childrens education essays informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness

Sy Montgomery

262 pages • hardcover • 2015

nonfiction nature science emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

The Order of Time

Carlo Rovelli

256 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
You Never Know: A Memoir by Tom Selleck

You Never Know: A Memoir

Tom Selleck

15 hours, 27 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction memoir funny medium-paced
Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society by Elliott Currie, Martin Carnoy, Michael K. Brown

Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society

Elliott Currie, Martin Carnoy, Michael K. Brown

349 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction politics race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality

Bob Joseph

189 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf by Grant Snider

I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf

Grant Snider

119 pages • digital • 2020

nonfiction comics literary reflective medium-paced
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Civilizations Rise and Fall #1

Jared Diamond

16 hours, 20 minutes • audio • 1997

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced