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Read 12 Nonfiction Books

annamol Host

59 participants (467 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

I’m terrible about reading nonfiction and would like to improve that by reading one a month. 

Challenge Books

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Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Orientalism

Edward W. Said

19 hours, 2 minutes • audio • 1978

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

430 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction graphic novel memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon by Joan Druett

In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon

Joan Druett

305 pages • digital • 2003 user-added

nonfiction history true crime emotional tense medium-paced
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

Samra Habib

5 hours, 14 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World by Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, John Camp, Heinrich Piening, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Oliver Primavesi, Renee Dreyfus

Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World

Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, John Camp, Heinrich Piening, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Oliver Primavesi, Renee Dreyfus

192 pages • 2017

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
I Have Not Seen Mandu: A Fractured Soul-Memoir by Swadesh Deepak

I Have Not Seen Mandu: A Fractured Soul-Memoir

Swadesh Deepak

342 pages • paperback

nonfiction autobiography biography memoir psychology
You Didn't Hear This From Me: Notes on the Art of Gossip by Kelsey McKinney

You Didn't Hear This From Me: Notes on the Art of Gossip

Kelsey McKinney

277 pages • digital • 2025

nonfiction essays sociology funny informative reflective medium-paced
Ender's Game and Philosophy: Genocide Is Child's Play by

Ender's Game and Philosophy: Genocide Is Child's Play

Popular Culture and Philosophy

253 pages • paperback

nonfiction essays philosophy adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced
The Anxious Generation: How The Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

The Anxious Generation: How The Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt

10 hours, 33 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction psychology self help technology informative reflective medium-paced
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World by William H. McRaven

Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

William H. McRaven

1 hour, 43 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction self help inspiring reflective fast-paced