Read 12 Nonfiction Books

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59 participants (477 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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Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness by Kenneth M. Pollack

Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness

Kenneth M. Pollack

696 pages • 2018

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Orientalism

Edward W. Said

394 pages • paperback • 1978

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Assad, or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria by Sam Dagher

Assad, or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria

Sam Dagher

592 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction history politics emotional slow-paced
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

Charles C. Mann

17 hours, 46 minutes • audio • 2011

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching by Jarvis R. Givens

Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

Jarvis R. Givens

288 pages • hardcover

nonfiction education history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 by James D. Anderson

Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935

James D. Anderson

381 pages • paperback • 1986

nonfiction education history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The White Architects of Black Education: Ideology and Power in America, 1865-1954 by William H. Watkins

The White Architects of Black Education: Ideology and Power in America, 1865-1954

Teaching for Social Justice

William H. Watkins

207 pages • paperback • 2001

nonfiction education challenging informative reflective fast-paced
Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High by C.J. Pascoe

Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High

C.J. Pascoe

264 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction lgbtqia+ politics sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

ReVisioning American History

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

296 pages • hardcover • 2014

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America by Kabria Baumgartner

In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America

Kabria Baumgartner

320 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction history challenging informative inspiring slow-paced