Read 12 Nonfiction Books

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42 participants (268 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Trying to read more nonfiction this year! Any subject, any author, as long as it is nonfiction it counts! Have some true crime, memoirs, and professional development books in mind for myself! 

Challenge Books

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Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa by Dipo Faloyin

Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa

Dipo Faloyin

380 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction history race informative reflective medium-paced
This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan

274 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction nature psychology science informative reflective medium-paced
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

Christina Thompson

384 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Save Me The Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald

Save Me The Waltz

Zelda Fitzgerald

225 pages • paperback • 1932

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
Nuclear War : A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

Nuclear War : A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

397 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction history politics technology dark informative tense fast-paced
Clay and Bones: My Life As an FBI Forensic Artist by Lisa Bailey

Clay and Bones: My Life As an FBI Forensic Artist

Lisa Bailey

248 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction memoir true crime dark informative mysterious medium-paced
The Yin and Yang of Self-Compassion: Cultivating Kindness and Strength in the Face of Difficulty by Kristin Neff

The Yin and Yang of Self-Compassion: Cultivating Kindness and Strength in the Face of Difficulty

Kristin Neff

3 hours, 18 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction self help informative inspiring fast-paced
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them by Lucy Jones

The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them

Lucy Jones

256 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction history nature science challenging informative medium-paced
Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck

Travels with Charley in Search of America

John Steinbeck

214 pages • paperback • 1962

nonfiction classics memoir travel adventurous reflective medium-paced
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

Zora Neale Hurston

193 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction biography history race emotional informative reflective medium-paced