Read 5 non-fiction books in 2024

Hosted by rena_rena

22 participants, 110 books added

Starts: Monday, 01 January 2024

Ends: Tuesday, 31 December 2024

The goal is to read 5 non-fiction books in 2024. A lot of the non-fiction challenges seem to intimidating to me, I wanted something achievable. Feel free to add books any non-fiction books.

All books added
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World by Riley Black

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

Riley Black

304 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science informative medium-paced
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff

The Witches: Salem, 1692

Stacy Schiff

18 hours, 16 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

Candice Millard

12 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative medium-paced
The Devil's Teeth: a True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America's Great White Sharks by Susan Casey

The Devil's Teeth: a True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America's Great White Sharks

Susan Casey

10 hours, 50 minutes • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction nature science adventurous fast-paced
The Professor and the Madman CD: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman CD: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

7 hours, 21 minutes • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction biography history psychology reference informative slow-paced
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison by Ben Macintyre

Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

Ben Macintyre

13 hours, 25 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative medium-paced
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII by Jack El-Hai

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII

Jack El-Hai

304 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands by John Clayton

Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands

John Clayton

304 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history nature informative reflective slow-paced
The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World by David K. Randall

The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World

David K. Randall

288 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed

13 hours, 3 minutes • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction memoir travel adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced