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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
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

1141 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

84 Charing Cross Road

Helene Hanff

230 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted fast-paced
A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich

A Little History of the World

Little Histories

E.H. Gombrich

284 pages • first pub 1935 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon

Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

Chantha Nguon

11 hours, 6 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography food and drink memoir emotional inspiring sad medium-paced
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

8 hours, 41 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir sports emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

9 hours, 5 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

Elizabeth Catte

4 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology reflective slow-paced
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong

14 hours, 18 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction nature science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Talking of Joyce by Umberto Eco

Talking of Joyce

Umberto Eco

86 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

nonfiction reference
Meditations by Diskin Clay, Marcus Aurelius, Martin Hammond, Albert Wittstock

Meditations

Diskin Clay, Marcus Aurelius, Martin Hammond, Albert Wittstock

6 hours, 18 minutes • first pub 180 (editions)

nonfiction classics history philosophy informative inspiring reflective slow-paced