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
Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton

Beyond the Wand

Tom Felton

288 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, The West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, The West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War

Stephen R. Platt

512 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Jonathan D. Spence

God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

Jonathan D. Spence

432 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean by Katherine Pangonis

Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean

Katherine Pangonis

11 hours, 58 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Toxic by Sarah Ditum

Toxic

Sarah Ditum

352 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction feminism sociology challenging informative reflective fast-paced
Around the World in 80 Games by Marcus du Sautoy

Around the World in 80 Games

Marcus du Sautoy

12 hours, 34 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics adventurous challenging informative medium-paced
Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule by Katherine Pangonis

Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule

Katherine Pangonis

10 hours, 18 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

Laura Thompson

16 hours • first pub 2015 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

Arlie Russell Hochschild

368 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

496 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics psychology race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced