100 non-fiction reading challenge

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Overview

I tend not to read enough non-fiction. So I have challenged myself to read 100 books. Feel free to join the challenge with me, maybe we can inspire each other with interesting titles we didn’t know existed. 

Number: 100 non-fiction books
Dates: Read from 1 January 2025 and forwards. No end date

Challenge Books

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Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright

Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

Tom Wainwright

288 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction business economics challenging informative medium-paced
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

Malcolm Gladwell

352 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction psychology informative medium-paced
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People by Neil Shubin

The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People

Neil Shubin

240 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction science adventurous informative slow-paced
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA by Neil Shubin

Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

Neil Shubin

432 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin

Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Neil Shubin

229 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction science adventurous informative slow-paced
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein

352 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction business psychology self help reflective slow-paced
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brusatte

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

The Rise and Fall

Steve Brusatte

500 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science adventurous informative medium-paced
The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer

The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England

Time Traveller's Guides #2

Ian Mortimer

432 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction historical history informative lighthearted slow-paced
The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer

The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain

Ian Mortimer

480 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction historical history adventurous informative lighthearted
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

Jack Weatherford

317 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced