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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Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters 1945-70 by Martin Gayford, Martin Gayford

Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters 1945-70

Martin Gayford, Martin Gayford

340 pages • 2018

nonfiction art biography informative slow-paced
For Fukui's Sake: Two Years In Rural Japan by Sam Baldwin

For Fukui's Sake: Two Years In Rural Japan

Sam Baldwin

198 pages • digital • 2011

nonfiction memoir travel adventurous informative medium-paced
Life Class: The Memoir of an Accidental Gallerist by Chris Wadsworth

Life Class: The Memoir of an Accidental Gallerist

Chris Wadsworth

276 pages • 2016

nonfiction memoir informative medium-paced
Making It Up As I Go Along by Marian Keyes

Making It Up As I Go Along

Marian Keyes

13 hours • audio • 2016 user-added

nonfiction essays memoir funny reflective fast-paced
Write It All Down by Cathy Rentzenbrink

Write It All Down

Cathy Rentzenbrink

240 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction reference hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Amanda Montell

309 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction feminism psychology sociology informative reflective medium-paced
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

64 pages • digital • 2014

nonfiction essays feminism informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
The Way of the Fearless Writer by Beth Kempton

The Way of the Fearless Writer

Beth Kempton

8 hours, 13 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction memoir reference self help hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood

Priestdaddy: A Memoir

Patricia Lockwood

352 pages • digital • 2017

nonfiction memoir religion emotional funny reflective medium-paced
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Stephanie Foo

352 pages • digital • 2022

nonfiction memoir psychology emotional informative reflective medium-paced