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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Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell

309 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction psychology sociology informative reflective medium-paced
The Rest is History Returns: An A–Z of Historical Curiosities by Dominic Sandbrook, Tom Holland

The Rest is History Returns: An A–Z of Historical Curiosities

Dominic Sandbrook, Tom Holland

448 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history funny informative lighthearted fast-paced
The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world by Tim Marshall

The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world

Politics of Place #5

Tim Marshall

270 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer

The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain

Time Traveller's Guides #4

Ian Mortimer

432 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction historical history informative reflective medium-paced
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Malcolm Gladwell

320 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction business psychology informative reflective medium-paced
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

312 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

336 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction business economics challenging informative 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

355 pages • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction nature science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe

What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

Jonathan Balcombe

304 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction nature science informative reflective slow-paced
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum

The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves

Arik Kershenbaum

368 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction nature science informative medium-paced