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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The Life (and Wife) of Allen Ludden by Adam Nedeff

The Life (and Wife) of Allen Ludden

Adam Nedeff

464 pages • paperback • 2017

informative reflective medium-paced
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

Dave Grohl

10 hours, 35 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction memoir music funny inspiring reflective medium-paced
Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization by Tim Queeney

Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization

Tim Queeney

8 hours, 51 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction history reference technology travel medium-paced
El Asesinato de Garcia Lorca by Ian Gibson

El Asesinato de Garcia Lorca

Ian Gibson

603 pages • 1983

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton by Anne Sexton

The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton

628 pages • paperback • 1999

nonfiction poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

Tom Reiss

414 pages • hardcover • 2012

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative medium-paced
Gitanjali: By Rabindranath Tagore - Illustrated by Rabindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore

Gitanjali: By Rabindranath Tagore - Illustrated

Rabindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore

85 pages • paperback • 1910

fiction classics poetry reflective slow-paced
Regards from Serbia: A Cartoonist's Diary of a Crisis in Serbia by Aleksandar Zograf

Regards from Serbia: A Cartoonist's Diary of a Crisis in Serbia

Aleksandar Zograf

287 pages • 1999

nonfiction comics history emotional reflective slow-paced
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

The Best We Could Do

Thi Bui

330 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction graphic novel history memoir emotional informative reflective fast-paced
The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life by Bruce H. Wilkinson

The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life

Bruce H. Wilkinson

1 hour, 42 minutes • audio • 2000 user-added

nonfiction religion informative reflective fast-paced