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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Days in the Caucasus by Banine

Days in the Caucasus

Banine

288 pages • hardcover • 1945

nonfiction memoir adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
Stitches by David Small

Stitches

David Small

329 pages • paperback • 2009

nonfiction autobiography graphic novel memoir emotional reflective sad fast-paced
What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine by Erin Williams

What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

Erin Williams

256 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction graphic novel health emotional informative sad medium-paced
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

Amia Srinivasan

304 pages • digital • 2021

nonfiction essays feminism sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul by Scott W. Berg

The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul

Scott W. Berg

464 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped Nxivm, the Cult That Bound My Life by Sarah Edmondson

Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped Nxivm, the Cult That Bound My Life

Sarah Edmondson

248 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction memoir true crime dark informative medium-paced
Meehan's Bartender Manual by Jim Meehan

Meehan's Bartender Manual

Jim Meehan

488 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction reference informative medium-paced
Enneagram Type 5: What You Need to Know About the Investigator by Mari Silva

Enneagram Type 5: What You Need to Know About the Investigator

Mari Silva

124 pages • digital • 2021

challenging dark informative medium-paced
Plant Witchery: Discover the Sacred Language, Wisdom, and Magic of 200 Plants by Juliet Diaz

Plant Witchery: Discover the Sacred Language, Wisdom, and Magic of 200 Plants

Juliet Diaz

368 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction informative medium-paced
Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark by Cassandra Peterson

Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

Cassandra Peterson

284 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction art autobiography memoir dark mysterious medium-paced