Nonfiction Challenge

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27 participants (218 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read one nonfiction book every month. Bonus if the subject is different every month.

Challenge Books

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Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe by Jared Sullivan

Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe

Jared Sullivan

384 pages • hardcover • 2024 user-added

nonfiction science sociology
Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy by Matt Stoller

Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

Matt Stoller

608 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction economics history politics informative slow-paced
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson

529 pages • hardcover • 2012

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
I Want to Get Married!: One Wannabe Bride's Misadventures with Handsome Houdinis, Technicolor Grooms, Morality Police, and Other Mr. Not-Quite by Ghada Abdel Aal

I Want to Get Married!: One Wannabe Bride's Misadventures with Handsome Houdinis, Technicolor Grooms, Morality Police, and Other Mr. Not-Quite

Ghada Abdel Aal

160 pages • paperback • 2008

nonfiction short stories challenging emotional funny medium-paced
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

Jack Lowery

422 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction art history lgbtqia+ challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

Everything is Tuberculosis

John Green

198 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction health history science hopeful informative reflective fast-paced
Make, Sew and Mend: Traditional Techniques to Sustainably Maintain and Refashion Your Clothes by Bernadette Banner

Make, Sew and Mend: Traditional Techniques to Sustainably Maintain and Refashion Your Clothes

Bernadette Banner

199 pages • paperback • 2022

nonfiction design reference funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality by Renee DiResta

Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality

Renee DiResta

425 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction sociology challenging dark informative slow-paced
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker

The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

Priya Parker

304 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction business psychology informative medium-paced
What I Talk about When I Talk about Running by Haruki Murakami

What I Talk about When I Talk about Running

Haruki Murakami

179 pages • paperback • 2007

nonfiction memoir inspiring reflective medium-paced