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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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

391 pages • hardcover • 2013

nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

201 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction psychology self help informative reflective medium-paced
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Mark Manson

212 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction psychology self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Men We Need: God's Purpose for the Manly Man, the Avid Indoorsman, or Any Man Willing to Show Up by Brant Hansen, Sherri Lynn

The Men We Need: God's Purpose for the Manly Man, the Avid Indoorsman, or Any Man Willing to Show Up

Brant Hansen, Sherri Lynn

5 hours • audio • 2022 user-added

nonfiction gender religion self help informative reflective sad medium-paced
Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton by Kevin Grange

Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton

Kevin Grange

8 hours, 6 minutes • audio • 2021 user-added

nonfiction autobiography health nature adventurous informative inspiring fast-paced
Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn from Them by Liz Curtis Higgs

Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn from Them

Bad Girls of the Bible #1

Liz Curtis Higgs

9 hours, 16 minutes • audio • 1999 user-added

nonfiction religion informative inspiring slow-paced
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

Kristen Radtke

352 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction graphic novel psychology sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

480 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction history music informative reflective sad medium-paced
Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun by Jon Adams, Edmund Ramsden

Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun

Jon Adams, Edmund Ramsden

384 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction history psychology informative inspiring medium-paced
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

Naomi Klein

273 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced