Nonfiction Challenge

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27 participants (210 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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Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food by Michelle T. King

Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food

Michelle T. King

336 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction food and drink informative medium-paced
Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television by Todd Purdum

Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television

Todd Purdum

9 hours • audio • 2025

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything by Colette Shade

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything

Colette Shade

256 pages • digital • 2025

nonfiction essays history sociology emotional funny informative medium-paced
Under My Control: Words + Music | Vol. 38 by Tegan Quin

Under My Control: Words + Music | Vol. 38

Tegan Quin

missing duration info • audio

The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman by Niko Stratis

The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman

Niko Stratis

240 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction essays gender lgbtqia+ memoir music emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials Into Triumph by Ryan Holiday

The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials Into Triumph

Ryan Holiday

4 hours, 38 minutes • audio • 2014 user-added

nonfiction philosophy self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote by Bruce Vilanch

It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote

Bruce Vilanch

5 hours, 37 minutes • audio • 2025 user-added

nonfiction memoir
Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation by Jim O'Heir

Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation

Jim O'Heir

6 hours, 24 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction memoir adventurous lighthearted medium-paced
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir

My First Summer in the Sierra

John Muir

146 pages • paperback • 1911

nonfiction memoir nature travel adventurous reflective slow-paced
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Autobiography of a Yogi

Paramahansa Yogananda

518 pages • paperback • 1946

nonfiction biography philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced