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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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Jason Stanford, Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson

Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

Jason Stanford, Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson

413 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction history adventurous informative lighthearted medium-paced
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal Press

Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

Eyal Press

320 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

John Ganz

15 hours • audio • 2024 user-added

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West by Chris Wimmer

The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West

Chris Wimmer

320 pages • hardcover

nonfiction historical history emotional informative reflective fast-paced
Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music by Rob Sheffield

Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music

Rob Sheffield

202 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction biography music informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced
Bossypants by Tina Fey

Bossypants

Tina Fey

5 hours, 31 minutes • audio • 2011

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted fast-paced
30 days to better boundaries by Nedra Glover Tawwab

30 days to better boundaries

Nedra Glover Tawwab

2 hours, 57 minutes • audio user-added

nonfiction self help
ABC des Anarchismus by Alexander Berkman

ABC des Anarchismus

Alexander Berkman

115 pages • paperback • 1929

nonfiction philosophy politics reflective slow-paced
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson

Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again

Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson

8 hours, 52 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction politics informative sad fast-paced
The Culture of Clothes by Giovanna Alessio

The Culture of Clothes

Giovanna Alessio

80 pages • hardcover

nonfiction art childrens design education history race