Feed Your Curiosity 2025

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4 participants (62 books)

01 Jan 2024—01 Jan 2025

Overview

This challenge is all about desire to learn anything you want. Just choose what feeds your soul this month (or this year) & add the book. This doesn't restrict you to nonfiction. You can learn a lot about the diversity of the human experience through the eyes of different authors. 

Challenge Books

All books added
The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France by Eric Jager

The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France

Eric Jager

243 pages • paperback • 2004

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective fast-paced
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

Emma Southon

339 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history dark funny informative medium-paced
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Andrew Delbanco

The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War

Andrew Delbanco

453 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune by Keith Thomson

Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune

Keith Thomson

400 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative tense medium-paced
Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World by Miles J. Unger

Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World

Miles J. Unger

480 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction art biography history informative reflective slow-paced
After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time by Nick Srnicek, Helen Hester

After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time

Nick Srnicek, Helen Hester

6 hours, 16 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction history philosophy hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi

512 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction essays history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

428 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction biography history challenging dark informative medium-paced
The Witch's Broom: The Craft, Lore & Magick of Broomsticks by Deborah Blake

The Witch's Broom: The Craft, Lore & Magick of Broomsticks

The Witch's Tools #1

Deborah Blake

286 pages • paperback • 2014

nonfiction reference religion informative fast-paced
Lagom: Not Too Little, Not Too Much: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life by Niki Brantmark

Lagom: Not Too Little, Not Too Much: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life

Niki Brantmark

288 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction self help lighthearted medium-paced