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12 non fiction books in 12 months

tamtam3 Host

32 participants (213 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

The goal is to read twelve non fiction books by the end of the year, preferably one a month.

Challenge Books

All books added
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World by Edward Dolnick

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World

Edward Dolnick

8 hours, 50 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction history nature science informative reflective medium-paced
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II by Mari Eder

The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II

Mari Eder

10 hours, 2 minutes • audio • 2021 user-added

nonfiction biography feminism history informative inspiring medium-paced
Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Natalie Dykstra

Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Natalie Dykstra

16 hours • audio • 2024 user-added

nonfiction art biography history informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Ed Yong

9 hours, 52 minutes • audio • 2016

nonfiction health science informative medium-paced
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Kate Moore

15 hours, 53 minutes • audio • 2016

nonfiction biography history science emotional informative sad medium-paced
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists & Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them by Donovan Hohn

Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists & Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them

Donovan Hohn

15 hours, 36 minutes • audio • 2011

nonfiction science travel adventurous reflective slow-paced
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Cleopatra: A Life

Stacy Schiff

14 hours, 17 minutes • audio • 2010

nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced
Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and The Search for Indigenous Identity by Joseph V. Lee

Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and The Search for Indigenous Identity

Joseph V. Lee

256 pages • digital • 2025

nonfiction memoir challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard

A Stolen Life

Jaycee Dugard

273 pages • hardcover • 2011

nonfiction autobiography memoir true crime challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Disappearance of Rituals by Byung-Chul Han

The Disappearance of Rituals

Byung-Chul Han

110 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction philosophy informative reflective medium-paced