Nonfiction Exploration

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17 participants (70 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

As someone that struggles to read nonfiction, I try to read at last 12 nonfiction books a year. 

So I created this challenge to do just that! 

Challenge Books

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Palestine by Joe Sacco

Palestine

Palestine #1-2

Joe Sacco

285 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction comics history politics dark informative sad medium-paced
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

592 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

Ijeoma Oluo

336 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain by Annie Murphy Paul

The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

Annie Murphy Paul

352 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science self help informative medium-paced
A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski

A Queer History of the United States

ReVisioning American History

Michael Bronski

312 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative medium-paced
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

How to Say Babylon

Safiya Sinclair

16 hours, 47 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Inside Out by Demi Moore

Inside Out

Demi Moore

272 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

272 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction politics race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood by Jessica Grose

Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

Jessica Grose

240 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The House of My Mother by Shari Franke

The House of My Mother

Shari Franke

315 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad fast-paced