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

All books added
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

10 hours, 47 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history race science informative inspiring slow-paced
The Little Book of Lykke: Secrets of the World’s Happiest People by Meik Wiking

The Little Book of Lykke: Secrets of the World’s Happiest People

Meik Wiking

288 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction health psychology self help reflective medium-paced
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Jenny Odell

8 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging informative reflective slow-paced
“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon

“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

Aubrey Gordon

205 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction essays health challenging informative medium-paced
Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy by Cait West

Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

Cait West

264 pages • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

nonfiction memoir
Sel : Eksplorasi Kedokteran dan Manusia Baru by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Sel : Eksplorasi Kedokteran dan Manusia Baru

Siddhartha Mukherjee

550 pages • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction science emotional informative medium-paced
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win by Jessica Valenti

Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

Jessica Valenti

5 hours, 12 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction gender sociology challenging informative medium-paced
The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain by Alan Gordon, Alon Ziv

The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain

Alan Gordon, Alon Ziv

224 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health informative medium-paced
Heal Your Headache by David Buchholz

Heal Your Headache

David Buchholz

246 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction health self help informative slow-paced
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Peter Godfrey-Smith

272 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science informative reflective medium-paced