Nonfiction Nonsense

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5 participants (45 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Reading one nonfiction title a month to enrich the mind and whatnot. 

Challenge Books

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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

9 hours, 5 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
Gather Me by Glory Edim

Gather Me

Glory Edim

8 hours, 6 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction memoir emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science

Sam Kean

368 pages • digital • 2021

nonfiction history science true crime informative medium-paced
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

Malcolm Gladwell

346 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction psychology informative medium-paced
Happily Ever After & Everything In Between by Debbie Tung

Happily Ever After & Everything In Between

Debbie Tung

160 pages • digital • 2020

nonfiction comics emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced
We Will Be Jaguars by Nemonte Nenquimo

We Will Be Jaguars

Nemonte Nenquimo

13 hours, 32 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction autobiography emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brusatte

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

The Rise and Fall

Steve Brusatte

13 hours, 25 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction history nature science adventurous informative medium-paced
The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines by Cassandra Leah Quave

The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines

Cassandra Leah Quave

12 hours, 8 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction memoir nature science hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

All About Love: New Visions

Love Trilogy #1

bell hooks

267 pages • hardcover • 1999

nonfiction essays feminism gender psychology religion informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead

The Colossus of New York

Colson Whitehead

158 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction essays travel reflective fast-paced