Read 5 Non-Fiction Books

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54 participants (443 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Setting an achievable goal of reading 5 non-fiction books this year to expand my knowledge!

Challenge Books

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Earth Almanac: A Year of Witnessing the Wild, from the Call of the Loon to the Journey of the Gray Whale by Ted Williams

Earth Almanac: A Year of Witnessing the Wild, from the Call of the Loon to the Journey of the Gray Whale

Ted Williams

256 pages • paperback • 2004

nonfiction essays nature informative reflective slow-paced
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

James Clear

5 hours, 35 minutes • audio • 2018

nonfiction psychology self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed

On Juneteenth

Annette Gordon-Reed

128 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction biography history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

10 hours, 47 minutes • audio • 2016

nonfiction feminism history race science informative inspiring slow-paced
Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos by Alan W. Hirshfeld

Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos

Alan W. Hirshfeld

336 pages • digital • 2001

nonfiction history science adventurous challenging informative fast-paced
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine

Last Chance to See

Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine

220 pages • hardcover • 1990

nonfiction nature science travel adventurous funny fast-paced
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

538 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction history science challenging informative tense slow-paced
Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga

Cockroaches

Scholastique Mukasonga

165 pages • paperback • 2006

nonfiction history memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq by Dunya Mikhail

The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq

Dunya Mikhail

240 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction history challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

Masaji Ishikawa

172 pages • paperback • 2000

nonfiction memoir dark emotional sad medium-paced