Read 5 Non-Fiction Books

tayken Host

54 participants (115 books)

06 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read non fiction (you usually end up liking them!)

Challenge Books

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A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay by Octavia E. Butler

A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Octavia E. Butler

56 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction essays science fiction hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Jenny Odell

225 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

Layla F. Saad

5 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó

Breaking Through: My Life in Science

Katalin Karikó

336 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father by April Balascio

Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father

April Balascio

352 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir true crime dark emotional sad medium-paced
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou's Autobiography #1

Maya Angelou

10 hours, 12 minutes • first pub 1969 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography classics emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
« Africains, levons-nous ! » suivi de « Nous préférons la liberté » et de « Le devoir de civiliser » by Patrice Lumumba

« Africains, levons-nous ! » suivi de « Nous préférons la liberté » et de « Le devoir de civiliser »

Patrice Lumumba

54 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative reflective medium-paced
Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive History's Most Iconic Extinct Creature by Ben Mezrich

Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive History's Most Iconic Extinct Creature

Ben Mezrich

304 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous medium-paced
Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy by Roger Harms

Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy

Roger Harms

614 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction health reference informative fast-paced
The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker

The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

Gavin de Becker

432 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction psychology self help informative medium-paced