Non fiction challenge 2025 - hosted by joyfulreading

November: Pick a book about the human body
Learn something new about your body. Pick a disease, illness, disability, body part, organ, sex, body function, or body decoration (tattoos, piercings). Just learn something about the body you live in. 
All books added
Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and You by Cory Silverberg

Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and You

Cory Silverberg

160 pages • hardcover • 2015

nonfiction childrens health adventurous lighthearted medium-paced
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer

Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

Carl Zimmer

368 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction essays history science emotional informative reflective medium-paced
All That Remains by Sue Black

All That Remains

Sue Black

368 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction memoir science true crime informative reflective medium-paced
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Amelia Nagoski, Emily Nagoski

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

Amelia Nagoski, Emily Nagoski

293 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction health self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us about Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today by Elizabeth Comen

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us about Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Elizabeth Comen

368 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction feminism health history informative reflective medium-paced
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

Elinor Cleghorn

396 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction feminism health history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

Everything is Tuberculosis

John Green

208 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction health science hopeful informative reflective fast-paced
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt

385 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction psychology informative reflective medium-paced
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ by Giulia Enders

Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ

Giulia Enders

273 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction health science funny informative lighthearted medium-paced