100 non-fiction reading challenge

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Overview

I tend not to read enough non-fiction. So I have challenged myself to read 100 books. Feel free to join the challenge with me, maybe we can inspire each other with interesting titles we didn’t know existed. 

Number: 100 non-fiction books
Dates: Read from 1 January 2025 and forwards. No end date

Challenge Books

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

352 pages • hardcover • 2010

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

303 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction history science dark funny informative medium-paced
Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi

Wiseguy

Nicholas Pileggi

320 pages • paperback • 1985

nonfiction biography true crime dark informative fast-paced
Columbine by Dave Cullen

Columbine

Dave Cullen

417 pages • hardcover • 2009

nonfiction history true crime dark emotional informative medium-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

287 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back by Jackie Speier

Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back

Jackie Speier

240 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction biography memoir politics emotional informative inspiring slow-paced
My Story by Elizabeth Smart, Chris Stewart

My Story

Elizabeth Smart, Chris Stewart

320 pages • hardcover • 2013

nonfiction biography memoir true crime reflective fast-paced
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

272 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction biography history informative fast-paced
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.

54 pages • paperback • 1963

nonfiction classics politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Three Sisters in Black by Norman J. Zierold

Three Sisters in Black

Norman J. Zierold

192 pages • digital • 1968

nonfiction history mystery true crime dark mysterious slow-paced