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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Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Melanie R. Anderson, Lisa Kröger

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

Melanie R. Anderson, Lisa Kröger

352 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction feminism history challenging dark informative fast-paced
The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films by Kelly Florence, Meg Hafdahl

The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films

Kelly Florence, Meg Hafdahl

247 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction dark mysterious medium-paced
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Rashid Khalidi

319 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
Look Back in Anger: The Miners' Strike in Nottinghamshire 30 Years on by Harry Paterson

Look Back in Anger: The Miners' Strike in Nottinghamshire 30 Years on

Harry Paterson

288 pages • 2014

nonfiction politics informative slow-paced
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

158 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction essays feminism politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

Harsha Walia

320 pages • paperback • 2021

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W. Thrasher

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

Steven W. Thrasher

352 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ race science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

Everything is Tuberculosis

John Green

198 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction health science hopeful informative reflective fast-paced
The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters

The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports

Michael Waters

362 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction gender history lgbtqia+ sports emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard Plant

The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals

Richard Plant

272 pages • paperback • 1986

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ dark informative sad slow-paced