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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Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire by Bettany Hughes

Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire

Bettany Hughes

198 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

Anarchism and Other Essays

Emma Goldman

304 pages • paperback • 1910

nonfiction essays feminism philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

534 pages • hardcover • 2011

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles

Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World

Rosalind Miles

352 pages • paperback • 1988

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative slow-paced
Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War by Ronald Fraser

Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War

Ronald Fraser

628 pages • 1979

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age by Robert N. Bellah

Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

Robert N. Bellah

776 pages • hardcover • 2011

nonfiction history religion science informative reflective slow-paced
Defying Male Civilization: Women in the Spanish Civil War by Mary Nash

Defying Male Civilization: Women in the Spanish Civil War

Mary Nash

261 pages • 1995

nonfiction feminism history politics informative reflective medium-paced
Malevolent Neutrality: The United States, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War by Douglas Little

Malevolent Neutrality: The United States, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War

Douglas Little

288 pages • hardcover • 1985

nonfiction history politics
Beyond Death and Exile: The Spanish Republicans in France, 1939-1955 by Louis Stein

Beyond Death and Exile: The Spanish Republicans in France, 1939-1955

Louis Stein

314 pages • hardcover • 1979

nonfiction history emotional informative medium-paced
Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women by Martha Ackelsberg

Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women

Martha Ackelsberg

230 pages • paperback • 1991

nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced