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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Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring by Bassem Youssef

Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

Bassem Youssef

7 hours, 12 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction memoir politics funny informative reflective medium-paced
Palaces for the People by Eric Klinenberg

Palaces for the People

Eric Klinenberg

8 hours, 32 minutes • audio • 2018

nonfiction politics sociology informative reflective slow-paced
Ocean: Earth's Last Wilderness by David Attenborough, David Attenborough, Colin Butfield

Ocean: Earth's Last Wilderness

David Attenborough, David Attenborough, Colin Butfield

272 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction nature hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement by Horace Julian Bond

Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement

Horace Julian Bond

15 hours, 45 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction education historical history emotional informative medium-paced
Fire in the Sky: Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth by Gordon L. Dillow

Fire in the Sky: Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth

Gordon L. Dillow

288 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction science challenging informative fast-paced
Eleanor in the Village: Eleanor Roosevelt's Search for Freedom and Identity in New York's Greenwich Village by Jan Jarboe Russell

Eleanor in the Village: Eleanor Roosevelt's Search for Freedom and Identity in New York's Greenwich Village

Jan Jarboe Russell

5 hours, 8 minutes • audio • 2021 user-added

nonfiction biography history informative inspiring medium-paced
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity by Alberto Angela

Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity

Alberto Angela

448 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers by Faith G. Harper

Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

Faith G. Harper

3 hours, 39 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction psychology self help informative reflective fast-paced
Bossypants by Tina Fey

Bossypants

Tina Fey

5 hours, 31 minutes • audio • 2011

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted fast-paced
Queens of the Kingdom: The Women of Saudi Arabia Speak by Nicola Sutcliff

Queens of the Kingdom: The Women of Saudi Arabia Speak

Nicola Sutcliff

374 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction feminism challenging informative reflective slow-paced