Read 12 nonfiction books in 2024

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13 participants (143 books)

01 Jan 2024—31 Dec 2024

Overview

What is says on the tin. Just read 12 nonfiction works in a  year, it can be pop science, memoirs, whatever your heart desires.

Challenge Books

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Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

Still Life with Bones

Alexa Hagerty

316 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir true crime challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Amanda Montell

309 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction feminism sociology informative reflective medium-paced
Die Entscheidung: Kapitalismus vs. Klima by Naomi Klein

Die Entscheidung: Kapitalismus vs. Klima

Naomi Klein

704 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction economics politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism by Aja Barber

Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism

Aja Barber

286 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

Raja Shehadeh

160 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir politics emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between by Amrou Al-Kadhi

Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between

Amrou Al-Kadhi

304 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide by Nice Leng'ete

The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide

Nice Leng'ete

240 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water by Amorina Kingdon

Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

Amorina Kingdon

328 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction nature science informative reflective medium-paced
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule

Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

Ty Seidule

304 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir informative reflective slow-paced
The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy Seal by Eric Greitens

The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy Seal

Eric Greitens

missing duration info • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography inspiring slow-paced