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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Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History by Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly

Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

The Killing Series #8

Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly

7 hours, 24 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative fast-paced
Dankbarkeit by Oliver Sacks

Dankbarkeit

Oliver Sacks

64 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced
The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris

The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

Lindsey Fitzharris

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power by Katherine Morgan Schafler

The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

Katherine Morgan Schafler

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction psychology self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki #1

Baek Se-hee

192 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir psychology emotional reflective medium-paced
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

592 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Know My Name

Chanel Miller

368 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini

Superior: The Return of Race Science

Angela Saini

256 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history race science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

Angela Saini

224 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Erzählende Affen: Mythen, Lügen, Utopien - wie Geschichten unser Leben bestimmen by Samira El Ouassil, Friedemann Karig

Erzählende Affen: Mythen, Lügen, Utopien - wie Geschichten unser Leben bestimmen

Samira El Ouassil, Friedemann Karig

538 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction sociology informative reflective medium-paced