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The aim of the Nonfiction Reader Challenge is to encourage you to make nonfiction part of your reading experience during the year. Feel free to post your own 2023 NF Reading Challenge thread in this folder.


The challenge will run from January 1st to December 31st 2023.
Participants may join at any time up until December 1st 2023.

I'm always up for reading my NF/memoirs! I will list my books here.

Alissa's Nonfiction Challenge
1. Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery by Catherine Gildiner COMPLETED 1/26/23- 3 STARS
2. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear COMPLETED 2/16/23- 4 STARS
3. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry COMPLETED 3/17/23- 3.5 STARS
4. How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived by Leslie Jordan COMPLETED 3/19/23- 3 STARS
5. On the Farm by Stevie Cameron COMPLETED 3/30/23- 3.5 STARS
6.) Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him by Luis Carlos Montalván COMPLETED 4/26/23- 5 STARS
7.) When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times by Leah Sottile COMPLETED 5/23/23- 3.5 STARS
8) Beautiful Country BY Qian Julie Wang COMPLETED 6/29/23- 3 STARS
9) A Haunted Road Atlas: Sinister Stops and Dangerous Destinations, and True Crime Tales by Christine Schiefer COMPLETED 7/3/23- 3 STARS
10) Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff COMPLETED 8/16/23- 2 STARS
11) Pageboy by Elliot Page COMPLETED 9/13-23-3.5 STARS
12) Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer by Katherine Ramsland COMPLETED 10/18/23- 3.5 STARS
13) People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges by Jen Mann COMPLETED 10/27-23-3 STARS
14) Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There by Tara Schuster COMPLETED 11/7/23- 3 STARS
15) The Woman in Me by Britney Spears COMPLETED 11/10/23- 3 STARS

I am always reading Memoirs especially British Royal Family so I think I could handle this challenge but will choose to read one book per quarter. Update: I can do at least 4 books.

Lori's Nonfiction Challenge

1. January Thru March
1. Battle of Brothers: William and Harry �� The Inside Story of a Family in Tumult/Robert Lacey 386 pages, Completed 1/18/23. Rated this 3 stars.
2. Harry: A Biography of a Prince/Angela Levin 304 pages, Completed. 1/20/23. Rated this 4 stars.
3. Spare/Prince Harry, 410 pages,Completed 2/3/23. Rated this 5 stars.

2. April Thru June
1. Anthony Bourdain Remembered/CNN, 208 pages, started. Completed 4/30/23. Rated this 5 stars.
2. The Little Book of Bob: Life Lessons from a Streetwise Cat/James Bowen, 176 pages, Started and completed 4/30/2023. Rated 4 stars.
3. No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run/Tyler Wetherall, 320 pages, Completed 5/23/23, Rated 3 stars.

3. July Thru September
1. Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am/Julia Cooke. 274 pages. Completed 7/13/23. Rated 3 stars.
2. Gender Queer/Maia Kobabe. 240 pages. Completed 9/11/23. Rated 3 stars.

4. October Thru December.
1. The Gift of Love: One Woman’s Journey to Save a Life/Amy Clipston. 224 pages. Completed 10/3/23. Rated 5 stars.
2. A Child Called "It"/Dave Pelzer. 206 pages. Completed 10/24/23. Rated 5 stars.
3. The Diary of a Young Girl/Anne Frank. 426 pages. Completed 10/20/23/Rated 3 stars.
4. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic/Alison Bechdel. 232 pages. Completed 10/30/23. Rated 3 stars.
5. Unbelievable/T. Christian Miller
304 pages. Completed 11/22/23. Rated 4 stars.
6. Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong/Jen Yates. 208 pages. Completed 12/3/23. Rated 3 stars.
7. Crying in H Mart/MichelleZauner. 256 pages. Completed 12/30/23. Rated 2 stars

Oooh, I love a good challenge. I think I will try this - as everyone here knows, I read primarily sports. In addition to my usual fare, I will try to read at least one NF book per month that has nothing to do with sports and is not a biography or memoir (the genre I read most outside of sports). Just one per month - I think I can handle that.

Lance’s non-sports, non- biography NF reads, 2023

1. January non-sports NF - Cabin Fever: The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic
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Lance wrote: "Oooh, I love a good challenge. I think I will try this - as everyone here knows, I read primarily sports. In addition to my usual fare, I will try to read at least one NF book per month that has no..."

I love reading sports books too. Growing up in England I grew up on Soccer so right now I am living my dream with the World Cup going on. I tend to read biographies and memoirs but not of politicians or movie people, actors, etc. I figured I would go for one a quarter and if I can fit two in all the better.

Of course most of the memoirs or bios I read are athletes, but I will dabble into musicians, politicians, etc. For this particular challenge, I’ll stay away from them as well.

I haven't worked out what I'm planning on reading, but will post my choices here later:
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Once again, NF was the category with my most read books in 2022 (23 books). I'm not sure I want to continue this trend in 2023, but I still hope to read quite a few. I'll update this as I go.

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I will read 10 or more NF books.

1.The Book of Ichigo Ichie: The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment, the Japanese Way
2.Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare
3.I Hope This Helps
4.A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles
5.Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey
6.You Can Do All Things: Drawings, Affirmations and Mindfulness to Help With Anxiety and Depression (Book Gift for Women)
7.The Art of Virtue: Benjamin Franklin's Formula for Successful Living
8.You're Smart, Strong and You Got This: Drawings, Affirmations, and Comfort to Help with Anxiety and Depression
9.William-Adolphe Bouguereau: Masterpieces - 250 Academic Paintings - Gallery Series
10.The Portable Bouguereau
11.It’s Your Weirdness that Makes You Wonderful
12.Reading in Bed: Personal Essays on the Glories of Reading
13.How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing
14.How Literature Saved My Life

I hope to read at least 10 books.

1. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beatonl 430 pages, started 8 Jan, finished 11 Jan, 4.0 stars
2. Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir by Martha Wainwright 256 pages, started 11 Jan, finished 16 Jan, 4.0 stars
3. March: Book Three by John Lewis 246 pages, started 6 Feb, finished 7 Feb, 5.0 stars
4. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America by David Hajdu 434 pages, finished 28 Oct, 4.0 stars
5. Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Philip K. Dick finished 20 Nov, 3.5 stars
6. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley 259 pages, finished 27 Jun, 4.5 stars
7. Chasing The Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World by Samantha Power 622 pages,
8. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson 368 pages,
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Completed: 6

One of my goals is to read non-fiction books written by or about former US Presidents. I want to read 8 this year.

1. A Promised Land
2.Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
3.Lincoln
4.The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
5.An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
6.Decision Points
7.American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
8.American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Bonus: Founding Mothers

OTSP Non-fiction Challenge - 1/1/23 to 12/31/23
completed: 15/15 - done

1. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story - 1/7/23 ��
2. Things to Look Forward To: 52 Large and Small Joys for Today and Every Day - 1/1/23��
3. They Called Us Enemy - 1/3/23 ��
4. Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women - 1/14/23��
5. I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever - 2/20/23 ��
6. Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen - 6/10/23��
7. The Book of Delights: Essays - 3/1/23��
8. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations - 3/6/23��
9. Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff: Declutter, Downsize, and Move Forward with Your Life - 2/5/23��
10. Decorating a Room of One's Own: Conversations on Interior Design with Miss Havisham, Jane Eyre, Victor Frankenstein, Elizabeth Bennet, Ishmael, and Other Literary Notables - 1/28/23��
11. Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments - 5/6/23 ��
12. I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan - 6/14/23��
13. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre - 6/2/23��
14. Mean Mothers: Overcoming the Legacy of Hurt - 7/11/23��
15.A Room of One’s Own - 9/27/23 ��

I only read 9 NF books in 2022 so I am going to shoot for 7 in 2023.

1. Night Completed 1/12/2023, 5 Stars
2. Milk and Honey Completed 1/13/2023, 4 stars
3. The Year of Magical Thinking Completed 1/27/2023 5 stars
4. Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember 2/17/2023, 3 stars
5. Swerve or Die: Life at My Speed in the First Family of NASCAR Racing 3/18/2023 4 stars
6. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism 03/31/2023, 4 stars
7. How I Saved the World, 04/12/2023, 4 stars
8. The Art of War, 4/19/2023, 4 stars
9. Books for Living, 4/26/2023, 4 stars
10. It Will All Work Out: The Freedom of Letting Go 8/16/2023, 4 stars
11. Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics 9/5/2023 4 stars
12. Keith Urban 9/30/2023 4 stars

On The Same Page

2023 Nonfiction Challenge

January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023

Completed 0/12

1) Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage that Redrew the Map of the New World

I hope to do at least 12

1.If It Was Easy, They'd Call the Whole Damn Thing a Honeymoon: Living with and Loving the TV-Addicted, Sex-Obsessed, Not-So-Handy Man You Married
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2023 Nonfiction Reader Challenge
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023

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My 2023 Non Fiction Reads:

1. Women Don't Owe You Pretty *READ* 01.01.2023 ✔️
2. New York Vertical Portable Format Edition *READ* 14.01.2023 ✔️
3. Manifest *READ* 18.02.2023 ✔️
4. Unlonely: How to Feel Less Isolated, Make Connections and Live a Life You Love *READ* 24.02.2023 ✔️
5. Rock Dreams*READ* 02.04.2023 ✔️
6. Manson in His Own Words *READ* 10.04.2023 ✔️
7. Jennifer Juniper: A Journey Beyond the Muse *READ* 12.04.2023 ✔️
8. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper *READ* 15.04.2023 ✔️
9. 20th Century Dreams *READ* 25.04.2023 ✔️
10. Memory Road Trip: A Retrospective Travel Journey *READ* 24.07.2023 ✔️
11. Devotion (Half NF) *READ* 27.07.2023 ✔️
12. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything *READ* 16.08.2023 ✔️
13. The Bookshop Book *READ* 19.09.2023 ✔️



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Kristine’s 2023 Non-Fiction Challenge
January 1-December 31,2023

I love reading Non-Fiction and Would Like to Try to Get More Books In. I will pick 15 Non-Fiction Books.

1. The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil, Tina Brown
2. Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, Portia de Rossi
3. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Matthew Perry
4. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times, Michelle Obama
5. Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy, Whitney Goodman
6. The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery, David Poses
7. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer + 🎧, Michelle McNamara
8. Cinema of the 70s: 101 Iconic Movies, John H. Foote
9. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, Liz Cheney
10. The Woman in Me, Britany Spears
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I am going to aim for 10 non-fiction books in 2023.

1) Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben R. Rich
2) The Answer Is...: Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek
3) I Have Nothing to Hide: And 20 Other Myths About Surveillance and Privacy
by Heidi Boghosian
4) Gory Details: Adventures From the Dark Side of Science by Erika Engelhaupt
5) Travels in Alaska by John Muir
6) On The Map by Simon Garfield
7) 12 Ordinary Men by John MacArthur
8) No Picnic on Mt. Kenya by Felice Benuzzi
9) The Forgotten 500 by Gregory Freeman
10) Agent Sonya by Ben MacIntyre

11) Brazilian Adventure by Peter Fleming
12) Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
13) The Last Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky
14) Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
15) Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman
16) In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
17) The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer
18) Where You'll Find Me by Ty Gagne
19) When to Rob a Bank by Steven D. Levitt

I read 4 non-fiction books in 2022. Let's see if I can increase that this year.

1: The Twins of Auschwitz54]
2: Spare
3: Battle of Brothers: William and Harry–The Inside Story of a Family in Tumult
4: Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown
5: Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror
6: Our King: Charles III: The Man and the Monarch Revealed - Commemorate the historic coronation of the new King
7: The Collapse of Yugoslavia: 1991��99
8: Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II

Will there be a 2024 Nonfiction Reader Challenge?

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