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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 2024 NF Reading Challenge thread in this folder.


The challenge will run from January 1st to December 31st 2024.
Participants may join at any time up until December 1st 2024.

Bill's Non Fiction Reader Challenge

I hope to read at least 10 non fiction books in 2024.

1. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon finished 29 Jan, 4.0 stars
2. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney, finished 23 Feb, 4.0 stars
3. Rubymusic: A Popular History of Women’s Music and Culture by Connie Kuhns, finished Apr 4, 4.0 stars
4. How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future by Maria Ressa 4.5 stars
5. When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed; Victoria Jamieson 4.5 stars
6. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi 4.0 stars
7. Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum 3.5 stars
8. How America Works... and Why it Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the US Political System by William Cooper 4.0 stars
9. Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi 4.5 stars

Completed - 8

Amanda's Non Fiction Reader Challenge

I plan to read at least 10 books.

1. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May 5 stars
2. Daring To Take Up Space by Daniell Koepke 5 stars
3. The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life by Virginia Woolf 4 stars
4. The ABCs of Yoga for Kids 4 stars
5. How to Smile 4 stars
6. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President 5 stars
7. Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust 4 stars
8. Lisa of Willesden Lane: A True Story of Music and Survival During World War II 4 stars
9. The Power of Quiet: An Inspirational Journal for Introverts 4 stars
10.On Stories and Other Essays on Literature 4 stars

2024 Non-Fiction Goal: 36

1. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant - 1/15/24 - 4* - My Review

2. Walking to Samarkand: The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia by Bernard Ollivier - 1/16/24 - 5* - My Review

3. "I Heard You Paint Houses", Updated Edition: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt - 1/19/24 - 4* - My Review

4. Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation by Richard Snow - 1/20/24 - 4* - My Review

5. House of Morgan by Ron Chernow - 1/21/24 - 4.5* - My Review

6. A Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols - 1/22/24 - 4* - My Review

7. Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson - 1/25/24 - 4* - My Review

8. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World �� and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling - 1/26/24 - 4* - My Review

9. River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon by Buddy Levy - 2/4/24 - 4* - My Review

10. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson - 2/9/24 - 5* - My Review

11. The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander - 2/11/24 - 4* - My Review

12. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman - 2/12/24 - 4* - My Review

13. Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino - 2/18/24 - 4* - My Review

14. Kings of the Yukon: One Summer Paddling Across the Far North by Adam Weymouth - 2/22/24 - 4* - My Review

15. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard - 3/5/24 - 4* - My Review

16. milk and honey by Rupi Kaur - 3/8/24 - 3* - My Review

17. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin - 3/13/24 - 4* - My Review

18. Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks - 3/16/24 - 4* - My Review

19. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination by Robert Macfarlane - 3/19/24 - 4* - My Review

20. Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack by Steve Twomey - 3/25/24 - 4* - My Review

21. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson - 4/2/24 - 5* - My Review

22. Swamp Songs: Journeys Through Marsh, Meadow and Other Wetlands by Tom Blass - 4/15/24 - 4* - My Review

23. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins - 4/16/24 - 4* - My Review

24. The Planets by Dava Sobel - 4/18/24 - 3* - My Review

25. The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard - 4/19/24 - 4* - My Review

26. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941��1942 by Ian W. Toll - 4/20/24 - 5* - My Review

27. Plastic: A Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel - 4/20/24 - 4* - My Review

28. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough - 4/22/24 - 4* - My Review

29. Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - 4/24/24 - 4* - My Review

30. Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World by Peter Moore - 5/1/24 - 3.5* - My Review

31. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara - 5/2/24 - 3* - My Review

32. Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption by Benjamin Rachlin - 5/3/24 - 4* - My Review

33. 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff - 5/7/24 - 4* - My Review

34. Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner - 5/11/24 - 4* - My Review

35. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara - 5/12/24 - 5* - My Review

36. In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado - 5/14/24 - 4* - My Review

37. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan - 5/15/24 - 4* - My Review

38. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie - 5/22/24 - 4* - My Review

39. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age by Matt Richtel - 5/25/24 - 3* - My Review

40. The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney - 5/28/24 - My Review

41. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell - 5/30/24 - 4* - My Review

42. Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales by Doreen Cunningham - 5/31/24 - 4* - My Review

43. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark - 6/8/24 - 4* - My Review

44. East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity by Philippe Sands - 6/9/24 - 4* - My Review

45. The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by Richard Rubin - 6/14/24 - 5* - My Review

46. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf - 6/17/24 - 4* - My Review

47. Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s by Cornelia Otis Skinner - 6/20/24 - 4* - My Review

48. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf - 6/22/24 - 3* - My Review

49. On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason - 6/26/24 - 4* - My Review

50. On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed - 6/28/24 - 4* - My Review

51. Winds of the Steppe: Walking the Great Silk Road from Central Asia to China by Bernard Ollivier - 6/29/24 - 4.5* - My Review

52. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron - 6/30/24 - 4* - My Review

53. A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester - 7/8/24 - 4* - My Review

54. I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel - 7/11/24 - 3* - My Review

55. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson - 7/17/24 - 4* - My Review

56. Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson - 7/20/24 - 4* - My Review

57. Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects by Amy Stewart - 2* - 7/27/24 - My Review

58. Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr - 7/30/24 - 4* - My Review

Goal completed

Pam’s Non-Fiction Reader Challenge
I plan to read at least 6 books. Completed: 9

Completed:
1. Being Henry: The Fonz �� and Beyond (audiobook) by Henry Winkler (4 stars)
2. Real Life Organizing: Clean and Clutter-Free in 15 Minutes a Day by Cassandra Aarssen (3.5 stars)
3. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney (5 stars!)
4. The White Darkness by David Grann (5 stars)
5. The Truth about Caffeine by Marina Kushner (3 stars)
6. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson (5 stars!)
7. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading by James Patterson (4 stars)
8. A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell (4 stars)
9. An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie (4.5 stars)

Currently reading:
Pessoa: A Biography by Richard Zenith

Joy, I have "Fire Weather" on tap, and "Paint" as well.

Pam, I read "Being Henry" a few weeks ago, and what's not to like about the Fonz!?

I plan to read at least 20 non-fiction books this year.
1. The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter
2. The Longest Psalm
3. Good Without God

I plan to read more than I did in 2023 which was 6 so let’s go for 7 extra and 5 planned.

1. A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story by Isabel Gillies
2.Not That Kinda Girl by Lisa Maxwell
3. The Secret Diary of a New Mum Aged 43 1/4 by Cari Rosen
4.Brung Up Proper by Jason Manford
5.The Life of Lee by Lee Evans
6. Diary of an On-call Girl: True Stories from the Front Line by E.E. Bloggs
7.Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood - The Good, The Bad, and the Scary by Jill Smokler

Also got ones already planned
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
A Funny Life by Michael McIntyre
Tough: My Journey to True Power by Terry Crews
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
The Actual One: How I Tried, and Failed, to Avoid Adulthood Forever by Isy Suttie

I will try for 10. I love Non-Fiction and always want to Read more Books.
I Finished This Year! 8/19/24~So Keep Reading More

1. Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women, Pashtana Durrani
2. Momma Cusses, Gwenna Laithland
3. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum, Antonia Hylton~Excellent Book!
4. Lived in a Tent, Fiona Williams
5. When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others, by Elissa Strauss (Very Good!)
6. Brat: An '80s Story, Andrew McCarthy
7. How to Say Babylon, Safiya Sinclair
8. The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism, Joe Conason
9. The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us, Rachelle Bergstein
10. Palace Costume: Inside Hollywood’s Best Kept Fashion Secret, Mimi Haddon

11. Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World, Casey Michel
12. The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement, Sharon McMahon
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I read 12 last year so I will shoot for the same amount.
Completed 5/12

1. How to Accidentally Settle Down With Your High School Boyfriend Completed 1/29/24
2. The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil Completed 2/9/2024
3. Walk the Blue Line: They Walk the Line between Life and Death Completed 2/20/24
4. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing Completed 5/31/2024
5. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Completed 6/30/2024
6. Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts Completed 7/14/2024
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2024 Nonfiction Challenges > 2024 Non-Fiction Reader Challenge
January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024
Completed 14/12

# 1) Tim Russert, We Heartily Knew Ye: Wonderful Stories from Friends Celebrating a Great Life READ 2/2/2024



# 2) ESCHER by Sandra Forty READ 2/2/2024



# 3) Better Homes and Gardens Kitchen and Bath Renovation Guide READ 2/2/2024



# 4) Not So Big House READ 2/2/2024



# 5) Jackie: Public, Private, Secret READ 2/8/2024



# 6) The Biggest Loser: The Weight Loss Program to Transform Your Body, Health, and Life--Adapted from NBC's Hit Show! READ 3/11/24



# 7) Better Posture Fast: How to Finally End Chronic Neck and Back Pain READ 3/29/2024



# 8) A Teacher's Guide to Our Town: Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter READ 5/15/2024



# 9) Kitchens READ 6/28/2024



# 10) Christmas In My Home and Heart READ 7/4/2024



# 11) Here's How READ 7/23/24



# 12) The Sound of Music Companion READ 7/31/24



# 13) Plan D: How to Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes READ 9/5/24



# 14) How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets READ 11/16/24

Ok. Here goes! I don't have a specific goal, but I'll hope this thread serves as a reminder to read some NF. I definitely need the nudge.

2024 Nonfiction Reads
1. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner 3/6/24
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This is a good reminder to add more nonfiction to my reading. This year I'm going to be indulging myself with celebrity memoirs. Need "lighter" fare to slip away into. Have 4 planned books, which I'll definitely read. I may add more nonfiction later in the year.

2024 NonFiction Reads

✔️1. Fox, Michael J No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality 3* 8/29
✔️2. Grant, Richard E A Pocketful of Happiness 4* 1/15
3. Spears, Britany The Woman in Me
✔️4. Winkler, Henry Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond 3* 11/2

Laura’s Spot!
OTSP Non-Fiction Challenge 2024
Target: 12 books
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1) Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 1/20/24

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Alissa's Non-Fiction Challenge 2024
Target: 20 books

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1.) The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing, read 1/12
2.) The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder, read 1/22
3.) The Beauty in Breaking, read 2/19
4.) If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood. read 2/27
5.) XOXO, Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness, read 3/5
6.) Counting the Cost, read 3/13
7.) Paris: The Memoir, read 5/30

Jim's Nonfiction Challenge 2024:

I don't have a specific goal in mind. I planned to read 12 books this year, a mix of fiction and nonfiction, but I think I'll split them evenly.

1. Cosmos (1980) by Carl Sagan (1934-96). Read January 4-15, 2024.
2. Physics of the Impossible (2008) by Michio Kaku. Read February 22-23, 2024.
3. Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot (2012) by Bill O'Reilly. Read February 23-24, 2024.
4. 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think (2016) by Brianna Wiest. Read February 23-25, 2024.
5. Washington: A Life (2010) by Ron Chernow. Read April 1-23, 2024

6. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted (2021) by Suleika Jaouad. Read April 22-24, 2024.

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Dee's Nonfiction Challenge
Books Read: 15 /15

1. Iceland's Secret: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con - 1/5/24��
2. The Art of Home: A Designer Guide to Creating an Elevated Yet Ap
proachable Home - 1/7/24��
3. Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You - 1/15/24��
4. Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene - 1/31/24��
5. The House of Hidden Meanings- 3/11/24��
6. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out - 2/27/24��
7. The Ballad of Speedball Baby: A Memoir - 2/17/24��
8. Notes on a Nervous Planet - 4/19/24��
9. Jane Austen: A Life Revealed - 5/14/24��
10. The Space That Keeps You: When Home Becomes a Love Story - 6/28/24��
11. On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - 7/4/24��
12. How to Keep House While Drowning -- 7/11/24��
13. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma - 8/10/24��
14. I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America - 10/8/24 ��
15. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey -9/21/24��

4. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

2024 Non- Fiction Reader's Reading Challenge - Lori's Challenge

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5. Oak Knoll Books Catalogue #196
6. Prague: The City and its River

7. The Forty Parables of Jesus

Ordinary People As Monks and Mystics

8. Ordinary People As Monks and Mystics

9. Narrative or the Life of Frederick Douglass
10. Living with a Learning Disability

11. The Most Important Words of Jesus

12. Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art

13. The Dancer Degas Forain Toulouse-Lautrec

14. Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Ants

NF 2024

1. Two Women Walk into a Bar *READ* 14.02.2024 ✔️
2. The Communist Manifesto*READ* 03.03.2024 ✔️
3. Girl in a Band *READ* 07.03.2024 ✔️
4. The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2024 *READ THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, FINISHED ON* 01.12.2024 ✔️
5. Two for Joy: The myriad ways to enjoy the countryside*READ* 02.12.2024 ✔️

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15. The Mormonizing of America

16. Ex-Libris 100+ Books to Read and Reread

17. Frederic Remington The Masterworks

18. The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry

I’m probably going to have to readjust my goal of 20 nonfiction books to perhaps 35, but it will probably end up being more.

19. Democracy Awakening, Notes on the State of America

20. Eat Weeds by Diego Bonetto

21. & 22. Daily Office Book Years One & Two by the Episcopal Church

22. God’s Favorites: Judaism, Christianity, and the Myth of Divine Chosenness

23. have your cake and vegan too by Kris Holechek

24. Still Life Contemporary Painters

Counting problem:
God’s Favorites is 23
24 is have your cake
25 Still Life
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26. Vegan Baking Classics

27. You Can Paint Flowers, Plants & Nature

I completed my goal of reading 6 but I have one more that I'm working on. I will likely read a couple more this year!

Pam wrote: "I completed my goal of reading 6 but I have one more that I 'm working on. I will likely read a couple more this year!"
Pam~Excellent Job Completing Your Goal and Reading More! 🎉

28. Three Hundred Years of American Painting

29. All Who Believed A Memoir of Life in the Twelve Tribes

30. Maxfield Parrish