The aim of the Nonfiction Reader Challenge is to encourage you to make nonfiction part of your reading experience during the year. It’s hosted by Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out, please click on the link to find out more and to sign up!

HOW IT WORKS

You can select, read and review a book from the categories listed below during the year for a total of up to 12 books; OR select, read and review any nonfiction book. A book may be in print, electronic or audio format.

Choose a goal:
Nonfiction Nipper: Read & review 3 books, from any 3 listed categories
Nonfiction Nibbler: Read & review 6 books, from any 6 listed categories
Nonfiction Nosher: Read & review 12 books, one for each category
Nonfiction Grazer: Read & review any nonfiction book. Set your own goal, or none at all, just share the nonfiction you read through the year.

Categories:
History
Memoir/Biography
True Crime
Science
Health
Food
South East Asia
Humour (Humor)
Lost or found
Television
Subculture
Published in 2026

Nonfiction Grazer

I will be going for the Nonfiction Grazer goal; I have a few nonfiction books in mind that I’ll list below and cross off as I finish them, but otherwise I just want to share the nonfiction I read through the year!

The Books

I will be crossing them off and/or listing them here as I go. Check back often to see what I’ve read!

1. Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green – finished
2. Dare to Lead by Brené Brown – finished
3. The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer, MD – finished
4. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore – finished
5. Into the Wild by John Krakauer – finished
6. Educated by Tara Westover – finished
7. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston – finished
8. Stiff by Mary Roach – finished
9. Start Where You Are: The Beginner’s 5K Running Guide for Women by Sabrina Pace-Humphreys – finished
10. The Incomplete Book of Running by Peter Sagal – finished
11. High School by Tegan Quin and Sara Quin – finished
12. North by Scott Jurek and Jenny Jurek – finished
13. The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
14. Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
15. Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
16. The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
17. Unnatural Causes by Richard Shepherd
18. Eve by Cat Bohannon
19. The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
20. The Enchanted Life by Sharon Blackie
21. Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
22. This Isn’t Happening by Stephen Hyden