Recommended Nonfiction Lists Challenge - 2018

[Kara]

RECOMMENDED NONFICTION CHALLENGE
Duration January 1 to December 31, 2018

I'll be reading from Amazon's Most Read Nonfiction list from December 24.

1. Principles
2. Leonardo da Vinci
3. What Happened
4. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
5. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
6. The Last Black Unicorn

COMPLETED: 0/6

[Lois]

Not sure how I will do this one but I will either use the Dewey Decimal System or the Library of Congress System. Will decide at a latter date

[Stefani - SpelingExpirt]

I'd like to join please. I'll join up for 12.

1/12

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany 02/01

[Laurie]

I'll try for 12. Over half of these will fulfill books for other challenges I have, so this should give me extra motivation to read them.

4/12 read

1. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara
2. A Freak Of Freedom; Or, The Republic Of San Marino by James Theodore Bent
3. A Pattern Of Islands by Arthur Grimble 2/3/18
4. This Voice in My Heart: A Runner's Memoir of Genocide, Faith, and Forgiveness by Gilbert Tuhabonye
5. The Girl Who Fell to Earth by Sophia Al-Maria
6. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich 1/19/18
7. My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past by Jennifer Teege 2/15/18
8. China in Ten Words by Yu Hua
9. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
10. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
11. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
12. The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg 2/22/18

[Victoria Chen]

I am in for 12 in 2018. :)

[Caraina]

I'm going for 12
12/12

1. Letter to My Daughter
2. Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space
3. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
4. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
5. The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
6. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
7. Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
8. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
9. Truth & Beauty: A FriendshipTruth & Beauty: A Friendship
10. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
11. In Cold Blood
12. Between the World and Me

[Megan]

I'll go for 10

1. The Selfish Gene
2. Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
3. Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
4. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
5. The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
6. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
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0/10

[Daniel]

1. The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business on Jan 04
2. A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas on Jan 10
3. The Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else on Jan 17
4. Who: The a Method for Hiring on Jan 21
5. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing on Jan 30
6. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't on Feb 04
7. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies on Feb 12
8. How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In on Feb 14
9. Rules of Project Risk Managem[book:Practical Cost Control Handbook for Project Managersent|23081153] on Feb 18
10. The Power of Project Leadership: 7 Keys to Help You Transform from Project Manager to Project Leader on Feb 26
11. Advanced Scheduling Handbook for Project Managers on Mar 04
12. Practical Project Control Manager Handbook on Mar 10
13. Project Planning and Project Success: The 25% Solution on Mar 12
14. Practical Cost Control Handbook for Project Managers on Mar 16
15. Practical Project Risk Handbook for Project Managers on Mar 19
16. Construction Delays on Mar 30
17. Managing Stakeholder Expectations: A Knowledge Integration Framework and Value Focused Approach on April 07
18. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos on Apr 27
19. Writing Engineering Specifications on May 03
20. The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are on May 13
21. Don't Reply All: 18 Email Tactics That Help You Write Better Emails and Improve Communication with Your Team on May 14
22. Red Book - Form of Contract, Lump Sum Contracts, 4th Edition on May 19
23. Getting More: How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World on May 29
24. Build an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve on June 04
25. Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity on June 16
26. Meetings Matter: 8 Powerful Strategies for Remarkable Conversations on June 21
27. The Power of Positive Leadership: How and Why Positive Leaders Transform Teams and Organizations and Change the World on June 24
28. Davies On Contract on July 15
29. The Power of a Positive Team: Proven Principles and Practices That Make Great Teams Great on July 16
30. I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships on July 18
31. Risk Up Front: Managing Projects in a Complex World on July 21
32. Leadership Principles for Project Success on July 25
33. Instrumentation and Control Systems Documentation on July 28
34. The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits that Will Transform Your Life Before 8 a.m. on July 30
35. Making Projects Work: Effective Stakeholder and Communication Management on Aug 12
36. Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence on Aug 26
37. Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope and Compassion on Sep 08
38. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence (with featured article "What Makes a Leader?" by Daniel Goleman) on Sep 15
39. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It on Sep 23
40. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success on Oct 07
41. Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day on Oct 14
42. The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive on Oct 20
43. Methods of Persuasion: How to Use Psychology to Influence Human Behavior on Oct 25
44. Winning Well: A Manager's Guide to Getting Results---Without Losing Your Soul on Nov 03
45. The Chimp Paradox: The Acclaimed Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness on Nov 11
46. Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great on Nov 17
47. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win on Nov 21
48. Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart on Nov 25
49. Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter on Dec 06
50. The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results on Dec 09
51. Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster on Dec 15
52. Pre-Accident Investigations: An Introduction to Organizational Safety. Todd Conklin on Dec 18
53. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' on Dec 24
54. QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life on Dec 24
55. Managing the Unexpected: Sustained Performance in a Complex World on Dec 29
56. The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups on Dec 31

Progress: 56 of 50

[Geralyn]

Hi, I would like to join this challenge. I will try for six books.

1. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann.
2. Threading My Prayer Rug, One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim. by Sabeeha Rehman
3. In The Shadow of Statues by Mitch Landrieu

[Kat]

Is there a page minimum? I read We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 1/3/18 but it's only 52 pages.

[Clare]

Enjoyed my non-fiction last year so I'm in for 6 books.

4/6

1 Lion Saroo Brierley
2 No. More. Plastic.: What you can do to make a difference – the #2minutesolution Martin Dorey
3 The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle John Dickson Carr
4 Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma David Boyle

[Arushi]

I'm in for 12.

[Overbooked ✎]

@ Kat, I haven't seen a rule about books having a minimum number of pages, if it's non-fiction it's in :)

I just finished my first book:

1. The Happiness Trap

Progress: 1/18

[Carri]

Can you please up me from 5 to 10.

[Cait]

I'm in for 12!

So far, I've read one: Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear

My list:
1. Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear 1/1/18
2. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
3. The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
4. The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
5. Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
6. Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
7. The Novel: A Biography
8. The American Way of Death Revisited
9. The Best American Essays 2015
10. Both Flesh and Not: Essays
11. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction
12. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Total: 1/12

[Rula]

I'm in for 6.

[Cait]

I'm in for 12 - one per month:

Completed 1/12

1. Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear 1/1/18
2. The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
3. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
4. The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
5. Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
6. Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
7. The Novel: A Biography
8. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction
9. The American Way of Death Revisited
10. Both Flesh and Not: Essays
11. The Diary of a Young Girl
12. The Best American Essays of the Century

[Ben]

Non-Fiction Lists Challenge

I love reading non-fiction, and I'll aim for 20 (half my total goal for 2018)! I'll post all non-fiction that I read, but may take a few from the lists shared by the mods (thanks guys!).

This may end up being more to measure the amount of fiction I read this year, as I may end up blowing right through my goal!

Total: 6/20

1. Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Audible) 5/5 Review
2. Fatal Flight: The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship (Audible) 2/5 Review
3. Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day (Audible) 5/5 Review
4. The Men Who Killed the Luftwaffe: The U.S. Army Air Forces Against Germany in World War II (Audible) 4/5 Review
5. Against All Odds: The Untold Story of Canada's Unlikely Hockey Heroes 4/5 Review
6. Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations (Audible) 3/5 Review
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[Pamela]

Update to Message 39

I have read 1/6

The One Week Budget: Learn to Create Your Money Management System in 7 Days or Less!

[Susy]

Susy's Non-Fiction Challenge


1. Aarsrivalen, scheldkarbonades en terminale baden by Ewoud Sanders
2. Handboek EMDR by Ad de Jongh, Erik ten Broeke
3. Wijsheid op vier poten by Gotham Chopra
4. Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding by Paulien Cornelisse
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Books read: 4/12

[Rula]

Update: 1/6

1. Outliers: The Story of Success

[Leah]

I don't generally read non-fiction but have always wanted to try. I think I will try for 5 at this time :) Who knows...I might love them so much I will read more :)

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[Carmen]

:D I love non-fiction, although I want to read more fiction this year,
sign me up for 5!

1. The discoverers-Daniel J. Boorstin
2. Your inner fish-Neil Shubin
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[Bibliophile Britt]

I would like to join as well! I think I want to read 20 nonfiction this year: 4 memoir, 4 women's studies, 4 science, 4 history, and 4 philosophy!

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[Heather]

I'll join - my goal will be 12 (1/month).

1) Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
2) White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
3) On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
4) The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister
5) The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
6) All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
7) Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between
8) Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
9) Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
10) Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
11) I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
12) Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
13) The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
14) Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
15) We Are Never Meeting In Real Life
16) Meaty
17) We Should All Be Feminists
18) So You Want to Talk About Race
19) The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
20) Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
21) The Devil Finds Work
22) American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land

[Overbooked ✎]

2. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Progress: 2/18

[Rula]

update: 2/6

1. Outliers: The Story of Success
2. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

[Ben]

Update message 69:

2/20

[Kadijah Michelle]

Everyone is updated! Congratulations to all the participants that have completed their first books!

[Becca]

I barely read any nonfiction, and I'd like to read more! I will try for 4 for now.

[Stefani - SpelingExpirt]

I've read my first book.

[Chrissy]

I finished my first book and updated post 19.

Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times, ★★★★

[Berit]

Edited post #9.
So far 2/15.

[Becca]

1/4

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

[[deleted user]]

Edited message #20

[Heather]

Rebecca wrote: "1/10

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot"

I loved this book! As a scientist who's worked with HeLa cells, it was fascinating and sad - raised a lot of interesting ethical questions.

[Cait]

Update:

Completed 2/12

1. Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear
2. The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer

[Laurie]

Update for message 55

Completed 1/12

1. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich 1/19/18

[Susy]

Update message 71


2. Handboek EMDR by Ad de Jongh, Erik ten Broeke


Books read: 2/12

[Doris]

I don't read as much non-fiction as I'd like to think I do! ;-)

I think that I'll try for 24.

Books read: 39/24 (as of 27-December)

1. A Moveable Feast
2. The Gospel of Mark
3. The End of Food
4. Mao: The Unknown Story
5. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
6. Rereadings: Seventeen writers revisit books they love
7. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
8. Think Like a Cat: How to Raise a Well-Adjusted Cat—Not a Sour Puss
9. Fasting: The Ancient Practices
10. The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation
11. Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
12. The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
13. Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
14. Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy
15. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
16. Caesar: Life of a Colossus
17. Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels
18. French Children Don't Throw Food
19. Super Immunity: The Essential Nutrition Guide for Boosting Your Body's Defenses to Live Longer, Stronger, and Disease Free
20. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
21. Mr. Speaker!: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed The Man Who Broke the Filibuster
22. The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
23. Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure
24. Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World

Finished - Yay! Now onto the bonus books

25. Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
26. The Romanovs: 1613-1918
27. Not So Happily Ever After: The Tale of King Ludwig II
28. Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
29. Drinking with Dead Women Writers
30. The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician
31. French Indochina: The History and Legacy of the French Empire’s Colonialism in Southeast Asia
32. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
33. Reading in Bed: Brief Headlong Essays about Books & Writers & Reading & Readerswriters
34. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
35. The League of Nations: The Controversial History of the Failed Organization that Preceded the United Nations
36. A Short History of Cambodia: From Empire to Survival
37. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
38. Heyer Society: Essays on the Literary Genius of Georgette Heyer
39. Grant

[Overbooked ✎]

3. This House of Grief

Progress: 3/18

[Overbooked ✎]

4. Call the Midwife
5. How to Care for Aging Parents, 3rd Edition: A One-Stop Resource for All Your Medical, Financial, Housing, and Emotional Issues

Progress: 5/18

[Chrissy]

Updated post 19 with Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, 2/12 complete

[Berit]

Edited post #9.
So far 3/15.

[Overbooked ✎]

6. Catch Me If You Can

Progress: 6/18

[Lauren]

I finished my first one for the year. 1/20!

The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research

[Betsy]

I would like to join this challenge! I will read 20 non-fiction books.


1. A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams --COMPLETED
2. The Year of Magical Thinking --COMPLETED
3. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis --COMPLETED
4. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey - COMPLETED
5. Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide--COMPLETED
6. The Zookeeper's Wife --COMPLETED
7. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics-- COMPLETED
8. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - COMPLTETED
9. In the Company of Crows and Ravens COMPLETED
10. On Looking: A Walker’s Guide to the Art of Observation-COMPLETED
11. The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding- COMPLETED
12. The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche - COMPLETED
13. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow-COMPLETED
14. Testament of Youth-COMPLETED
15. The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve-COMPLETED
16. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media-COMPLETED
17. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture --COMPLETED
18. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster --COMPLETED
19. Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space-- COMPLETED
20. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom COMPLETED

COMPLETED 20/20!


Challenge complete!!!

[Rina]

Update to message 51:
Progress: 4/10

[Chrissy]

update to message 19, 3/12
What Happened finished Jan 30 ★★★★★

[Vicki]

Update to Post # 36

2/12

Book # Title Author
1 Bitch on Wheels Gregg Olsen
2 Murder most Vile Volume One Robert Keller