Recommended Nonfiction Lists Challenge - 2018

[Kat]

Message 17

Finished: 12/12

[Amanda]

Update #18


2. Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace with Marriage. by Elizabeth Gilbert Completed 11/4/18 Rating 3 stars


2/5

[Jennifer]

Update to message 187.

Finished the following:

1808: The Flight of the Emperor: How a Weak Prince, a Mad Queen, and the British Navy Tricked Napoleon and Changed the New World

Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World

Silent Spring

The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind

Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World

As usual, my thoughts for all of these can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... - starting with message 48.

17/24

[Chrissy]

I'm up to 8 now (message 19).

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18. Resistance: A French Woman's Journal of the War

18/18 challenge completed, but I'll carry on counting, to see how many non-fiction I can read during the year.

[Harshmi]

Hi!! I've been wanting to read more nonfiction. I will try for 4 books.

3/4 completed

1. Mrs Funnybones
2. Milk and Honey
3. My Brief History

[Overbooked ✎]

19. Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything

20. At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking

20/18

[Ben]

Update message 69:

Progress: 6/20

[Amanda]

updated message 10
3/15

[EmilLindstrom]

Sign me up!

The rest of 2018, my goal is to read 50 non-fiction books.

[Overbooked ✎]

21. The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction

21/18

[Patricia]

Completed 4/6 so far (message 184).

[Lauren]

I already finished by challenge but I wanted to let you all know that I just finished Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary and highly recommend it. It is a very easy to read biography and so interesting. Learned so much!

[Amanda]

Update #18


3. How To Launch A Freelance Copywriting Business: Creative Writing For A Living by Jules Horne
Completed 21/5/18 Rating 4 stars


3/5

[Berit]

Edited post #9.
So far 11/15.

[Betsy]

I have updated message 98.
As of end of May I have completed 9/20.
Just finished an excellent book on North Korea, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom , I definitely recommend as it is a compelling story of the will to survive.

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22. Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi

22/18

[Paula]

I completed the challenge: 10/10 on 1st June (see message 30) but I'll continue to add titles for the rest of the year. Many thanks indeed, Kadijah.

[Hafsa | حفصہ]

Updated message 181

Completed: 5/15

[Lindsay]

Update msg 8

6 completed

[[deleted user]]

#20 updated 6/22

[Carmen]

Hi! I already finished
1. The discoverers by Daniel J Boorstin
2. Your inner fish by Neil Shubin
3. A guide to rational living by Albert Ellis
4. Souvenirs entomologiques by J. H. Fabre
5. Squid empire b Danna Staaf

Not sure if A guide to rational living counts though :/
please let me know!

(Also if any of you have any recommendations on non-fiction natural history/biology books that you enjoyed) :)

[Elizabeth]

I'd like to join!


1. One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
2. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
3.I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
4. How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
5. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
6. You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
7.The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
8. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
9.
10.

[Doris]

Updated message #91.
Now 17/24 with the additions of Caesar: Life of a Colossus and Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels

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23. The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream

23/18

[jb]

UPDATED message 159
1/12 nonfiction books

[Jennifer]

Update to message 204.

Finished the following:

The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code

Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America

Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery

20/24

[Chrissy]

Updated message 19 with my 9th book:
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics, ★★★

[Overbooked ✎]

The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough

24/18

[Jenn]

Updated message 5
4/15

[Elizabeth]

Update 2/10 completed!

[Overbooked ✎]

25. A Night to Remember

25/18

[Kerry]

ok will try put down for 1p

[Charity]

Updated message 7.

1/5

[Jennifer]

Update to message 228.

Finished two more:

Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall

Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon

22/24

[Jennifer]

Carmen wrote: "Hi! I already finished
1. The discoverers by Daniel J Boorstin
2. Your inner fish by Neil Shubin
3. A guide to rational living by Albert Ellis
4. Souvenirs entomologiques by J. H. Fabre
5. Squid e..."

(Also if any of you have any recommendations on non-fiction natural history/biology books that you enjoyed) :)

I can recommend The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History and The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code. I have a degree in biology, so you might also want to check out my shelves :)

[Heather]

updated message 76

22/12

[jb]

Updated message 159
Finished 2/12

[Betsy]

Updated message 98
Completed 14/20

[jb]

jb wrote: "I’d like to join the challenge. I love reading non fiction. Please put me down for 12.

NONFICTION

1. [book:Life's Too Short to Go So F*cking Slow: Lessons from an Epic Friendship That Went the D..."

Updated message 159

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26. Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

26/18

[Doris]

Updated message 91: now at 21/24
Recent additions:
French Children Don't Throw Food,
Super Immunity: The Essential Nutrition Guide for Boosting Your Body's Defenses to Live Longer, Stronger, and Disease Free,
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, and
Mr. Speaker!: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed The Man Who Broke the Filibuster.

[Candiss]

I updated message #15.

Read: 3/4

[Rachelnyc]

Updated msg 141. 11/24

[Camille]

Hello, I would like to join. I have read mostly non-fiction, I've read about 2 or 3 novels. So far I have read 24 books since January. You can find my books I have read under the individual challenges--1-50, Camille's reading 50 in 2018. I have just finished reading "The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization" by: Elaine Svenonius.

Camille

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27. Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward by Elizabeth Ford

27/18

[Jennifer]

Update to message 236.

Recently finished:

All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt - really liked it.

The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True Story of the Spanish Armada

Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman---and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America

Nature’s Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything - really liked it.

This should put me at 26/24, and into the bonus round! I have no intentions of stopping, either :)

[[deleted user]]

msg #20 updated

[Doris]

Updated message #91. Now at 22/24 with the addition of The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography.

[Overbooked ✎]

28. The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence by Amir Husain

28/18