2019 Nonfiction Reading Challenge

I want to do this one again, even though I've already signed up for the nonfiction bingo challenge.

I know this is a little late to announce a challenge, but I will be hosting a nonfiction reading challenge in 2019. I mostly want to provide a place for you to share your nonfiction goals and to chat with other nonfiction readers. To make that possible, we’ll have three twitter chats throughout the year, plus optional email reminders. Goals will be flexible and up to you. Sign-ups will be open through January 30th.

Suggested Goals

Rather than suggest particular levels for this challenge, I’ve got a couple of ideas for different nonfiction reading goals you could set for yourself.

• Read X nonfiction books
• Read X% nonfiction
• Read nonfiction in certain categories – I’ve put together checklists for reading diversely and for reading one book for each century in the Dewey Decimal system, or you could make your own
• Read X books from a list, such as buzzfeed’s important nonfiction you should be reading, the winners of the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, or any of these goodreads lists

Let me know if there are other types of goals you’d suggest and I’ll add them to the list.

Here is what I am reading:

1. Quicksilver Chronicles--Frances K. Woods
2. Wasted--Marya Hornbacher
3. Educated--Tara Westover
4. Kabul Beauty School--Deborah Rodriguez
5. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?--Roz Chast
6. Who Was Walt Disney?--Whitney Stewart
7. Hidden Figures--Margot Lee Sheerly
8. Gangsters & Gold Diggers--Jerome Charyn
9. I Have Lived a Thousand Years--Livia Bitton-Jackson
10. World War I--Adriane Ruggeri
11. How the Internet Happened--Brian McCullough
12. Radical Sanity--Elizabeth Wurtzel 
13. Just Between Us--Mario Lopez
14. The Zookeeper's Wife--Diane Ackerman
15. She Wanted It All--Kathryn Casey
16. Letters From Madelyn--Elaine K. Sanchez
17. Roses and Radicals--Susan Zimet
18. Courage to Soar--Simone Biles
19. Bright Lights, Big A**--Jen Lancaster
20. Creatocracy--Elizabeth Wurtzel
21. Integrated Robots--Erik Richardson
22. Titian--Stefano Zuffi
23. Eat, Pray, Love--Elizabeth Gilbert
24. The Collected Essays of Katherine Anne Porter
25. The Astronaut Wives Club--Lily Koppel
26. This Book is Gay--James Dawson
27. Americanized--Sara Saedi
28. Astral Weeks--Ryan H. Walsh
29. When Breath Becomes Air--Paul Kalinithi
30. My Horizontal Life--Chelsea Handler
31. The Mothman Prophecies--John A. Keel
32. An Unquiet Mind--Kay Redfield Jamison
33. Sweet! The Delicious Story of Candy--Jane Love
34. 1930s: From the Great Depression to the Wizard of Oz--Stephen Feinstein
35. Night Flying Woman--Igantia Booker
36. Becoming--Michelle Obama
37. The Magnolia Story--Chip and Joanna Gaines
38. Me--Elton John
39. Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing--Abram Shalom Himelstein & Jamie Schweser
40. Clothes and Crafts in Victorian Times--Philip Steele
41. Grammar: Know Your Sh*t or Know You're Sh*t--Joanne Adams
42. Dewey's Nine Lives--Vicki Myron
43. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down--Anne Fadiman

Challenge completed on December 27