Reading Challenge: Non-fiction Menu 2025

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1. Books about history In the Land of Giants: A Journey Through the Dark Ages by Max Adams 

2. Books about imperialism Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made Handel's Messiah by Charles King 

3. Books about growing When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance by Riley Black 

4. Books about the planet Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer 

5. Books about race The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 

6. Books about antisemitism Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 

7. Books about brains Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain by B.D. Burrell, Allan H. Ropper 

8. Books about bodies The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke 

9. Books about a person's thoughts A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel 

10. Books about queerness Nothing Ever Just Disappears: A New History of Queer Culture Through Its Spaces by Diarmuid Hester