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Nonfiction November Reading Challenge

A month of true stories. Eight prompts across memoir, history, science and essays, for anyone who reads mostly fiction the other eleven months. Any book that fits counts.

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A memoir by someone whose life is nothing like yours

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Educated Tara Westover
Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner

A history of a single object or idea

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Salt Mark Kurlansky
The Book of Tea Kakuzō Okakura

Popular science you can explain at dinner

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Entangled Life Merlin Sheldrake
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot

A book about the natural world

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Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer
H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald

Narrative nonfiction that reads like a thriller

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Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann
Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe

A collection of essays

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin

A book about a place

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The Snow Leopard Peter Matthiessen
In Patagonia Bruce Chatwin

A book about books, reading or writing

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Bird by Bird Anne Lamott
On Writing Stephen King