Nonfiction Reader Challenge 2022

Book'd Out is hosting a 2022 Nonfiction Reader Challenge which I think will be a good companion for me to the non-fiction reading goal I am setting for myself (more about that in a future post).

For this challenge there are 12 categories and the idea is to read one nonfiction book for each of them, or to read any 12 nonfiction books. There are also challenge levels for 3 and 6 books. There is also a set your own goal category (the nonfiction grazer). I am going to participate as a grazer because I plan to read 12 books, but only use some of the defined categories (8 at the most) and then fill in the remaining 4 spots with essentially wild-card selections.

These are the categories I am considering using (with possible titles for each):

Social History

• Columbine by Dave Cullen
• Stonewall: The Riots the Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter
• Brolliology: A History of the Umbrella in Life and Literature by Marion Rankine
• For All the Tea in China by Sarah Rose

Popular Science

• The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

Language

• Greek to Me by Mary Norris
• Living with a Dead Language by Ann Patty
• Shady Characters by Keith Houston
• Just My Type by Simon Garfield

Celebrity

• Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming
• Canada by Mike Meyers
• What Would Audrey Do? by Pamela Clark Keogh
• Cary Grant by Scott Eyman

Linked to a podcast

• NPR's Podcast Start-up Guide by Glen Weldon

Wild Animals

• A Libertarian Walks into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
• The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson

Economics

• The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr

Published in 2022 

• Maybe - depends on what comes out this year

The categories I think I will skip are Medical Memoir, Climate/Weather, Reference, and Geography.