Joy is hosting the Nonfiction Five Challenge. I told myself I wouldn’t join any challenges because I don’t want “pressure” to finish books in a certain time period, but this is one I’ll be doing anyway: read five nonfiction books between May and September. One of the five has to be a different subgenre (i.e., they can’t be all biographies/memoirs). Here’s my tentative list, although I have so very many nonfiction books on my list to be read:

Biography/Memoir
(I just finished reading A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle, but I won’t count that because I finished it before I joined “The Challenge”.)

  1. Personal History by Katharine Graham
  2. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman
  3. Why Women Should Rule the World by Dee Dee Myers
  4. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (about Lincoln)

Science (a subject I know little about)

  1. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

Alternates

  1. Something about how to buy a house and get a mortgage
  2. Stiff by Mary Roach
  3. The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
  4. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
  5. On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee (although this is really a reference book)