Created to encourage more nonfiction reading, I hope to step up my nonfiction game this year. To learn more about this challenge go here.

I always start out the year with such optimism with these reading challenges and this year is no exception. I want to commit to reading at least one nonfiction a month. Though I am a confirmed classics literature reader I do collect nonfiction and it’s time these books come to see the light of the sun, reading lamp or wherever I choose to read them! I might mix and match from others on my shelves, but this is a good place to start.

1. In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson
2. The Seven Story Mountain: An Autobiography of Faith , Thomas Merton
3. Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain
4. When Books went to War: The Stories that Helped us Win World War II, Molly Guptill Manning
5. A Backward Glance: An Autobiography, Edith Wharton
6. King Solomon’s Ring, Konrad Z. Lorenz
7. Travels in Alaska, John Muir
8. Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, Tim Whitmarsh
9. Conversing with the Planets: How Science and Myth Invented the Cosmos, Anthony Aveni
10. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness, Sy Montgomery
11. Letters from a Stoic, Seneca
12. Comic Memory: Prehistory of Earth and Man, Rudolf Steiner
13. Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings

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