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Trying this for a third year as have now accumulated quite a few non- fiction books so I'm aiming to read a further 12 non- fiction books over the coming year. (1 a month has proved do-able in the past!)

Feel free to join me at any time - just set your own number of books.

1 "Next Exit, Magic Kingdom" - Rory MacLean (read Jan)
2 "Other Minds: The Octopus, the sea & the Deep Origins of Consciousness" - Peter Godfrey-Smith (April)
3 "The Great North Road" - Steve Silk (May)
4 "Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World" - Sarah Vowell (June)
5 "The Gran Tour" - Ben Aitken (June)
6 "Miranda's Daily Dose of Such Fun!" - Miranda Hart (June)
7 "No Shame: A Queer Life in Suburbia" - Tom Allen (June)
8 "Barbed Wire & Babushkas" - Paul Gorgan (July)
9 "The Lady in the Van - Alan Bennett (July)
10 "Tales of Liverpool: Murder, Mayhem, Mystery" - Richard Whittington- Egan (August)
11 "Eggs" - Linda Sonntag (August)
12 "The Little Book of Cats" - Michelle Lovric (August)
13 "The A - Z Curiosities of the Yorkshire Dales" - Summer Strevens (October)
14 "Amazing and Extraordinary Facts About Great Britain" - Stephen Halliday (November)
15 "Wishful Drinking" - Carrie Fisher (November)

I'll join you. I managed the 12 plus a few more (16 in total), but I will choose 12 again.

1. The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People by Rick Bragg 1/11/2023
2. These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett 3/12/2023
3. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann 6/9/2023
4. The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn 6/25/2023
5. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson 8/15/2023
6. The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light by Jean Edward Smith 10/15/2023
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I'll join, too. I'm sure I can manage 12, and I hope to remember to record them!

1. partway through Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
2. Wanderlust: A History of Walking if I don't dnf it
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I'll join and aim for 12. I'll add to the list once I finish reading. Thanks! :)
Updating to add list 30/12/23
Thank you Plum-crazy for setting up this challenge. Nice to see what you all have read too. Wishing everyone the Best for 2024! May it be filled with lots of reading :)


1. Iris by Fiona Kelly McGregor

2. The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

3. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten Years On From the Misogyny Speech by Julia Gillard

4. Did I ever Tell you This? By Sam Neill

5. Stranger om a Pier: Portrait of a Family by Tash Aw

6. War Gardens by Lalage Snow

7. Wifedom : Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Ana Funder

8. Cadence : Travels with Music by Emma Ayres

9. Book by John Agaard

10. The Voice to Parliament by Thomas Mayo

11. In the Margins by Elena Ferrante

12. Xiu Yang by Mimi Kuo-Deemer

13. The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku

14. The Kindness Pact by Dominique Bertolucci

Two to go! Keep forgetting to post what I've read....