Non-fiction Challenge 2018

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This year I'm going to try and read more non-fiction, a genre I've mostly avoided over the years. I've always considered non-fiction to be dry and boring, but it's not like there aren't plenty of fascinating true stories out there, and it seems silly to dismiss a whole genre - so I'm going to try to give myself more exposure to it and see if I change my mind. The goal is to read one per month!

1. The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston (January: Complete)
2. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (February: Complete)
3. Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed by Kathy Marks (March: Complete)
4. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (April: Complete)
5. Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction by Maia Szalavitz (May: Complete)
6. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker (June: Complete)
7. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (July: Complete)
8. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara (August: Complete)
9. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou (September/October: Complete)
10. Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia by Michael Farquhar (October: Complete)
11. Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction by Gabrielle Moss (November: Complete)
12. Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade (December: Complete)

I haven't quite figured out the rest of the list yet, but possible candidates include:

• Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives by George Lakoff
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
• Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era by Michael Kimmel
• Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
• What Happened by Hillary Clinton
• All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan by Elizabeth Warren
• And Hell Followed With It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado by Bonar Menninger
• Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger