Inspired by ShelleyRae over at Book’dout, I’m going to be taking part in the 2022 NonFiction Challenge. I do read some nonfiction, but this year I’m going to be committing to 12 books over the course of the year, hopefully achieving nonfiction nosher status. The categories are:

Categories:

1. Social History

2. Popular Science

3. Language

4. Medical Memoir

5. Climate/Weather

6. Celebrity

7. Reference

8. Geography

9. Linked to a podcast

10. Wild Animals

11. Economics

12. Published in 2022

I’m also going to be using this challenge to tackle some books that have been lingering in my TBR pile for far too long.

I have already started the economics category - it’s a book written by the economist Noreen Hertz called The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That's Pulling Apart. I’m already finding it fascinating, as she links what is now a loneliness epidemic to Neo-liberalism and capitalism.

For celebrity, you don’t get much bigger than Paul McCartney so I’ll be going with that one. His lyrics - 1956 to present was gifted to me at Christmas, so I’m looking forward to getting stuck into that. At 900 pages, I’ll be taking my time with it - whilst listening to the songs, of course.

For medical memoir, it’s going to be When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi which has been on my TBR list for a while.

Underland by Robert McFarlane will be my Geography pick, another one I’ve been looking forward to.

Diary of a young naturalist by Dara McAnulty has been receiving rave reviews here and abroad, so that’s my pick for the wild animals category.

Social history is going to be Rutger Bregman’s Humankind - Utopia for realists by the same author was a real highlight for me last year.

For popular science I’ve went with The brain that changes itself: Stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science by Norman Doidge.

That’s certainly enough to be getting on with. Still a few categories to fill, so if you have any suggestions, please comment below!