When I found The Fantasy Project, I also realized that Michelle had created a nonfiction challenge.  How did I not know about these?  I lover her seasonal readathons and general book choices.  I need to jump on this challenge also... I'm setting a goal of 100 books in 5 years, so my end date is August 2018.  I think I can manage that, and I just might go over.  I really want to read the nonfiction in my own stacks and branch out to those must reads I keep seeing.  See my list below the challenge details:

Here are the guidelines:

• choose 50+ non-fiction books; the number is up to you.  Choose 50, 75, 100, 200.  It's entirely your choice
• Books must be non-fiction--biography, autobiography, history, memoir, cooking, travel, science, etc.
• list them at your blog (or on Goodreads or another social media site, if you do not have a blog)
• choose your completion goal date five years in the future and make note of it with your list of titles (like this:  reading goal--50 books  goal dates--March 20, 2012 - March 20, 2017)
• come back here and post the link to your list in the linky below
• write a review (or a short summary) on the book when finished and link it to the title in your list (or link to your review on Goodreads, again, if you don't have a blog)
• there will be pages posted at the top of the blog for you to link your reviews
• when you have completed the challenge, come add your link to the Completed Challenges page
• there will be a blog roll in the sidebar where I will list you/your blog linked to your lists
• grab the button in the right sidebar and link it back to this blog
• check out this PAGE which contains links to various online sources with lists of reading ideas
• I might host a read-a-long from time to time.  If you are hosting one, or an event or challenge surrounding a non-fiction title, post about it at this PAGE
• this challenge can be crossed over with any other challenges
• your link in the linky below mustlead to your list, not just your main blog address.  Any links that are blog links only will be deleted

Updates: *I was asked if the list has to be made in advance.  The idea is to work toward reading non-fiction that you've been wanting to read so the list is mandatory. However, the list does not have to be set in stone. You can change out titles as the mood suits you.

My List:

The first 24 are taken directly from my Goodreads TBR shelf.  And the first 53 are those that I currently own.  The rest are suggestions and those I've been wanting to read. Notice the huge trend of history and women's studies volumes.  Can you guess what my college majors were?

1. Tales from the Boom Boom Room by Susan Antilla
2. A History of God by Karen Armstrong
3. The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
4. The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong
5. Alexander Hamilton by Richard Brookhiser
6. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
7. Living History by Hilary Rodham Clinton
8. What Ifs? of American History by Robert Cowley
9. Collapse by Jared Diamond
10. Where the Girls Are by Susan Douglas
11. Born for Liberty by Sara Evans
12. Longitudes and Attitudes by Thomas Friedman
13. The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
14. The Confessions of St. Augustine
15. The Private World of Georgette Heyer by Joan Aiken Hodge
16. 13 by Nathaniel Lackenmeyer
17. 1776 by David McCullough
18. Founding Myths by Ray Raphael
19. A Great Improvisation by Stacy Schiff
20. The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
21. When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone
22. Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
23. One Woman, One Vote by Marjorie Wheeler
24. A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonescraft
25. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
26. The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
27. Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
28. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
29. Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich
30. You Did What by Bill Fawcett
31. No Turning Back by Estelle Freedman
32. Bachelor Girl by Betty Israel
33. Ladies and Not So Gentle Women by Alfred Allan Lewis
34. Origin of Satan by Elaine Pagels
35. Becoming Mona Lisa by Donald Sassoon
36. A History of the Wife by Marilyn Yalom
37. What They Didn't Teach You About the Civil War by Mike Wright
38. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
39. Common Sense by Thomas Paine
40. Spinning Straw into Gold by Joan Gould
41. John Adams by James Grant
42. Frida by Hayden Herrera
43. Histories by Herodotus
44. Witchcraze by Anne Llewellyn Barstow
45. Democracy by Alexis de Tocqueville
46. Jesus and the Lost Goddess by Timothy Freke
47. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
48. Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol Karlsen
49. College Girls by Lynn Peril
50. Boundaries of Her Body by Deborah Rowland
51. Warrior Women by Jeanine Davis
52. Five Sisters by James Fox
53. The Words We Live By by Linda Monk
54. Catherine the Great by Robert Massie
55. Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
56. Royal Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs by Carolly Erickson
57. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
58. The Joy of Books by Eric Burns
59. The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
60. On Writing by Stephen King
61. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
62. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
63. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
64. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
65. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
66. Washington by Ron Chernow
67. American Lion by Jon Meacham
68. Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper
69. The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
70. Traitor to His Class by H.W. Brands
71. Truman by David McCullough
72. Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt
73. The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
74. In the Footsteps of Alexander by Michael Wood
75. The Map that Changed the World by Simon Winchester
76. She-Wolves by Helen Castor
77. The Vanished Library by Luciano Canfora
78. (the rest is TBD)