Rather than suggest particular levels for this challenge, I’ve got a couple ideas for different nonfiction reading goals you could set for yourself.
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Read X% nonfiction
Read nonfiction in certain categories
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I’m going for a double-up goal. First, I’d like to read at least 25% nonfiction in 2018. Second, I’d like to read eight books from the following “Research” list. These are books about magic, Omaha, and crime. There are twelve books on this list, three overlap with my TBR challenge.
- A Dirty, Wicked Town: Tales of 19th Century Omaha by David L. Bristow – READ
- Thieves, Rascals, and Sore Losers by Marilyn June Coffey – READ
- Here Is Real Magic by Nate Staniforth – READ
- …Memoirs and Confessions of a Stage Magician by Don & Joyce Brandon – READ
- Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con Artist by Peter Fenton – READ
- The Science of Illusions by Jacques Ninio – READ
The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini by Ruth Brandon– DNF- River City Empire by Orville D. Menard (reread)
- Houdini and Conan Doyle by Christopher Sanford – READ
- A Magician’s Tour by Harry Kellar
- Twenty Years a Detective by Clifton R Woodridge
- The Spirit Portrait Mystery & The Marvelous Creations of Joseffy by David P. Abbott (reread)
Percent of Nonfiction read in 2018: 35%
Updated: 12/24/18
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