This is my progress page for the 2018 Non-Fiction Reading Challenge.
The official sign-up page is on DoingDeweyDecimal.
I posted about my goals and the rules I’m setting for myself here.
Goals:
Read 10 books about Africa, set in African, or dealing with the African diaspora.
- Read Tears of the Desert (memoir of ordinary life and then the genocide in Darfur).
- Read And the Journey Begins (Deaf South African, also a library book).
Read 10 books from my unread shelves.
- Read Same Family, Different Colors, which also counts for the January monthly diversity goal.
Read 10 library books.
I’m only counting them if A) I finish reviewing them and B) I don’t go into overdue status.
- Read And the Journey Begins (Deaf South African, also an African book)
Read 10 books that fit into my ongoing multi-year challenges.
#100indigenousbooks challenge .
Read 10 books that fit the monthly diversity goals or are chosen for the quarterly group reads.
- January – Biracial Awareness
Read Same Family, Different Colors (also from my unread shelves) - February – Black History Month
- March – Women’s History Month
- April – Arab Heritage Month
- May – Asian/Pacific Islander History Month
- June – LGBT Pride Summer
- July – LGBT Pride Summer
- August – Mental Health Awareness
- September – Hispanic History Month
- October – Physical Disability Awareness Month
- November – Native American History Month
- December – Religious Minorities
Complete one of my 5 challenge books from start to finish.
- Long Walk to Freedom (the comprehensive autobiography of Nelson Mandela)
- For Hearing People Only (a textbook about Deaf culture and ASL)
- Roots (the story of one black family through several generations)*
- The New Jim Crow (a look at the racial bias in mass incarceration in the US)
- God is Not One (Stephen Prothero’s study of world religions)
*I realize that Roots is today classified as a work of fiction. However the old edition I have was marked nonfiction so it’s been shelved with those books and fits with this part of the challenge.
Stretch Goals:
Read the 8 books about the Civil Rights Movement that I already own, and any others I acquire in 2018.
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Read 10 books about Central or South America, set in Central or South America, or featuring Central or South American main characters but taking place elsewhere.
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Last Updated: January 24th, 2018.