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Shellyrae @ Book’d Out is hosting  the 2026 Nonfiction Reader Challenge. The aim of the Challenge is to encourage you to make nonfiction part of your reading experience during the year. For the different goals and categories see this post.

I’m joining this challenge because I want to read more nonfiction next year, so the Nonfiction Grazer goal is perfect for me, ‘Read & review any nonfiction book. Set your own goal, or none at all, just share the nonfiction you read through the year“. This year I read 8 nonfiction books, so for 2026 I’ll be aiming to read and review at least 10 books.

The challenge will run from January 1st to December 31st 2026. Participants may join at any time up until December 1st 2026.

There are just a few days left in the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2025 hosted by Marg at The Intrepid Reader & Baker. These are the books I’ve read including those I haven’t reviewed:

1. Signal Moon by Kate Quinn
2. The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths
3. Only Murders in the Abbey by Beth Cowan-Erskine
4. Murder at Gull’s Nest by Jess Kidd
5. Resistance by Owen Sheers
6. My Beautiful Imperial by Rhiannon Lewis
7. The House of Lost Whispers by Jenni Keer
8. The Curious Case of the Village in the Moonlight by Steve Wiley
9. Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd
10. The Elopement by Gill Hornby
11. The Librarian by Salley Vickers
12. The House of Seymour by Joanna Hickson
13. Small Wars by Sadie Jones
14. The Death of Shame by Ambrose Parry
15. The Predicament by William Boyd
16. The Seeker of Lost Paintings by Sarah Freethy
17. The Ghost Cat by Alex Howard
18. A Legacy of Secrets by Lulu Taylor
19. Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
20. Circe by Madeleine Miller
21. West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
22. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
23. Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault

I was aiming to reach the Medieval Level – 15 books, but exceeded that so next year I’ll be aiming to reach the Ancient History Level – 25 books – and to review all of them!