Another long-term challenge

I saw this non-fiction challenge tonight and it appealed to me. It will take me a few days to completely assemble my list, but here is the beginning. I may make some adjustments. This is a list of at least 50 non-fiction books that I want to read in the next five years. I'm using the NF from my Filling in the Gaps list and the NF from my TBR pile to start with. My starting date is April 23, 2012, to be completed April 23, 2017.

1. Zion on the Mississippi by Walter Forster
2. Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie
3. Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
4. The President and the Assassin:Terror and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century by Scott Miller
5. Handling the Word of Truth by John Pless
6. Catherine the Great by Robert Massie
7. The Quotidian Mysteries by Kathleen Norris
8. Churchill by Paul Johnson
9. The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar
10. The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther
11. Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
12. In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
13. A Life Worth Living by John Holt
14. Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536 by Reston
15. Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
16. Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
17. The Guns of August by Barabara Tuchman
18. The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
19. The Forgotten Man by Amity Shales
20. The Histories by Herodotus
21. The New Vichy Syndrome by Theodore Dalrymple
22. King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
23. Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
24. The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
25. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
26. Decision Points by George W. Bush
27. Courage and Consequence by Karl Rove
28. Known and Unknown by Donald Rumsfeld      
29. The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World by John O'Sullivan
30. Statecraft by Margaret Thatcher     
31. Wodehouse: A life
32. John Adams by David McCollough
33. Thunderstruck by Eric Larson
34. In the Garden of Beasts by Eric Larson
35. The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston
36. 1491 by Charles C. Mann
37. A Mountain of Crumbs  
38. They Came in Ships
39. Whatever it Takes by Paul Tough
40.  Lunch in Paris by Elizabeth Bard
41. City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era by Michael Gerson
42. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin
43. Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Shell 
44. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson 
45. Remaking the Heartland: Middle America Since the 1950s by Robert Wuthnow
46. Jeneration X by Jen Lancaster (5/4/2012)
47. My Love Affair With England: A Traveler's Memoir by Susan Toth
48. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1/20/2013)
49.  Comfort Me With Apples by Ruth Reichl (4/7/2014)
50. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
51. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
52.  The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
53.  Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder (12/5/2014)
54. West from Home by Laura Ingalls Wilder
55. 1453 by Roger Crowley
56. Finding Your German Ancestors by Kevan Hansen 
57. Brunellesci's Dome by Ross King (1/9/2015)
58. The New Testament in His Blood by Burnell F. Eckardt, Jr. 
59. Women Pastors Edited by Matthew Harrison & John Pless
60. Georgette Heyer's Regency World by Jennifer Kloester (5/15/2012)

Third month down, the year's 1/4 over

March was a slow month, but I'm doing pretty well on my challenges.  The Moonstone really slowed me down. Beach Music was another slower read, as was All the King's Men, which I finished in April. I didn't love The Moonstone. I enjoyed Beach Music, but I was ready for it to be over before it was. Based purely on enjoyment, Delirium, a young adult dystopian novel, was my favorite that I read this month.


26. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (3/13/2012) (Name) (Mystery) (Gaps) (TBR) (Ebook)
27. Wheat Belly by William Davis, M.D. (3/16/2012) (Nonfiction) (Library)
28. Beach Music by Pat Conroy (3/22/2012) (Library) (Name) (Gaps) (TBR)
29. Victims by Jonathan Kellerman (3/23/2012) (Library) (Mystery)
30. Delirium by Lauren Oliver  (3/25/2012) (Library) (Dystopia) (Eclectic)
31. I'm Not Leaving by Carl Wilkens (3/25/2012) ( Memoir) (Library)