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QUIZ: What Nonfiction Book Should I Read Next?

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Corin Balkovek

Staff Writer

As a child, Corin tried to find ways to look busy when she was actually reading a book. She still does that, but as a librarian, she has more luck pulling it off.

It can be hard to break out of your reading patterns. If you are a tried-and-true fiction reader, jumping into the world of nonfiction can be daunting. There are just so many subjects! So many kinds of nonfiction writing! How is someone supposed to know what nonfiction book they should read?

Simple: take our quiz and let it choose a book for you!

 

Books Mentioned

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
The Noble Hustle by Colson Whitehead
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Adventure Gap by James E. Mills
The Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
So Close to Being the Shit, Y’all Don’t Even Know by Retta

Want Book Riot to help you find some more things to read? Try out one of these quizzes:

 

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QUIZ: WHAT COMIC BOOK SHOULD I READ?

QUIZ: WHICH BOOK SHOULD BE YOUR SUMMER READ?