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At the beginning of 2025, I completed the 75 Hard Challenge<\/a>, which required reading at least 10 pages of a non-fiction book each day. This wasn’t a challenge for me as sometimes I read my 10 pages (really a chapter or two) and then read a book for pleasure. And honestly, I read a fair amount of non-fiction so it was more about being intentional during the 75 days<\/a>. I read a total of 16 books 7 of which were non-fiction. The books I read included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. HWPO: Hard Work Pays Off: A Strength Training Book by Mat Fraer<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. A Runner’s High: My Life in Motion by Dean Karnazes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. The Heart is the Strongest Muscle by Tia Toomey<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World’s Fittest Athletes by Ben Bergeron<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Resilient: The Untold Story of CrossFit’s Greatest Comeback by Brooke Wells<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Adrift: Seventy Six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter (finished the day after 75 Hard ended)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    I also started the year off reading Along Came a Spider. This is the first novel in James Patterson’s Alex Cross series. I don’t know how it took this long to learn about Alex Cross, but my sister recommended the show Cross on Amazon Prime<\/a> and that got me hooked! I made it through the first 10 books of the soon to be 37 books in the series. They are relatively quick reads and I enjoy them even if they aren’t high literature! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Salvage the Bones is a book you’ve probably not heard of but I’d recommend. The story is set over 2 weeks as a hurricane approaches and the realities of coming of age in a high poverty area of Mississippi. A variety of twists and turns will leave you feeling all the different emotions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Of the non-fiction books I read during 75 Hard I would highly recommend The Comfort Crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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