Polymath Training Challenge is a non-fiction reading challenge that has been running on a Hungarian book site for the past 11 years. Each year it has 12 categories that participants have to pick their own nonfiction reads for (incl. memoirs and biographies). I have discovered several amazing nonfiction books through this challenge, so I decided to make a list of the best, and most mind-blowing, of them so far.
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last updated August, 2026







To clarify, this list is the books that you personally read/enjoyed from this challenge, or the lisy books put up as part of the challenge?
These are the ones I personally read and liked. I didn't include the ones I didn't like much.