6 non fiction books for 2025

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71 participants (249 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read six non-fiction books this year, that's one every two months!

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Hallie Rubenhold

415 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction biography history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule

Small Sacrifices

Ann Rule

494 pages • paperback • 1987

nonfiction true crime dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Michelle McNamara

352 pages • digital • 2018

nonfiction true crime dark informative mysterious medium-paced
Horror: A Literary History by Xavier Aldana Reyes

Horror: A Literary History

Xavier Aldana Reyes

232 pages • paperback • 2016

nonfiction horror dark mysterious slow-paced
Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride - 30 Years of Gay Britain by Paul Flynn

Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride - 30 Years of Gay Britain

Paul Flynn

368 pages • 2016

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the Lgbtq Rights Uprising That Changed America by Martin Duberman

Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the Lgbtq Rights Uprising That Changed America

Martin Duberman

432 pages • paperback • 1993

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ emotional slow-paced
Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean by B.R. Burg

Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean

B.R. Burg

264 pages • paperback • 1983

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ sociology challenging informative slow-paced
Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy

Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity

Robert Beachy

305 pages • 2014

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ informative slow-paced
Rebel Women by Rosalind Miles

Rebel Women

Rosalind Miles

413 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS by Simon Garfield

The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS

Simon Garfield

560 pages • paperback • 1994

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging emotional informative medium-paced