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!

Challenge Books

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An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris by Georges Perec

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris

Georges Perec

55 pages • paperback • 1975

nonfiction essays reflective medium-paced
The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages by François-Xavier Fauvelle

The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages

François-Xavier Fauvelle

280 pages • digital • 2013

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

David Graeber

118 pages • paperback • 2004

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Barbara Kasten: Architecture & Film (2015–2020) by Mimi Zeiger, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Stephanie Cristello, Humberto Moro

Barbara Kasten: Architecture & Film (2015–2020)

Mimi Zeiger, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Stephanie Cristello, Humberto Moro

180 pages • hardcover • 2023 user-added

nonfiction art
Building Construction Illustrated by Francis D.K. Ching

Building Construction Illustrated

Francis D.K. Ching

480 pages • paperback

nonfiction technology informative reflective medium-paced
Hierba by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

Hierba

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

488 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction biography graphic novel history dark emotional sad medium-paced
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Anne Applebaum

207 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction history politics informative fast-paced
The Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni

The Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

József Debreczeni

244 pages • digital • 1950 user-added

nonfiction history memoir challenging emotional sad medium-paced
The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War by Jim Sciutto

The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto

368 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction politics medium-paced
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

15 hours, 41 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative medium-paced