6 non fiction books for 2025

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73 participants (368 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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How Fiction Works by James Wood

How Fiction Works

James Wood

265 pages • 2008

nonfiction reference challenging reflective slow-paced
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly

Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates

David Cordingly

296 pages • paperback • 1995

nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

112 pages • paperback • 1929

nonfiction classics essays feminism informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Leave The Capital: A History Of Manchester Music In 13 Recordings by Paul Hanley

Leave The Capital: A History Of Manchester Music In 13 Recordings

Paul Hanley

216 pages • 2017

nonfiction history music informative fast-paced
A Vindication of the Rights of Men & A Vindication of the Rights of Woman & An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution by Janet Todd, Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Men & A Vindication of the Rights of Woman & An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution

Janet Todd, Mary Wollstonecraft

413 pages • paperback • 1993

nonfiction classics feminism philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly

Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

Helena Kelly

417 pages • digital • 2016

nonfiction biography feminism history reflective slow-paced
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

Angela Saini

224 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction feminism history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
How to be a Craftivist: The Art of Gentle Protest by Sarah Corbett

How to be a Craftivist: The Art of Gentle Protest

Sarah Corbett

320 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction memoir politics hopeful informative reflective slow-paced
It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation by Anna Dahlqvist

It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

Anna Dahlqvist

256 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction feminism challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

352 pages • hardcover • 2010

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced