20 Non-Fiction Books

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23 participants (138 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

My goal is to read 20 non-fiction books in 2025! Do it with me! 

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Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence by Yaroslav Trofimov

Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence

Yaroslav Trofimov

12 hours, 11 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction history politics dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts, and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching

The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts, and Other Literary Curiosities from History

Edward Brooke-Hitching

256 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history reference adventurous slow-paced
Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen by Richard Wunderli

Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen

Richard Wunderli

176 pages • paperback

nonfiction history
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 by G. J. Meyer

A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918

G. J. Meyer

missing duration info • audio

nonfiction history medium-paced
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

362 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

Nick Srnicek

245 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction economics philosophy politics informative reflective slow-paced
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science

Sam Kean

384 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction history science true crime informative medium-paced
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

A Brief History Series

Yuval Noah Harari

528 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction history sociology technology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Erik Larson

13 hours, 5 minutes • audio • 2015

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe by Rachel Chrastil

Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

Rachel Chrastil

485 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced