Read Non-Fiction in 2025

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16 participants (165 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Join me in challenging yourself to read 12 (or more!) Non-Fiction books throughout 2025.

Challenge Books

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Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out by Gracie Gold

Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out

Gracie Gold

466 pages • 2024 • 7 editions

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nonfiction memoir sports emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
L. E. L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated female Byron by Lucasta Miller

L. E. L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated female Byron

Lucasta Miller

416 pages • 5 editions

nonfiction biography feminism history poetry reflective slow-paced
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

184 pages • 2020 • 18 editions

nonfiction essays nature informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb

18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

Bruce Goldfarb

360 pages • 2020 • 10 editions

nonfiction history science true crime informative slow-paced
Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science by Erin Zimmerman

Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science

Erin Zimmerman

262 pages • 2024 • 2 editions

nonfiction memoir nature science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England by Ed West

1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England

Ed West

184 pages • 2017 • 4 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian by W. Kamau Bell

The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian

W. Kamau Bell

347 pages • 2017 • 8 editions

nonfiction memoir funny reflective medium-paced
AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State by Charles Freeman

AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State

Charles Freeman

256 pages • 2008 • 1 edition

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Against Civility: The Hidden Racism in Our Obsession with Civility by Alex Zamalin

Against Civility: The Hidden Racism in Our Obsession with Civility

Alex Zamalin

172 pages • 2021 • 5 editions

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nonfiction history politics race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell

Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

432 pages • 2023 • 20 editions

nonfiction history funny informative lighthearted medium-paced