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Read 12 Nonfiction Books

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42 participants (213 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Trying to read more nonfiction this year! Any subject, any author, as long as it is nonfiction it counts! Have some true crime, memoirs, and professional development books in mind for myself! 

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Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon by Bronwen Dickey

Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon

Bronwen Dickey

352 pages • 2016 • 7 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American by Susan Jacoby, Andrew L. Seidel, Dan Barker

The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American

Susan Jacoby, Andrew L. Seidel, Dan Barker

352 pages • 2019 • 7 editions

nonfiction history politics religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Big History of Civilizations by Craig G. Benjamin

The Great Courses

The Big History of Civilizations

Craig G. Benjamin

18 pages • 2016 • 2 editions

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Robin DiAngelo

154 pages • 2018 • 27 editions

nonfiction politics race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda

Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France

Leonie Frieda

440 pages • 2002 • 20 editions

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Georgia Hardstark, Karen Kilgariff

Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide

Georgia Hardstark, Karen Kilgariff

304 pages • 2019 • 19 editions

nonfiction memoir self help true crime emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell

Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era

Jerry Mitchell

432 pages • 2020 • 6 editions

nonfiction historical history true crime dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World by Alice Roberts

Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World

Alice Roberts

368 pages • 2017 • 10 editions

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley

From Here to the Great Unknown

Lisa Marie Presley

281 pages • 2024 • 33 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Quest and Crew by David Beaupre

Quest and Crew #1

Quest and Crew

David Beaupre

248 pages • 2014 • 1 edition

nonfiction travel adventurous informative fast-paced