Read 12 Nonfiction Books

bookishbillijean Host

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!

Read 12 Nonfiction Books

bookishbillijean Host

42 participants (213 books)

STARTS: 01 Jan 2025ENDS: 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!

Challenge Books

All books added

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Albert Camus with Justin O'Brien (Translator)

212 pages • paperback • 1942 (editions)

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nonfiction classics essays philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Albert Camus with Justin O'Brien (Translator)

212 pages • paperback • 1942

nonfiction classics essays philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced

nonfiction classics essays philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George Saunders

432 pages • digital • 2021 (editions)

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nonfiction classics literary short stories challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

George Saunders

432 pages • digital • 2021

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nonfiction classics literary short stories challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

Let's talk about Sex, Habibi by Mohamed Amjahid

Let's talk about Sex, Habibi
Mohamed Amjahid

224 pages • paperback • 2022 (editions)

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nonfiction health funny informative reflective medium-paced

Let's talk about Sex, Habibi by Mohamed Amjahid

Let's talk about Sex, Habibi

Mohamed Amjahid

224 pages • paperback • 2022

nonfiction health funny informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction health funny informative reflective medium-paced

Alles nur Einzelfälle? Das System hinter der Polizeigewalt by Mohamed Amjahid

Alles nur Einzelfälle? Das System hinter der Polizeigewalt
Mohamed Amjahid

320 pages • paperback • 2024 (editions)

nonfiction politics informative reflective fast-paced

nonfiction politics informative reflective fast-paced

Alles nur Einzelfälle? Das System hinter der Polizeigewalt by Mohamed Amjahid

Alles nur Einzelfälle? Das System hinter der Polizeigewalt

Mohamed Amjahid

320 pages • paperback • 2024

nonfiction politics informative reflective fast-paced

nonfiction politics informative reflective fast-paced

How to Ru(i)n a Record Label: The Story of Lookout Records by Larry Livermore

How to Ru(i)n a Record Label: The Story of Lookout Records
Larry Livermore

291 pages • 2015 (editions)

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nonfiction history music informative slow-paced

How to Ru(i)n a Record Label: The Story of Lookout Records by Larry Livermore

How to Ru(i)n a Record Label: The Story of Lookout Records

Larry Livermore

291 pages • 2015

nonfiction history music informative slow-paced

nonfiction history music informative slow-paced

Gender Queer: A Memoir Deluxe Edition by Maia Kobabe

Gender Queer: A Memoir Deluxe Edition
Maia Kobabe with Phoebe Kobabe (Illustrator)

256 pages • hardcover • 2019 (editions)

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nonfiction gender graphic novel lgbtqia+ memoir emotional informative reflective fast-paced

Gender Queer: A Memoir Deluxe Edition by Maia Kobabe

Gender Queer: A Memoir Deluxe Edition

Maia Kobabe with Phoebe Kobabe (Illustrator)

256 pages • hardcover • 2019

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nonfiction gender graphic novel lgbtqia+ memoir emotional informative reflective fast-paced

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

The Library Book
Susan Orlean

319 pages • hardcover • 2018 (editions)

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nonfiction history true crime informative medium-paced

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

The Library Book

319 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction history true crime informative medium-paced

nonfiction history true crime informative medium-paced

Como catequizar os rudes by Saint Aurelius Augustinus

Como catequizar os rudes
Saint Aurelius Augustinus with Domenico Schmidt (Translator)

104 pages • paperback (editions) user-added

nonfiction history religion dark mysterious medium-paced

nonfiction history religion dark mysterious medium-paced

Como catequizar os rudes by Saint Aurelius Augustinus

Como catequizar os rudes

Saint Aurelius Augustinus with Domenico Schmidt (Translator)

104 pages • paperback user-added

nonfiction history religion dark mysterious medium-paced

nonfiction history religion dark mysterious medium-paced

I Hope You Remember: Poems on Loving, Longing, and Living by Josie Balka

I Hope You Remember: Poems on Loving, Longing, and Living
Josie Balka

176 pages • hardcover • 2025 (editions)

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nonfiction poetry emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

I Hope You Remember: Poems on Loving, Longing, and Living by Josie Balka

I Hope You Remember: Poems on Loving, Longing, and Living

176 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction poetry emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

nonfiction poetry emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and my Father, Warren Jeffs by Rachel Jeffs

Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and my Father, Warren Jeffs
Rachel Jeffs

8 hours, 3 minutes • audio • 2017 (editions)

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nonfiction memoir religion true crime dark emotional sad medium-paced

Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and my Father, Warren Jeffs by Rachel Jeffs

Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and my Father, Warren Jeffs

8 hours, 3 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction memoir religion true crime dark emotional sad medium-paced

nonfiction memoir religion true crime dark emotional sad medium-paced

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