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

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown with Grover Gardner (Narrator)

14 hours, 20 minutes • audio • 1970 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction classics history challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown with Grover Gardner (Narrator)

14 hours, 20 minutes • audio • 1970

nonfiction classics history challenging informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction classics history challenging informative reflective medium-paced

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon with Homi K. Bhabha (Contributor), Richard Philcox (Translator), Jean-Paul Sartre (Contributor), Cornel West (Contributor)

349 pages • digital • 1961 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon with Homi K. Bhabha (Contributor), Richard Philcox (Translator), Jean-Paul Sartre (Contributor), Cornel West (Contributor)

349 pages • digital • 1961

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates with Ta-Nehisi Coates (Narrator)

5 hours, 21 minutes • audio • 2024 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction essays politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates with Ta-Nehisi Coates (Narrator)

5 hours, 21 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction essays politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction essays politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition by Nat Smith, Eric A. Stanley

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition
Nat Smith, Eric A. Stanley with CeCe McDonald

425 pages • digital • 2011 (editions)

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition by Nat Smith, Eric A. Stanley

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition

Nat Smith, Eric A. Stanley with CeCe McDonald

425 pages • digital • 2011

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall with Mikki Kendall (Narrator)

6 hours, 58 minutes • audio • 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall with Mikki Kendall (Narrator)

6 hours, 58 minutes • audio • 2020

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib

312 pages • hardcover • 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history music race emotional informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction history music race emotional informative reflective medium-paced

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

312 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction history music race emotional informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction history music race emotional informative reflective medium-paced

The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier

The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
Camille Fournier

244 pages • paperback • 2017 (editions)

nonfiction business informative inspiring fast-paced

nonfiction business informative inspiring fast-paced

The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier

The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

Camille Fournier

244 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction business informative inspiring fast-paced

nonfiction business informative inspiring fast-paced

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by Matt Eversmann, James Patterson

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians
Matt Eversmann, James Patterson with Tom Force (Narrator), Jennifer Pickens (Narrator), Nancy Peterson, Rob Reider (Narrator), Daniel Henning (Narrator), Jane Oppenheimer (Narrator), Susan Hanfield (Narrator), Amy Jensen (Narrator), Deanna Anthony (Narrator), Marni Penning (Narrator), Jenn Lee (Narrator)

7 hours, 55 minutes • audio • 2024 (editions)

nonfiction biography lighthearted fast-paced

nonfiction biography lighthearted fast-paced

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by Matt Eversmann, James Patterson

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians

Matt Eversmann, James Patterson with Tom Force (Narrator), Jennifer Pickens (Narrator), Nancy Peterson, Rob Reider (Narrator), Daniel Henning (Narrator), Jane Oppenheimer (Narrator), Susan Hanfield (Narrator), Amy Jensen (Narrator), Deanna Anthony (Narrator), Marni Penning (Narrator), Jenn Lee (Narrator)

7 hours, 55 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction biography lighthearted fast-paced

nonfiction biography lighthearted fast-paced

Sociopath by Patric Gagne

Sociopath
Patric Gagne with Patric Gagne (Narrator)

11 hours, 6 minutes • audio • 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir dark informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction memoir dark informative reflective medium-paced

Sociopath by Patric Gagne

Sociopath

Patric Gagne with Patric Gagne (Narrator)

11 hours, 6 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction memoir dark informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction memoir dark informative reflective medium-paced

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
Brad Ricca

432 pages • hardcover • 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography history true crime challenging informative mysterious slow-paced

nonfiction biography history true crime challenging informative mysterious slow-paced

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

432 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction biography history true crime challenging informative mysterious slow-paced

nonfiction biography history true crime challenging informative mysterious slow-paced

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