Read 12 Nonfiction Books

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38 participants (104 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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Mad Madame LaLaurie: New Orleans' Most Famous Murderess Revealed by Victoria Cosner Love, Lorelei Shannon

Mad Madame LaLaurie: New Orleans' Most Famous Murderess Revealed

Victoria Cosner Love, Lorelei Shannon

4 hours, 9 minutes • audio • 2011 user-added

nonfiction biography history true crime challenging informative mysterious slow-paced
Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon by Bronwen Dickey

Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon

Bronwen Dickey

352 pages • hardcover • 2016

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

The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American

Dan Barker, Andrew L. Seidel, Susan Jacoby

352 pages • 2019

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

The Big History of Civilizations

The Great Courses

Craig G. Benjamin

18 pages • 2016

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 • paperback • 2018

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 • paperback • 2002

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

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

Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark

304 pages • hardcover • 2019

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 • hardcover • 2020

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 • paperback • 2017

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

272 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad fast-paced