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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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How to Be a Bad Botanist by Simon Barnes

How to Be a Bad Botanist

Simon Barnes

288 pages • 2004 • 5 editions

nonfiction nature
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Philip Gourevitch

355 pages • 1998 • 25 editions

nonfiction history emotional informative sad slow-paced
Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do by Eve Rodsky

Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do

Eve Rodsky

7h 54m • 2019 • 21 editions

nonfiction self help challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Talking to Canadians by Rick Mercer

Talking to Canadians

Rick Mercer

10h 5m • 2021 • 5 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Into the Madness: A Killer's Game, a Woman's Obsession, a Dark Conspiracy by Trevor Aaronson, Trevor Aaronson

Into the Madness: A Killer's Game, a Woman's Obsession, a Dark Conspiracy

Trevor Aaronson, Trevor Aaronson

4h 31m • 1 edition

nonfiction crime memoir adventurous dark tense fast-paced
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven

Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic

Jennifer Niven

431 pages • 2003 • 10 editions

nonfiction biography history adventurous slow-paced
Catalogação no plural by Naira Christofoletti Silveira, Eliane Serrão Alves Mey

Catalogação no plural

Naira Christofoletti Silveira, Eliane Serrão Alves Mey

217 pages • 2009 • 1 edition

informative mysterious tense medium-paced
Connie: A Memoir by Connie Chung

Connie: A Memoir

Connie Chung

11h 35m • 2024 • 4 editions

nonfiction memoir informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
If You Live to 100, You Might as Well Be Happy: Essays on Ordinary Joy by Rhee Kun Hoo

If You Live to 100, You Might as Well Be Happy: Essays on Ordinary Joy

Rhee Kun Hoo

208 pages • 2024 • 6 editions

nonfiction self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers by Marta McDowell

Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers

Marta McDowell

5h 10m • 2023 • 4 editions

nonfiction history nature science true crime informative slow-paced