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! 

Challenge Books

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The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir by Sarah Ramey

The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir

Sarah Ramey

432 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction health memoir challenging emotional informative slow-paced
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin, Richard Panek

The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

Temple Grandin, Richard Panek

256 pages • digital • 2013

nonfiction psychology science challenging informative medium-paced
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

17 hours, 37 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction history memoir informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Lovely One by Ketanji Brown Jackson

Lovely One

Ketanji Brown Jackson

18 hours, 26 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction memoir informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Amanda Jones

269 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction education memoir politics emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Dan Egan

12 hours, 16 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction history nature science informative reflective slow-paced
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Robert Macfarlane

488 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction nature science adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
The Celts: Search for a Civilization by Alice Roberts

The Celts: Search for a Civilization

Alice Roberts

320 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd

The Living Mountain

The Grampian Quartet #4

Nan Shepherd

160 pages • hardcover • 1977

nonfiction nature travel adventurous inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Tree Almanac 2025: A Seasonal Guide to Understanding the Woodland World by Gabriel Hemery

The Tree Almanac 2025: A Seasonal Guide to Understanding the Woodland World

Gabriel Hemery

368 pages • hardcover

nonfiction nature