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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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition) by Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition)

Anthony Bourdain

312 pages • paperback • 2000

nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective fast-paced
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones

Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King

Dan Jones

14 hours, 41 minutes • audio user-added

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective fast-paced
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Amanda Montell

309 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction feminism sociology informative reflective medium-paced
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

17 hours, 17 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction history politics informative tense medium-paced
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Pérez

438 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction feminism gender science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir

The Life of Elizabeth I

Alison Weir

560 pages • paperback • 1998

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

9 hours, 33 minutes • audio • 2020

nonfiction nature science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Hairy Queen: Warum Körperbehaarung politisch ist by Franziska Setare Koohestani

Hairy Queen: Warum Körperbehaarung politisch ist

Franziska Setare Koohestani

224 pages • paperback • 2024

nonfiction feminism politics sociology informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

266 pages • digital • 2018

nonfiction essays health lgbtqia+ sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Blood in My Eye by George L. Jackson

Blood in My Eye

George L. Jackson

195 pages • digital • 1972

nonfiction essays history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced