No More Nonficky Nonsense 2025

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42 participants (248 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read at least 12 nonfiction books in 2025!

Challenge Books

All books added
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer

The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

Time Traveller's Guides #2

Ian Mortimer

17 hours, 44 minutes • audio • 2010 user-added

nonfiction historical history informative lighthearted slow-paced
Cheap Old Houses: An Unconventional Guide to Loving and Restoring a Forgotten Home by Ethan Finkelstein, Elizabeth Finkelstein

Cheap Old Houses: An Unconventional Guide to Loving and Restoring a Forgotten Home

Ethan Finkelstein, Elizabeth Finkelstein

287 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction art reference informative inspiring lighthearted fast-paced
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah

8 hours, 44 minutes • audio • 2016

nonfiction memoir race emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough

Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing

Lauren Hough

320 pages • digital • 2021

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir reflective medium-paced
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

Rebecca Solnit

5 hours, 36 minutes • audio • 2004

nonfiction essays history politics hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird by Sy Montgomery

What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird

Sy Montgomery

89 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction nature science informative lighthearted medium-paced
Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

Van Gogh: The Life

Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

976 pages • digital • 2011

nonfiction art biography reflective slow-paced
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

5 hours, 28 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Albert Marrin

Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918

Albert Marrin

210 pages • 2018

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

11 hours, 18 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction business history politics emotional informative sad medium-paced