Read 25 non fiction in 2025!

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25 participants (297 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

I like a quarter of my reads to be non fiction and usually read around 100-120 books a year, but you can use this challenge however suits you. Can be any sub genre, any format :)

Challenge Books

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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

312 pages • paperback • 2004

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

352 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction art history informative inspiring medium-paced
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial by Janet Malcolm

Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial

Janet Malcolm

168 pages • digital • 2011

nonfiction crime true crime challenging dark informative medium-paced
Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain by Blessin Adams

Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain

Blessin Adams

304 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction history true crime dark informative medium-paced
Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do by Wallace J. Nichols

Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do

Wallace J. Nichols

9 hours, 36 minutes • audio • 2014 user-added

nonfiction nature psychology science informative slow-paced
A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future by Benjamin Vogt

A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future

Benjamin Vogt

192 pages • 2017

nonfiction nature philosophy informative reflective medium-paced
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Janet Malcolm

213 pages • paperback • 1993

nonfiction biography poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz by Tom Gilbert, Coyne S. Sanders

Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

Tom Gilbert, Coyne S. Sanders

386 pages • paperback • 1993

nonfiction biography reflective slow-paced
The Autist's Guide to the Galaxy: navigating the world of ‘normal' people by Clara Törnvall

The Autist's Guide to the Galaxy: navigating the world of ‘normal' people

Clara Törnvall

192 pages • digital • 2023

nonfiction psychology self help sociology funny informative reflective medium-paced
Laughs, Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time by Jess Oppenheimer

Laughs, Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time

Jess Oppenheimer

280 pages • digital • 1996

nonfiction biography memoir funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced