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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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander

Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking

Douglas R. Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander

578 pages • hardcover • 2011

nonfiction philosophy psychology science challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan B. Peterson

Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

Jordan B. Peterson

564 pages • paperback • 1999

nonfiction philosophy psychology religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice by Fredrik deBoer

The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice

Fredrik deBoer

8 hours, 1 minutes • audio • 2020

nonfiction education psychology reflective slow-paced
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

Ethan Watters

307 pages • paperback • 2009

nonfiction history psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
A New Moon by Brandy Norwood

A New Moon

Brandy Norwood

1 hour, 11 minutes • audio

nonfiction memoir informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced
Love in Exile by Shon Faye

Love in Exile

Shon Faye

256 pages • digital • 2025

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ memoir sociology reflective medium-paced
Smokey Robinson: Grateful and Blessed by Smokey Robinson

Smokey Robinson: Grateful and Blessed

Audible Original: Words + Music

Smokey Robinson

1 hour, 35 minutes • audio • 2020

nonfiction memoir music emotional funny reflective medium-paced
How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker by Eve Smith

How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker

Eve Smith

304 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction memoir funny informative fast-paced
Women Who Kill by Ann Jones

Women Who Kill

Ann Jones

546 pages • digital • 1980 user-added

nonfiction crime history true crime challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik

Didion and Babitz

Lili Anolik

384 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction biography informative reflective medium-paced