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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Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton by Gail Crowther

Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton

Gail Crowther

304 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction biography feminism history emotional informative sad medium-paced
You're Embarrassing Yourself: Stories of Love, Lust, and Movies by Desiree Akhavan

You're Embarrassing Yourself: Stories of Love, Lust, and Movies

Desiree Akhavan

208 pages • paperback • 2024

nonfiction essays memoir emotional funny reflective fast-paced
Great American Sitcoms of the 1950s: How Lucy, Bilko, Peepers, Gracie and Others Defined a Television Genre by Jackson Upperco
Great American Sitcoms of the 1950s: How Lucy, Bilko, Peepers, Gracie and Others Defined a Television Genre
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Jackson Upperco

Great American Sitcoms of the 1950s: How Lucy, Bilko, Peepers, Gracie and Others Defined a Television Genre

Jackson Upperco

297 pages

Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors' Stories of Conversion Therapy by Lucas Wilson

Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors' Stories of Conversion Therapy

Lucas Wilson

192 pages • paperback

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour by James D. Hornfischer

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

James D. Hornfischer

528 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction history informative inspiring slow-paced
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Neil deGrasse Tyson

222 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction science informative fast-paced
Married... With Children vs. the World: The Inside Story of the Shock-Com that Launched FOX and Changed TV Comedy Forever by Richard Gurman

Married... With Children vs. the World: The Inside Story of the Shock-Com that Launched FOX and Changed TV Comedy Forever

Richard Gurman

256 pages

Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods by Danna Staaf

Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods

Danna Staaf

256 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction nature science informative medium-paced
The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness by Jennifer Latson

The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness

Jennifer Latson

304 pages • digital • 2017

nonfiction biography psychology science challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Break Shot: My First 21 Years by James Taylor

Break Shot: My First 21 Years

Audible Original: Words + Music

James Taylor

1 hour, 33 minutes • audio • 2020

nonfiction biography memoir emotional fast-paced