Read 25 non fiction in 2025!

shontellereads Host

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 :)

Read 25 non fiction in 2025!

shontellereads Host

25 participants (297 books)

STARTS: 01 Jan 2025ENDS: 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

All books added

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Heather McGhee

446 pages • paperback • 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

446 pages • paperback • 2021

nonfiction politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child by Telaina Eriksen

Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child
Telaina Eriksen

220 pages • paperback • 2017 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective slow-paced

nonfiction lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective slow-paced

Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child by Telaina Eriksen

Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child

Telaina Eriksen

220 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective slow-paced

nonfiction lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective slow-paced

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Reza Aslan

296 pages • hardcover • 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history religion challenging medium-paced

nonfiction biography history religion challenging medium-paced

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

296 pages • hardcover • 2013

nonfiction biography history religion challenging medium-paced

nonfiction biography history religion challenging medium-paced

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer

390 pages • paperback • 2013 (editions)

nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

390 pages • paperback • 2013

nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

Radical Hope by Caro De Robertis

Radical Hope
Caro De Robertis

272 pages • paperback • 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

nonfiction essays politics emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Radical Hope by Caro De Robertis

Radical Hope

Caro De Robertis

272 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction essays politics emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

nonfiction essays politics emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Roxane Gay with Lyz Lenz (Contributor), Miriam Zoila Pérez (Contributor), Elissa Bassist (Contributor), Jill Christman (Contributor), V.L. Seek (Contributor), Lynn Melnick (Contributor), Meredith Talusan (Contributor), So Mayer (Contributor), Vanessa Mártir (Contributor), Nora Salem (Contributor), Zoë Medeiros (Contributor), Aubrey Hirsch (Contributor), Sharisse Tracey (Contributor), Emma Smith-Stevens (Contributor), Stacey May Fowles (Contributor), AJ McKenna (Contributor), Lisa Mecham (Contributor), Michelle Chen (Contributor), xTx (Contributor), Samhita Mukhopadhyay (Contributor), Anthony Frame (Contributor), Claire Schwartz (Contributor), Amy Jo Burns (Contributor), Brandon Taylor (Contributor), Nicole Boyce (Contributor), Liz Rosema (Contributor), Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes (Contributor), Ally Sheedy (Contributor), Gabrielle Union (Contributor)

368 pages • paperback • 2018 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism memoir sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

nonfiction essays feminism memoir sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay with Lyz Lenz (Contributor), Miriam Zoila Pérez (Contributor), Elissa Bassist (Contributor), Jill Christman (Contributor), V.L. Seek (Contributor), Lynn Melnick (Contributor), Meredith Talusan (Contributor), So Mayer (Contributor), Vanessa Mártir (Contributor), Nora Salem (Contributor), Zoë Medeiros (Contributor), Aubrey Hirsch (Contributor), Sharisse Tracey (Contributor), Emma Smith-Stevens (Contributor), Stacey May Fowles (Contributor), AJ McKenna (Contributor), Lisa Mecham (Contributor), Michelle Chen (Contributor), xTx (Contributor), Samhita Mukhopadhyay (Contributor), Anthony Frame (Contributor), Claire Schwartz (Contributor), Amy Jo Burns (Contributor), Brandon Taylor (Contributor), Nicole Boyce (Contributor), Liz Rosema (Contributor), Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes (Contributor), Ally Sheedy (Contributor), Gabrielle Union (Contributor)

368 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction essays feminism memoir sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

nonfiction essays feminism memoir sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All by Shon Faye

The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All
Shon Faye

320 pages • paperback • 2021 (editions)

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced

The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All by Shon Faye

The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All

320 pages • paperback • 2021

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay

326 pages • paperback • 2014 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction essays feminism memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Bad Feminist

326 pages • paperback • 2014

nonfiction essays feminism memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction essays feminism memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Layla Saad

238 pages • hardcover • 2020 (editions)

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

238 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Mary L. Trump

240 pages • hardcover • 2020 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir politics challenging reflective sad medium-paced

nonfiction biography memoir politics challenging reflective sad medium-paced

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

240 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction biography memoir politics challenging reflective sad medium-paced

nonfiction biography memoir politics challenging reflective sad medium-paced

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