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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Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer

Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask

Anton Treuer

184 pages • paperback • 2012

nonfiction essays history informative reflective slow-paced
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Politics of Place #1

Tim Marshall

292 pages • hardcover • 2015

nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced
The Penguin History of the World by Odd Arne Westad, J.M. Roberts

The Penguin History of the World

Odd Arne Westad, J.M. Roberts

1189 pages • paperback • 1976

nonfiction history reference challenging informative slow-paced
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by Susan Wise Bauer

The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

Susan Wise Bauer

432 pages • hardcover • 2003

nonfiction education reference informative medium-paced
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder

David Grann

329 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction history true crime adventurous dark informative medium-paced
Untamed by Glennon Doyle

Untamed

Glennon Doyle

337 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir self help emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Kate Moore

481 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction biography history science emotional informative sad medium-paced
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

544 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction history science adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Know My Name

Chanel Miller

368 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad

The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

Nadia Murad

12 hours, 16 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction memoir politics emotional informative sad medium-paced