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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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

William Kamkwamba

270 pages • 2012 • 46 editions

nonfiction biography science hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Malala Yousafzai

327 pages • 2013 • 194 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring medium-paced
The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative by Mary Prince

The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative

Mary Prince

69 pages • 1831 • 32 editions

nonfiction biography classics history challenging emotional informative medium-paced
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen

The Copenhagen Trilogy #1-3

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency

Tove Ditlevsen

384 pages • 2000 • 48 editions

nonfiction memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig

Notes on a Nervous Planet

Matt Haig

288 pages • 2018 • 54 editions

nonfiction health psychology self help informative reflective fast-paced
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

5h 41m • 2022 • 25 editions

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir race science emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

640 pages • 2010 • 34 editions

nonfiction history race emotional informative reflective slow-paced
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

ReVisioning American History

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

296 pages • 2014 • 16 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

638 pages • 1994 • 81 editions

nonfiction autobiography history challenging inspiring reflective slow-paced
She Memes Well by Quinta Brunson

She Memes Well

Quinta Brunson

293 pages • 2021 • 8 editions

nonfiction essays memoir funny reflective medium-paced