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Read more nonfiction 2025

theayeaye Host

16 participants (101 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

History, memoirs, essays and academic texts — let's understand our world and times a little better. 

Challenge Books

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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Steven Johnson

299 pages • hardcover • 2006

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
The Coming Storm by Michael Lewis

The Coming Storm

Michael Lewis

2 hours, 27 minutes • audio • 2018

nonfiction politics science challenging informative medium-paced
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson

14 hours, 58 minutes • audio • 2003

nonfiction history true crime dark informative mysterious slow-paced
Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s by Jennifer Worth

Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s

The Midwife Trilogy #1

Jennifer Worth

340 pages • hardcover • 2002

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Medical Mysteries Across History by Roy Benaroch

Medical Mysteries Across History

Roy Benaroch

4 hours, 49 minutes • audio • 2020

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Pérez

448 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction feminism gender science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Nothing Compares 2 U: An Oral History of Prince by Touré
Nothing Compares 2 U: An Oral History of Prince
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Touré

Nothing Compares 2 U: An Oral History of Prince

Touré

288 pages • hardcover • 2021

informative reflective medium-paced
You are Not Alone: Michael: Through a Brother's Eyes by Jermaine Jackson

You are Not Alone: Michael: Through a Brother's Eyes

Jermaine Jackson

464 pages • 2011

nonfiction biography music emotional reflective slow-paced
The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie by Carla Valentine

The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie

Carla Valentine

403 pages • paperback • 2021

nonfiction biography science true crime informative medium-paced
Quantum Bullsh*t: How to Ruin Your Life with Advice from Quantum Physics by Chris Ferrie

Quantum Bullsh*t: How to Ruin Your Life with Advice from Quantum Physics

Chris Ferrie

6 hours • audio • 2023 user-added

nonfiction science challenging informative medium-paced