Reading 25 non-fiction books in 2025

tryingtofindallthebooks Host

10 participants (49 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

This is definitely aspirational for me, I do not read a lot of non-fiction at all, but about 2 a month sounds somewhat doable?? We'll see!

Challenge Books

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The House of My Mother by Shari Franke

The House of My Mother

Shari Franke

7 hours, 9 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad fast-paced
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses by Dan Carlin

The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

Dan Carlin

7 hours, 55 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy by Alastair Gee, Dani Anguiano

Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy

Alastair Gee, Dani Anguiano

256 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history dark medium-paced
The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston

The Monster of Florence

Douglas Preston

9 hours, 48 minutes • audio • 2008

nonfiction history true crime dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

349 pages • paperback • 2016

nonfiction feminism history mathematics race science informative inspiring slow-paced
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Sam Kean

12 hours, 34 minutes • audio • 2010

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder

Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

Blake Snyder

195 pages • paperback • 2005

nonfiction reference adventurous informative reflective fast-paced
All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind by Kate Winkler Dawson

All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

Kate Winkler Dawson

320 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction history science true crime dark informative medium-paced
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

Jennifer Wright

14 hours, 1 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction biography feminism history informative medium-paced
Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult by Michelle Dowd

Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

Michelle Dowd

7 hours, 15 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction memoir religion challenging emotional reflective medium-paced