Reading 25 non-fiction books in 2025

tryingtofindallthebooks Host

11 participants (70 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

All books added
Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools by Mary Annette Pember

Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools

Mary Annette Pember

9 hours, 46 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction history informative reflective sad slow-paced
We Oughta Know: How Four Women Ruled the '90s and Changed Canadian Music by Andrea Warner

We Oughta Know: How Four Women Ruled the '90s and Changed Canadian Music

Andrea Warner

170 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction history music challenging informative reflective slow-paced
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

6 hours, 25 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

15 hours, 4 minutes • audio • 1994

nonfiction history true crime dark informative mysterious medium-paced
Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave by Adam Alter

Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave

Adam Alter

272 pages • digital • 2013

nonfiction psychology science sociology informative reflective slow-paced
Miracle For Jen: A Tragic Accident, A Mother's Desperate Prayer, And Heaven's Extraordinary Answer by Linda Barrick, John R. Perry, Joni Eareckson Tada

Miracle For Jen: A Tragic Accident, A Mother's Desperate Prayer, And Heaven's Extraordinary Answer

Linda Barrick, John R. Perry, Joni Eareckson Tada

280 pages • 2012

nonfiction biography emotional reflective medium-paced
What Were the Salem Witch Trials? by Who HQ, Joan Holub

What Were the Salem Witch Trials?

What was...

Who HQ, Joan Holub

112 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction childrens historical history dark informative sad slow-paced
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

608 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction history politics informative tense medium-paced
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

Jesselyn Cook

272 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction politics emotional informative sad medium-paced
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

Nathalia Holt

352 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction feminism history science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced