12 Non-fiction Books in 2025

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21 participants (182 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Try to tackle one non-fiction every month!

Challenge Books

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Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Sabrina Strings

7 hours, 26 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America by Talia Lavin

Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

Talia Lavin

9 hours, 46 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction history politics religion challenging informative medium-paced
Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and my Father, Warren Jeffs by Rachel Jeffs

Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and my Father, Warren Jeffs

Rachel Jeffs

8 hours, 3 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction memoir religion true crime dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

John Green

10 hours, 42 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction essays memoir hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science by Erika Engelhaupt

Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

Erika Engelhaupt

336 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction science funny informative fast-paced
Vietdamned: How the World's Greatest Minds Put America on Trial by Clive Webb

Vietdamned: How the World's Greatest Minds Put America on Trial

Clive Webb

320 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction history
Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

Hillary Rodham Clinton

13 hours, 37 minutes • audio • 2024 user-added

nonfiction memoir
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think by Jennifer Ackerman

The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

Jennifer Ackerman

11 hours, 54 minutes • audio • 2020

nonfiction nature science informative medium-paced
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong

14 hours, 17 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction nature science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

Antony Loewenstein

265 pages • digital • 2023

nonfiction history politics technology challenging dark informative medium-paced