Nonfiction 2025

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19 participants (373 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

The goal is to read 50 nonfiction books in the year of 2025! Any kind or length count so join me in challenging yourself this year. 

Challenge Books

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Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying by Sallie Tisdale

Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

Sallie Tisdale

256 pages • 2018 • 7 editions

nonfiction philosophy science informative reflective slow-paced
The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction--And a Search for Relief by Tom Zeller Jr.

The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction--And a Search for Relief

Tom Zeller Jr.

336 pages • 2025 • 1 edition

nonfiction health science
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture by June Thomas

A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture

June Thomas

6h 53m • 2024 • 8 editions

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ informative reflective medium-paced
National Geographic the Greeks: An Illustrated History by Diane Harris Cline

National Geographic the Greeks: An Illustrated History

Diane Harris Cline

224 pages • 2016 • 3 editions

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King by Ian Mortimer

The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King

Ian Mortimer

480 pages • 2007 • 5 editions

user-added

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Slayers, Every One of Us: How One Girl in All the World Showed Us How to Hold On by Jenny Owen Youngs, Kristin Russo

Slayers, Every One of Us: How One Girl in All the World Showed Us How to Hold On

Jenny Owen Youngs, Kristin Russo

208 pages • 2025 • 4 editions

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir emotional funny reflective medium-paced
If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury by Geraldine DeRuiter

If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

Geraldine DeRuiter

336 pages • 2024 • 7 editions

nonfiction essays feminism food and drink memoir informative reflective medium-paced
An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo

An American Sunrise: Poems

Joy Harjo

129 pages • 2019 • 7 editions

nonfiction history poetry race emotional reflective medium-paced
The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About by Mel Robbins

The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About

Mel Robbins

336 pages • 2024 • 23 editions

nonfiction self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

Wright Thompson

448 pages • 2024 • 10 editions

nonfiction history true crime dark emotional informative medium-paced