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

All books added
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

7 hours, 15 minutes • audio • 1984

nonfiction business psychology self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World by Peter Brannen

The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World

Peter Brannen

512 pages • digital • 2025

nonfiction nature science
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

Kirk Wallace Johnson

336 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction history true crime informative mysterious medium-paced
Sociopath by Patric Gagne

Sociopath

Patric Gagne

11 hours, 6 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction memoir dark informative reflective medium-paced
How to Stitch an American Dream: A Story of Family, Faith and the Power of Giving by Jenny Doan

How to Stitch an American Dream: A Story of Family, Faith and the Power of Giving

Jenny Doan

5 hours, 20 minutes • audio • 2021 user-added

nonfiction autobiography biography memoir emotional funny slow-paced
Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America

Barbara Ehrenreich

235 pages • hardcover • 2009

nonfiction politics psychology sociology informative reflective medium-paced
Quite the Contrary by Yvonne durant

Quite the Contrary

Yvonne durant

1 hour, 54 minutes • audio

nonfiction emotional medium-paced
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us about Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today by Elizabeth Comen

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us about Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Elizabeth Comen

13 hours, 25 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction feminism health history informative reflective medium-paced
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough

Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt

David McCullough

445 pages • paperback • 1981

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie

Surfacing

Kathleen Jamie

256 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction essays nature travel informative reflective slow-paced