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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Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction by Michelle Nijhuis

Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction

Michelle Nijhuis

10 hours, 28 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction history nature informative reflective medium-paced
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Timothy Ferriss

Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

Timothy Ferriss

624 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction business self help informative slow-paced
Country Queers: A Love Letter by Rae Garringer

Country Queers: A Love Letter

Rae Garringer

172 pages • paperback • 2024

nonfiction biography lgbtqia+
Book Towns: Forty Five Paradises of the Printed Word by Alex Johnson

Book Towns: Forty Five Paradises of the Printed Word

Alex Johnson

192 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction travel informative lighthearted slow-paced
Monica: An Ordinary Saint by Gillian Clark

Monica: An Ordinary Saint

Gillian Clark

208 pages • paperback • 2014

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes

Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

Paul Holes

8 hours, 45 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction memoir true crime dark informative reflective medium-paced
Heretic by Jeanna Kadlec

Heretic

Jeanna Kadlec

6 hours, 46 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir religion emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

8 hours, 8 minutes • audio • 2018

nonfiction essays health lgbtqia+ sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar

He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

Schuyler Bailar

11 hours, 15 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does) by Scott Hahn

Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does)

Scott Hahn

175 pages • hardcover • 2014

nonfiction religion informative reflective fast-paced