Nonfiction 2025

naomisbookshelf's profile picture naomisbookshelf Host

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
Hope for Cynics by Jamil Zaki

Hope for Cynics

Jamil Zaki

7 hours, 52 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction psychology hopeful informative medium-paced
Birds Aren't Real: The True Story of Mass Avian Murder and the Largest Surveillance Campaign in US History by Peter McIndoe, Connor Gaydos

Birds Aren't Real: The True Story of Mass Avian Murder and the Largest Surveillance Campaign in US History

Peter McIndoe, Connor Gaydos

3 hours, 50 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction politics funny medium-paced
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

5 hours, 41 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir race science emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 by David McCullough

The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914

David McCullough

704 pages • hardcover • 1977

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories by Sarah Viren

To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories

Sarah Viren

304 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Plagues and Pencils: A Year of Pandemic Sketches by Edward Carey

Plagues and Pencils: A Year of Pandemic Sketches

Edward Carey

237 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction art adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
C. S. LEWIS: WRITER, SCHOLAR, SEEKER by Sorina Higgins

C. S. LEWIS: WRITER, SCHOLAR, SEEKER

Sorina Higgins

2 hours, 36 minutes • audio • 2023 user-added

nonfiction biography
Rise and Fall of the Borgias by William Landon

Rise and Fall of the Borgias

The Great Courses

William Landon

4 hours, 58 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction history dark informative tense slow-paced
Homebody by Theo Parish

Homebody

Theo Parish

224 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction graphic novel lgbtqia+ memoir young adult emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced
The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

314 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction memoir nature informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced