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 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

5h 41m • 2022 • 19 editions

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 • 1977 • 16 editions

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 • 2023 • 6 editions

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 • 2021 • 3 editions

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

C. S. LEWIS: WRITER, SCHOLAR, SEEKER

Sorina Higgins

2h 36m • 2023 • 1 edition

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nonfiction biography
Rise and Fall of the Borgias by William Landon

The Great Courses

Rise and Fall of the Borgias

William Landon

4h 58m • 2019 • 1 edition

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

Homebody

Theo Parish

224 pages • 2024 • 15 editions

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 • 2024 • 5 editions

nonfiction memoir nature informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Michelle McNamara

10h 11m • 2018 • 64 editions

nonfiction true crime dark informative mysterious medium-paced
Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

Black Girl, Call Home

Jasmine Mans

1h 52m • 2021 • 7 editions

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry challenging emotional reflective fast-paced