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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Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown

Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

Vincent Brown

11 hours, 12 minutes • audio • 2020 user-added

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

6 hours, 5 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction memoir psychology funny informative reflective medium-paced
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals

Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

Melba Pattillo Beals

336 pages • paperback • 1994

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

490 pages • digital • 2022

nonfiction science emotional informative medium-paced
Drafted: An Illustrated Memoir of a Veteran's Service During the War in Vietnam by Rick Parker, Rick Parker

Drafted: An Illustrated Memoir of a Veteran's Service During the War in Vietnam

Rick Parker, Rick Parker

250 pages • hardcover

fiction graphic novel memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
A Different Kind of Normal: My Real-Life Completely True Story about Being Unique by Abigail Balfe

A Different Kind of Normal: My Real-Life Completely True Story about Being Unique

Abigail Balfe

240 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction memoir middle grade emotional funny reflective medium-paced
This Will Be Funny Later by Jenny Pentland

This Will Be Funny Later

Jenny Pentland

10 hours, 32 minutes • audio • 2022 user-added

nonfiction memoir
Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles

Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Kathryn Miles

9 hours, 10 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction true crime challenging dark informative medium-paced
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

10 hours, 26 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

Liza Mundy

14 hours, 4 minutes • audio • 2018

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced