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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Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap Into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem by

Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap Into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem

12 hours, 34 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction biography science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

11 hours, 22 minutes • audio • 1982

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
Cloistered: My Years as a Nun by Catherine Coldstream

Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

Catherine Coldstream

347 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction memoir religion emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector by Amit Katwala

Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector

Amit Katwala

352 pages • paperback • 2022

nonfiction history true crime dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt

Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

Bill Schutt

8 hours, 56 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction history nature science informative medium-paced
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

bell hooks

8 hours, 55 minutes • audio • 1981

nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
I Don't Need Therapy by Toni Lodge

I Don't Need Therapy

Toni Lodge

5 hours, 34 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction memoir emotional funny reflective fast-paced
The Season: A Social History of the Debutante by Kristen Richardson

The Season: A Social History of the Debutante

Kristen Richardson

9 hours, 52 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Written In Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind by Sue Black

Written In Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

Sue Black

11 hours, 41 minutes • audio • 2020

nonfiction history science dark informative reflective medium-paced
Cult Insanity: A Memoir of Polygamy, Prophets, and Blood Atonement by Irene Spencer

Cult Insanity: A Memoir of Polygamy, Prophets, and Blood Atonement

Irene Spencer

10 hours, 12 minutes • audio • 2009

nonfiction memoir religion dark slow-paced