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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The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave by William Wells Brown

The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave

William Wells Brown

116 pages • 1847 • 1 edition

nonfiction biography history adventurous medium-paced
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Amy Wallace, Ed Catmull

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Amy Wallace, Ed Catmull

340 pages • 2009 • 28 editions

nonfiction business informative inspiring medium-paced
The Anxious Generation: How The Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

The Anxious Generation: How The Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt

400 pages • 2024 • 29 editions

nonfiction psychology self help technology informative reflective medium-paced
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Dan Ariely

400 pages • 2008 • 61 editions

nonfiction business economics psychology informative reflective medium-paced
Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World by Catherine Whitlock, Rhodri Evans

Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World

Catherine Whitlock, Rhodri Evans

10h 25m • 2019 • 6 editions

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas by Laura Sook Duncombe

Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas

Laura Sook Duncombe

9h 45m • 2017 • 6 editions

nonfiction feminism history informative inspiring slow-paced
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz

Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage

Stephanie Coontz

15h 34m • 2005 • 6 editions

user-added

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer by Suzanne Wrack
A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer
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Suzanne Wrack

A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer

Suzanne Wrack

257 pages • 1 edition

King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

688 pages • 2023 • 16 editions

nonfiction biography history politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

11h 20m • 2024 • 30 editions

nonfiction history politics technology dark informative tense fast-paced