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
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by Dan Koeppel

Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

Dan Koeppel

7 hours, 46 minutes • audio • 2007

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
Ancient Skies: Constellation Mythology of the Greeks by David Weston Marshall

Ancient Skies: Constellation Mythology of the Greeks

David Weston Marshall

4 hours, 25 minutes • audio • 2018

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains by Thomas W. Laqueur

The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains

Thomas W. Laqueur

710 pages • digital • 2015

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
Queen of Thieves: The True Story of Marm Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York by J. North Conway

Queen of Thieves: The True Story of Marm Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York

J. North Conway

7 hours, 19 minutes • audio • 2014

nonfiction crime history true crime informative fast-paced
The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

7 hours, 13 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction art race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins—and WWII Heroes by Tim Brady

Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins—and WWII Heroes

Tim Brady

7 hours • audio • 2021

nonfiction history emotional informative sad medium-paced
Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture by Karen L. Cox

Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture

New Perspectives on the History of the South

Karen L. Cox

6 hours, 50 minutes • audio • 2003 user-added

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

6 hours, 45 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction biography history informative fast-paced
Notes on Nursing by Florence Nightingale

Notes on Nursing

Florence Nightingale

144 pages • paperback • 1858

nonfiction classics history challenging informative medium-paced
Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks

Feminism is for Everybody

bell hooks

4 hours, 28 minutes • audio • 2000

nonfiction feminism politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced