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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Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions by Jason Travis Ott

Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions

Jason Travis Ott

256 pages • 2 editions

nonfiction literary reference medium-paced
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It by Greg Marshall

Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

Greg Marshall

9h 49m • 2023 • 7 editions

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir emotional funny reflective medium-paced
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

The Yellow House

Sarah M. Broom

376 pages • 2019 • 8 editions

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

Brené Brown

326 pages • 2021 • 17 editions

nonfiction psychology self help informative reflective medium-paced
The Story of Art without Men by Katy Hessel

The Story of Art without Men

Katy Hessel

512 pages • 2022 • 19 editions

nonfiction art history challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things by Josh Clark, Chuck Bryant

Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things

Josh Clark, Chuck Bryant

9h • 2020 • 7 editions

nonfiction history science informative lighthearted slow-paced
Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close by Hannah Carlson

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Hannah Carlson

6h 38m • 2023 • 3 editions

nonfiction history emotional reflective medium-paced
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Insider's Edition) by Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Insider's Edition)

Anthony Bourdain

362 pages • 2000 • 59 editions

nonfiction food and drink memoir funny informative reflective fast-paced
Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction by Gabrielle Moss

Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction

Gabrielle Moss

255 pages • 2018 • 7 editions

nonfiction essays funny informative lighthearted fast-paced
Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death by Madison Reyes, Spencer Henry

Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death

Madison Reyes, Spencer Henry

224 pages • 2024 • 6 editions

nonfiction sociology funny informative lighthearted fast-paced