Read 20 Nonfiction Books!

mackmays Host

28 participants (241 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Can be anything nonfiction. The goal is to read 20 nonfiction books in 2025.

Challenge Books

All books added
Greek Mythology Explained: A Deeper Look at Classical Greek Lore and Myth by David Ramenah, Marios Christou

Greek Mythology Explained: A Deeper Look at Classical Greek Lore and Myth

David Ramenah, Marios Christou

10 hours, 23 minutes • audio • 2018 user-added

nonfiction history adventurous informative medium-paced
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery by Richard Hollingham

Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Richard Hollingham

8 hours, 32 minutes • audio • 2008

nonfiction history dark informative reflective fast-paced
12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next. by Jeanette Winterson

12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next.

Jeanette Winterson

9 hours • audio • 2021

nonfiction essays challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

Peter Godfrey-Smith

255 pages • paperback • 2016

nonfiction philosophy science informative reflective medium-paced
The Gulag Archipelago, Abridged Edition by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago, Abridged Edition

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 #1-7

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

23 hours, 29 minutes • audio • 1973

nonfiction classics history challenging dark reflective slow-paced
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West by Catherine Belton

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West

Catherine Belton

656 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction history politics dark informative slow-paced
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León

Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

Jason De León

367 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction biography politics dark informative reflective medium-paced
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail by Jason De León

The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail

California Public Anthropology

Jason De León

384 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction history politics emotional reflective slow-paced
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern by Jean Marie Wiesen

Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern

Jean Marie Wiesen

224 pages • hardcover • 2025 user-added

nonfiction
The Killer Across the Table by John E. Douglas

The Killer Across the Table

John E. Douglas

340 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction psychology true crime dark informative slow-paced