25 in 25: Nonfiction

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43 participants (507 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

The goal is to read 25 nonfiction books in 2025. The books can be about any topic, but must be nonfiction.

Challenge Books

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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

8h 41m • 2024 • 13 editions

nonfiction essays memoir sports emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown

14h 20m • 1970 • 78 editions

nonfiction classics history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock

Dina Gilio-Whitaker

224 pages • 2019 • 8 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Rashid Khalidi

10h 30m • 2020 • 60 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir by Rajiv Mohabir

Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir

Rajiv Mohabir

338 pages • 2021 • 3 editions

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nonfiction autobiography lgbtqia+ memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

Elaine Scarry

385 pages • 1985 • 6 editions

nonfiction philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Susan Sontag

183 pages • 1978 • 44 editions

nonfiction essays philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine by Ricardo Nuila

The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine

Ricardo Nuila

370 pages • 2023 • 4 editions

nonfiction health sociology emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

Regarding the Pain of Others

Susan Sontag

115 pages • 2003 • 43 editions

nonfiction essays philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

391 pages • 2013 • 57 editions

nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced