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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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

6h 45m • 2017 • 7 editions

nonfiction biography history informative fast-paced
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

Jesmyn Ward

5h 36m • 2016 • 14 editions

nonfiction essays poetry race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Saidiya Hartman

10h 5m • 2019 • 17 editions

nonfiction feminism history lgbtqia+ race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

Ruha Benjamin

13h 24m • 2022 • 5 editions

nonfiction memoir politics race hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
The LGBTQ + History Book by D.K. Publishing

Big Ideas

The LGBTQ + History Book

D.K. Publishing

336 pages • 2023 • 9 editions

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ informative slow-paced
Pollution Is Colonialism by Max Liboiron

Pollution Is Colonialism

Max Liboiron

5h 42m • 2021 • 6 editions

nonfiction nature politics science challenging informative medium-paced
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney

13h 21m • 1972 • 25 editions

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion by Meera Shah

You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion

Meera Shah

304 pages • 2020 • 5 editions

nonfiction feminism emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night by Tahir Hamut Izgil

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

Tahir Hamut Izgil

7h 41m • 2023 • 11 editions

nonfiction autobiography memoir race religion emotional informative sad medium-paced
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringiyimana, Abigail Pesta

How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

Sandra Uwiringiyimana, Abigail Pesta

304 pages • 2017 • 8 editions

nonfiction memoir challenging emotional informative medium-paced