For the Love of a Good Book - 2025

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11 participants (879 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

The goal is to read 100 books of your choice in 2025. Books must be at least 100 pages in length. Please use this challenge to document your choices and share your experiences. 

Challenge Books

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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert

319 pages • 2014 • 64 editions

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast by Andrew Blum

The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast

Andrew Blum

203 pages • 2019 • 10 editions

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nonfiction history science technology challenging informative slow-paced
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England by Carol F. Karlsen

The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England

Carol F. Karlsen

370 pages • 1987 • 6 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan

353 pages • 2005 • 22 editions

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nonfiction history dark informative sad medium-paced
Rewilding the Urban Soul: Searching for the Wild in the City by Claire Dunn

Rewilding the Urban Soul: Searching for the Wild in the City

Claire Dunn

336 pages • 2021 • 3 editions

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nonfiction nature informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth: How to Live with Care and Purpose in an Endangered World by Kate Schapira

Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth: How to Live with Care and Purpose in an Endangered World

Kate Schapira

256 pages • 2024 • 4 editions

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nonfiction nature science hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England by Gemma Hollman

Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England

Gemma Hollman

376 pages • 2019 • 10 editions

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nonfiction historical history emotional informative slow-paced
A Plague upon Humanity: The Hidden History of Japan's Biological Warfare Program by Daniel Barenblatt

A Plague upon Humanity: The Hidden History of Japan's Biological Warfare Program

Daniel Barenblatt

304 pages • 2004 • 2 editions

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
The Magic of Marie Laveau: Embracing the Spiritual Legacy of the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans by Denise Alvarado

The Magic of Marie Laveau: Embracing the Spiritual Legacy of the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans

Denise Alvarado

359 pages • 2020 • 4 editions

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nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience by Emerson W. Baker

A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience

Emerson W. Baker

416 pages • 2014 • 5 editions

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nonfiction history challenging dark informative slow-paced