25 non fictions for 2025

hhm013 Host

12 participants (169 books)

01 Jan 2025—01 Jan 2026

Overview

Reading non fiction books for the current year 

Challenge Books

All books added
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 by Garrett M. Graff

The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001

Garrett M. Graff

15 hours, 55 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction history emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America by Elie Mystal

Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America

Elie Mystal

248 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction politics
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade by Ann Fessler

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade

Ann Fessler

12 hours, 38 minutes • audio • 2006

nonfiction feminism history emotional reflective slow-paced
Rabbit: A Memoir by Patricia Williams, Jeannine Amber

Rabbit: A Memoir

Patricia Williams, Jeannine Amber

240 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction biography memoir emotional inspiring sad medium-paced
Authoritarian Populism and the Challenges for News Journalism: A Discourse Approach by Mats Ekström, Marianna Patrona

Authoritarian Populism and the Challenges for News Journalism: A Discourse Approach

Mats Ekström, Marianna Patrona

186 pages • digital • 2024 user-added

nonfiction politics sociology
Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything by Colette Shade

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything

Colette Shade

256 pages • digital • 2025

nonfiction essays history sociology emotional funny informative medium-paced
Cane Fire by Shani Mootoo

Cane Fire

Shani Mootoo

128 pages • digital • 2022 user-added

fiction lgbtqia+ poetry emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Orientalism

Edward W. Said

396 pages • paperback • 1978

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Rebecca Hall

220 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction feminism graphic novel history race informative reflective medium-paced
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

334 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction essays memoir sports emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced