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
Inventing Ireland: The Literature of a Modern Nation by Declan Kiberd

Inventing Ireland: The Literature of a Modern Nation

Declan Kiberd

719 pages • 1995 • 1 edition

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
AR:RANGE:MENTS by Esther Kondo Heller

AR:RANGE:MENTS

Esther Kondo Heller

74 pages • 2025 • 1 edition

user-added

lgbtqia+ poetry race
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Griffin Dunne

400 pages • 2024 • 8 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional funny reflective medium-paced
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

354 pages • 2006 • 10 editions

nonfiction feminism history emotional reflective slow-paced
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

bell hooks

224 pages • 1994 • 18 editions

nonfiction education feminism informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat by Matt Siegel

The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat

Matt Siegel

5h 30m • 2021 • 4 editions

nonfiction essays food and drink history funny informative fast-paced
Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People by Jeffrey S. Gurock, Deborah Dash Moore, Annie Polland

Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People

Jeffrey S. Gurock, Deborah Dash Moore, Annie Polland

16h 11m • 2017 • 4 editions

user-added

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced
Every Little Thing You Do Is Magic: An Interactive Guide to Tarot, Ritual, and Personal Growth: a Tarot Workbook by Moorea Seal, Callie Little

Every Little Thing You Do Is Magic: An Interactive Guide to Tarot, Ritual, and Personal Growth: a Tarot Workbook

Moorea Seal, Callie Little

175 pages • 1 edition

nonfiction medium-paced
The Trouble with Being Born by E.M. Cioran

The Trouble with Being Born

E.M. Cioran

212 pages • 1973 • 32 editions

nonfiction philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced
Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives by Mejdulene Bernard Shomali

Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali

224 pages • 2023 • 1 edition

nonfiction lgbtqia+ race challenging informative reflective medium-paced