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Read 12 Nonfiction Books 2025

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17 participants (71 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read a few more nonfiction books this year.

Challenge Books

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The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home by Sadia Shepard

The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home

Sadia Shepard

364 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir challenging reflective slow-paced
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General by Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly

Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

The Killing Series #4

Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly

368 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative tense medium-paced
67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence by Howard Means

67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence

Howard Means

288 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot by Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly

Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

The Killing Series #2

Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly

325 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
Black Saturday: An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on Israel and the War in Gaza by Trey Yingst

Black Saturday: An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on Israel and the War in Gaza

Trey Yingst

338 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction
The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II by Denis Avey

The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II

Denis Avey

264 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional sad slow-paced
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

165 pages • first pub 1946 (editions)

nonfiction memoir psychology informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

My Bondage and My Freedom

The Autobiographies #2

Frederick Douglass

426 pages • first pub 1855 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography classics challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II by Leah Garrett

X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II

Leah Garrett

368 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history medium-paced
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

Derecka Purnell

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced