Read 5 non-fiction books in 2025

rena_rena Host

28 participants (63 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

If you're like me and read mostly fiction but want to get more into non-fiction, this challenge is for you.

Challenge Books

All books added
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

Milk and Honey

Rupi Kaur

204 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction feminism poetry emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced
Home Body by Rupi Kaur

Home Body

Rupi Kaur

188 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism poetry emotional reflective medium-paced
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation

Eli Clare

216 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

7 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings

Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen

Jazz Jennings

272 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced
The White Album by Joan Didion

The White Album

Joan Didion

223 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction essays history informative reflective medium-paced
The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court by Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller

The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court

Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller

8 hours, 1 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

352 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction nature science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles

Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World

Rosalind Miles

12 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 1988 (editions) user-added

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative slow-paced
I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya

I'm Afraid of Men

Vivek Shraya

85 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender lgbtqia+ memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced