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Read 12 Nonfiction Books

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36 participants (86 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Trying to read more nonfiction this year! Any subject, any author, as long as it is nonfiction it counts! Have some true crime, memoirs, and professional development books in mind for myself! 

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The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Anne-Marie O'Connor

The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

Anne-Marie O'Connor

11 hours • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
Mad Madame LaLaurie: New Orleans' Most Famous Murderess Revealed by Victoria Cosner Love, Lorelei Shannon

Mad Madame LaLaurie: New Orleans' Most Famous Murderess Revealed

Victoria Cosner Love, Lorelei Shannon

4 hours, 9 minutes • first pub 2011 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography history true crime challenging informative mysterious slow-paced
Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon by Bronwen Dickey

Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon

Bronwen Dickey

352 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American by Dan Barker, Andrew L. Seidel, Susan Jacoby

The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American

Dan Barker, Andrew L. Seidel, Susan Jacoby

352 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history politics religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Big History of Civilizations by Craig G. Benjamin

The Big History of Civilizations

The Great Courses

Craig G. Benjamin

18 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Robin DiAngelo

154 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction politics race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda

Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France

Leonie Frieda

440 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark

Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide

Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark

304 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir self help true crime emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell

Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era

Jerry Mitchell

432 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction historical history true crime dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World by Alice Roberts

Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World

Alice Roberts

368 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced