No More Nonficky Nonsense 2025

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39 participants (191 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read at least 12 nonfiction books in 2025!

Challenge Books

All books added
Cheap Old Houses: An Unconventional Guide to Loving and Restoring a Forgotten Home by Elizabeth Finkelstein, Ethan Finkelstein

Cheap Old Houses: An Unconventional Guide to Loving and Restoring a Forgotten Home

Elizabeth Finkelstein, Ethan Finkelstein

287 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction art reference
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah

8 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction memoir race emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough

Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing

Lauren Hough

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir reflective medium-paced
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

Rebecca Solnit

5 hours, 36 minutes • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction essays history politics hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird by Sy Montgomery

What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird

Sy Montgomery

96 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction nature science informative lighthearted medium-paced
Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

Van Gogh: The Life

Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

976 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction art biography reflective slow-paced
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

5 hours, 28 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Albert Marrin

Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918

Albert Marrin

210 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba

10 hours, 42 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics race hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

11 hours, 18 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction business history politics challenging emotional informative medium-paced