Nonfiction 2025

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15 participants (178 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

The goal is to read 50 nonfiction books in the year of 2025! Any kind or length count so join me in challenging yourself this year. 

Challenge Books

All books added
The Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People by Paul White, Gary Chapman

The Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People

Paul White, Gary Chapman

272 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction business self help informative slow-paced
Let Love Have the Last Word: A Memoir by Common

Let Love Have the Last Word: A Memoir

Common

224 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir music emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced
Sorry Not Sorry by Alyssa Milano

Sorry Not Sorry

Alyssa Milano

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Hope for Cynics by Jamil Zaki

Hope for Cynics

Jamil Zaki

7 hours, 52 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction psychology hopeful informative medium-paced
Birds Aren't Real: The True Story of Mass Avian Murder and the Largest Surveillance Campaign in US History by Peter McIndoe, Connor Gaydos

Birds Aren't Real: The True Story of Mass Avian Murder and the Largest Surveillance Campaign in US History

Peter McIndoe, Connor Gaydos

3 hours, 50 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction politics funny medium-paced
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

5 hours, 41 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir race science emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 by David McCullough

The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914

David McCullough

704 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories by Sarah Viren

To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories

Sarah Viren

304 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Plagues and Pencils: A Year of Pandemic Sketches by Edward Carey

Plagues and Pencils: A Year of Pandemic Sketches

Edward Carey

237 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction art adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
C. S. LEWIS: WRITER, SCHOLAR, SEEKER by Sorina Higgins

C. S. LEWIS: WRITER, SCHOLAR, SEEKER

Sorina Higgins

2 hours, 36 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography