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Nonfiction 2025

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15 participants (190 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

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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Dan Ariely

400 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction business economics psychology informative reflective medium-paced
Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World by Rhodri Evans, Catherine Whitlock

Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World

Rhodri Evans, Catherine Whitlock

10 hours, 25 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas by Laura Sook Duncombe

Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas

Laura Sook Duncombe

9 hours, 45 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history informative inspiring slow-paced
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz

Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage

Stephanie Coontz

15 hours, 34 minutes • first pub 2005 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer by Suzanne Wrack
A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer
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Suzanne Wrack

A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer

Suzanne Wrack

257 pages • missing pub info (editions)

King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

688 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

11 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history politics technology dark informative tense fast-paced
Poems of Phillis Wheatley by Phillis Wheatley

Poems of Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

108 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

179 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

nonfiction classics essays race challenging reflective slow-paced
Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong by Patrick M. Markey, Christopher J. Ferguson

Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong

Patrick M. Markey, Christopher J. Ferguson

6 hours, 45 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction psychology sociology video games adventurous challenging informative slow-paced