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

All books added
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

336 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative slow-paced
West with the Night by Beryl Markham

West with the Night

Beryl Markham

8 hours, 57 minutes • first pub 1942 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir reflective slow-paced
Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding a True Faith by April Ajoy

Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding a True Faith

April Ajoy

8 hours, 4 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics religion hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

King Leopold's Ghost

Adam Hochschild

12 hours, 34 minutes • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging dark informative medium-paced
Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex) by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

Nadia Bolz-Weber

224 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism religion challenging informative reflective fast-paced
On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books by Karen Swallow Prior

On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books

Karen Swallow Prior

8 hours, 46 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions) user-added

nonfiction education informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women by Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, Jane Smiley, Kate Bolick

March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women

Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, Jane Smiley, Kate Bolick

4 hours, 9 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions) user-added

nonfiction essays feminism informative fast-paced
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown

Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

Vincent Brown

11 hours, 12 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

6 hours, 5 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir psychology funny informative reflective medium-paced
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals

Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

Melba Pattillo Beals

336 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced