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
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

490 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction science emotional informative medium-paced
Drafted: An Illustrated Memoir of a Veteran's Service During the War in Vietnam by Rick Parker, Rick Parker

Drafted: An Illustrated Memoir of a Veteran's Service During the War in Vietnam

Rick Parker, Rick Parker

250 pages • missing pub info (editions)

fiction graphic novel memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
A Different Kind of Normal: My Real-Life Completely True Story about Being Unique by Abigail Balfe

A Different Kind of Normal: My Real-Life Completely True Story about Being Unique

Abigail Balfe

240 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction memoir middle grade emotional funny reflective medium-paced
This Will Be Funny Later by Jenny Pentland

This Will Be Funny Later

Jenny Pentland

10 hours, 32 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction memoir
Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles

Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Kathryn Miles

9 hours, 10 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction true crime challenging dark informative medium-paced
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

10 hours, 26 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

Liza Mundy

14 hours, 4 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history informative inspiring slow-paced
Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap Into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem by

Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap Into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem

12 hours, 34 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

11 hours, 22 minutes • first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
Cloistered: My Years as a Nun by Catherine Coldstream

Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

Catherine Coldstream

347 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir religion emotional informative reflective medium-paced