2025 Nonfiction Challenge

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23 participants (42 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read at least 12 nonfiction books in 2025.

Challenge Books

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Obsessive about Octopuses by Owen Davey

Obsessive about Octopuses

About Animals #6

Owen Davey

40 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction childrens science informative lighthearted slow-paced
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

283 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

Donovan X. Ramsey

448 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology informative reflective sad medium-paced
Who's That Girl?: A Memoir by Eve

Who's That Girl?: A Memoir

Eve

320 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir music informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women's Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century by Janet Dewart Bell

Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women's Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

Janet Dewart Bell

256 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Driving The Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Alvin Hall

Driving The Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance

Alvin Hall

277 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history race travel informative reflective medium-paced
This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley

This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

Cole Arthur Riley

208 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction religion challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

312 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

391 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Voices of the Turtledoves: The Sacred World of Ephrata by Jeff Bach

Voices of the Turtledoves: The Sacred World of Ephrata

Jeff Bach

281 pages • first pub 2003 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history