Read 25 non fiction books in 2025

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9 participants (54 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read 25 non fiction books in 2025.

Challenge Books

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Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences by Alfred L. Martin, Jr.

Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences

Alfred L. Martin, Jr.

232 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson, Tuulikki Pietilä

Notes from an Island

Tove Jansson, Tuulikki Pietilä

83 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir reflective relaxing slow-paced
The Boy from Clearwater: Book 1 by Yu Pei-Yun

The Boy from Clearwater: Book 1

The Boy from Clearwater #1

Yu Pei-Yun

352 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography graphic novel emotional informative sad fast-paced
Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire by Abolition Collective

Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire

Abolition: Journal of Insurgent Politics #2

Abolition Collective

272 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson

352 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir middle grade poetry race emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

The Soul of a Woman

Isabel Allende

174 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
We've Got to Try: How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible by Beto O'Rourke

We've Got to Try: How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible

Beto O'Rourke

5 hours, 25 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Mountains of Light: Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite by R. Mark Liebenow

Mountains of Light: Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite

R. Mark Liebenow

192 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction reflective slow-paced
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World by Edward Dolnick

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World

Edward Dolnick

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

nonfiction history nature science informative reflective medium-paced
In Gad We Trust by Josh Gad

In Gad We Trust

Josh Gad

8 hours, 4 minutes • first pub 2025 (editions)

nonfiction memoir