6 non fiction books for 2025

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66 participants (175 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read six non-fiction books this year, that's one every two months!

Challenge Books

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Fake by Stephanie Wood

Fake

Stephanie Wood

352 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction crime memoir reflective slow-paced
The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne by Kate Winkler Dawson

The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne

Kate Winkler Dawson

9 hours, 34 minutes • first pub 2025 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative mysterious medium-paced
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

Robin Wall Kimmerer

1 hour, 56 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction economics essays nature science hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced
Baustellen der Nation by Ulf Buermeyer, Philip Banse

Baustellen der Nation

Ulf Buermeyer, Philip Banse

384 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction economics politics informative reflective medium-paced
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Emergent Strategy #0

adrienne maree brown

280 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics informative reflective slow-paced
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

Rebecca Traister

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics reflective slow-paced
The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry by Eileen Horne, Gwen Adshead

The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry

Eileen Horne, Gwen Adshead

377 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction psychology sociology true crime challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef

Son of Hamas

Mosab Hassan Yousef

265 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay

Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Victoria Finlay

512 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative reflective medium-paced
The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir by Sarah Ramey

The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir

Sarah Ramey

432 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction health memoir challenging emotional informative slow-paced