Read 5 non-fiction books in 2025

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29 participants (84 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

If you're like me and read mostly fiction but want to get more into non-fiction, this challenge is for you.

Challenge Books

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The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph E. Stiglitz

The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society

Joseph E. Stiglitz

384 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction business economics politics
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman

Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation

Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman

16 hours, 5 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays history politics challenging reflective fast-paced
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

The Complete Persepolis

Persepolis #1-4

Marjane Satrapi

341 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction graphic novel memoir emotional informative reflective fast-paced
Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History by William T. Taylor

Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History

William T. Taylor

360 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history nature medium-paced
Japan: The Natural History of an Asian Archipelago by Mark Brazil

Japan: The Natural History of an Asian Archipelago

Mark Brazil

384 pages • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

Elisabeth Rosenthal

656 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction health politics challenging informative medium-paced
Theory Of 5 2019 by Melissa Verplank

Theory Of 5 2019

Melissa Verplank

141 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

informative medium-paced
Sounds Like Titanic by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

Sounds Like Titanic

Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

256 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir music challenging medium-paced
White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems by Mary Oliver

White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems

Mary Oliver

72 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction nature poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

James W. Loewen

383 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction education history challenging informative reflective slow-paced