Reading 25 non-fiction books in 2025

tryingtofindallthebooks Host

10 participants (47 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

This is definitely aspirational for me, I do not read a lot of non-fiction at all, but about 2 a month sounds somewhat doable?? We'll see!

Challenge Books

All books added
Sociopath: a Memoir by Patric Gagne

Sociopath: a Memoir

Patric Gagne

347 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir dark informative medium-paced
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Amanda Montell

309 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction feminism sociology informative reflective medium-paced
Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell by Tom Clavin

Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell

Tom Clavin

10 hours, 18 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore

The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

Kate Moore

14 hours, 40 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

Janice P. Nimura

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism history informative inspiring slow-paced
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

538 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative tense slow-paced
White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy by Paul Waldman, Tom Schaller

White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

Paul Waldman, Tom Schaller

320 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race sociology informative reflective medium-paced
Hairless: Breaking the Vicious Circle of Hair Removal, Submission and Self-Hatred by Bel Olid

Hairless: Breaking the Vicious Circle of Hair Removal, Submission and Self-Hatred

Bel Olid

63 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism sociology informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
The House of My Mother by Shari Franke

The House of My Mother

Shari Franke

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

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad fast-paced
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses by Dan Carlin

The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

Dan Carlin

7 hours, 55 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced