Read Non-Fiction in 2025

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16 participants (49 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Join me in challenging yourself to read 12 (or more!) Non-Fiction books throughout 2025.

Challenge Books

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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes, Joe Layden

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

Cary Elwes, Joe Layden

272 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir funny informative lighthearted fast-paced
Ashes To Admin by Evie King

Ashes To Admin

Evie King

8 hours, 50 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr

A Short History of Queer Women

Kirsty Loehr

4 hours, 1 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ funny informative fast-paced
Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out by Gracie Gold

Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out

Gracie Gold

466 pages • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

nonfiction memoir sports emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Shock of the New: The Hundred=Year History of Modern Art by Robert Hughes

The Shock of the New: The Hundred=Year History of Modern Art

Robert Hughes

734 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction art informative reflective slow-paced
L. E. L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated female Byron by Lucasta Miller

L. E. L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated female Byron

Lucasta Miller

416 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism history poetry reflective slow-paced
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

184 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays nature informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb

18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

Bruce Goldfarb

360 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history science true crime informative slow-paced
Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science by Erin Zimmerman

Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science

Erin Zimmerman

262 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir nature science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England by Ed West

1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England

Ed West

184 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced