Read 25 non fiction in 2025!

Starts: Wednesday, 01 January 2025

Ends: Wednesday, 31 December 2025

I like a quarter of my reads to be non fiction and usually read around 100-120 books a year, but you can use this challenge however suits you. Can be any sub genre, any format :)

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Kate Moore

496 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science emotional slow-paced

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Kate Moore

496 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science emotional slow-paced

Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times

272 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction classics literary politics emotional reflective medium-paced

Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times

272 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction classics literary politics emotional reflective medium-paced

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Roxane Gay with Lyz Lenz (Contributor), Miriam Zoila Pérez (Contributor), Elissa Bassist (Contributor), Jill Christman (Contributor), V.L. Seek (Contributor), Lynn Melnick (Contributor), Meredith Talusan (Contributor), So Mayer (Contributor), Vanessa Mártir (Contributor), Nora Salem (Contributor), Zoë Medeiros (Contributor), Aubrey Hirsch (Contributor), Sharisse Tracey (Contributor), Emma Smith-Stevens (Contributor), Stacey May Fowles (Contributor), AJ McKenna (Contributor), Lisa Mecham (Contributor), Michelle Chen (Contributor), xTx (Contributor), Samhita Mukhopadhyay (Contributor), Anthony Frame (Contributor), Claire Schwartz (Contributor), Amy Jo Burns (Contributor), Brandon Taylor (Contributor), Nicole Boyce (Contributor), Liz Rosema (Contributor), Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes (Contributor), Ally Sheedy (Contributor), Gabrielle Union (Contributor)

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism memoir sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay with Lyz Lenz (Contributor), Miriam Zoila Pérez (Contributor), Elissa Bassist (Contributor), Jill Christman (Contributor), V.L. Seek (Contributor), Lynn Melnick (Contributor), Meredith Talusan (Contributor), So Mayer (Contributor), Vanessa Mártir (Contributor), Nora Salem (Contributor), Zoë Medeiros (Contributor), Aubrey Hirsch (Contributor), Sharisse Tracey (Contributor), Emma Smith-Stevens (Contributor), Stacey May Fowles (Contributor), AJ McKenna (Contributor), Lisa Mecham (Contributor), Michelle Chen (Contributor), xTx (Contributor), Samhita Mukhopadhyay (Contributor), Anthony Frame (Contributor), Claire Schwartz (Contributor), Amy Jo Burns (Contributor), Brandon Taylor (Contributor), Nicole Boyce (Contributor), Liz Rosema (Contributor), Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes (Contributor), Ally Sheedy (Contributor), Gabrielle Union (Contributor)

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism memoir sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All by Shon Faye

The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All
Shon Faye

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced

The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All

Shon Faye

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay

326 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced

Bad Feminist

Roxane Gay

326 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Layla Saad

238 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

Layla Saad

238 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Mary L. Trump

240 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir politics challenging reflective sad medium-paced

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

Mary L. Trump

240 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir politics challenging reflective sad medium-paced

Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer

Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask
Anton Treuer

184 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction essays history informative reflective slow-paced

Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask

Anton Treuer

184 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction essays history informative reflective slow-paced

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
Politics of Place #1

Tim Marshall

256 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Politics of Place #1

Tim Marshall

256 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced

The Penguin History of the World by J.M. Roberts, Odd Arne Westad

The Penguin History of the World
J.M. Roberts, Odd Arne Westad

1189 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction history reference challenging informative slow-paced

The Penguin History of the World

J.M. Roberts, Odd Arne Westad

1189 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction history reference challenging informative slow-paced

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