Reading 25 non-fiction books in 2025

tryingtofindallthebooks Host

10 participants (34 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
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Sam Kean

12 hours, 34 minutes • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder

Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

Blake Snyder

195 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction reference adventurous informative reflective fast-paced
All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind by Kate Winkler Dawson

All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

Kate Winkler Dawson

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history science true crime dark informative medium-paced
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

Jennifer Wright

14 hours, 1 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism history informative medium-paced
Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult by Michelle Dowd

Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

Michelle Dowd

7 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir religion challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love by Brit Barron

Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love

Brit Barron

3 hours, 36 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Hallie Rubenhold

10 hours, 19 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

247 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson

American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

Kate Winkler Dawson

10 hours, 43 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history science true crime informative medium-paced
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

Colin Dickey

10 hours, 47 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history dark slow-paced