6 non fiction books for 2025

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73 participants (363 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read six non-fiction books this year, that's one every two months!

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It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Joe Vallese

328 pages • paperback • 2022

nonfiction essays horror lgbtqia+ emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us by Anna Bogutskaya

Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us

Anna Bogutskaya

288 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction horror informative reflective medium-paced
Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life by Miriam Margolyes

Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

Miriam Margolyes

10 hours, 43 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Defy: The Power of No in a World That Demands Yes by Sunita Sah

Defy: The Power of No in a World That Demands Yes

Sunita Sah

280 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction health self help hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist by Sesali Bowen

Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist

Sesali Bowen

6 hours, 31 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction feminism memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by Gary Younge

Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

Gary Younge

304 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction politics sociology true crime challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Scoundrel by Sarah Weinman

Scoundrel

Sarah Weinman

464 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction true crime challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Maria Bamford

288 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction memoir emotional funny informative medium-paced
The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower by Robert Baer

The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower

Robert Baer

9 hours, 47 minutes • audio • 2008 user-added

nonfiction history politics reflective slow-paced
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

441 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction history politics true crime dark informative reflective medium-paced