Read 12 Nonfiction Books 2025

hvitrulfhild Host

17 participants (71 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read a few more nonfiction books this year.

Challenge Books

All books added
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
Understanding Trump by Newt Gingrich

Understanding Trump

Newt Gingrich

368 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics informative reflective slow-paced
Dale Evans Rogers: Rainbow on a Hard Trail by Dale Evans Rogers, Norman B. Rohrer

Dale Evans Rogers: Rainbow on a Hard Trail

Dale Evans Rogers, Norman B. Rohrer

141 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction biography emotional reflective sad medium-paced
How to Cure a Ghost by Fariha Róisín

How to Cure a Ghost

Fariha Róisín

160 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry psychology challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz

Postcolonial Love Poem

Natalie Díaz

105 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University by

Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University

280 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction education history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich

A Little History of the World

Little Histories

E.H. Gombrich

284 pages • first pub 1935 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured by Kathryn Harrison

Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured

Kathryn Harrison

382 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Black Friend by Ziwe

Black Friend

Ziwe

182 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction essays race funny inspiring reflective fast-paced
Out Cold: A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia by Philip Jaekl

Out Cold: A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia

Philip Jaekl

8 hours, 52 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced