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Read 12 Nonfiction Books

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42 participants (256 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Trying to read more nonfiction this year! Any subject, any author, as long as it is nonfiction it counts! Have some true crime, memoirs, and professional development books in mind for myself! 

Challenge Books

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Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It by Andre M. Perry

Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It

Andre M. Perry

6 hours, 21 minutes • audio • 2025 user-added

nonfiction race sociology informative reflective medium-paced
How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence by Matt Richtel

How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence

Matt Richtel

9 hours, 5 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Jessica Fern

268 pages • digital • 2020

nonfiction lgbtqia+ psychology self help sociology informative slow-paced
You Didn't Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip by Kelsey McKinney

You Didn't Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

Kelsey McKinney

7 hours, 14 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction essays sociology funny informative reflective medium-paced
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

34 hours, 8 minutes • audio • 1980

nonfiction history politics reference challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz

Postcolonial Love Poem

Natalie Díaz

105 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

Maus #1

Art Spiegelman

159 pages • hardcover • 1986

nonfiction graphic novel history memoir dark emotional sad medium-paced
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream by Megan Greenwell

Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

Megan Greenwell

8 hours, 51 minutes • audio • 2025 user-added

nonfiction business history challenging informative medium-paced
Torn in Two: The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell and One Man's Survival on the Open Sea by Michael Schumacher

Torn in Two: The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell and One Man's Survival on the Open Sea

Michael Schumacher

200 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction history emotional informative sad slow-paced
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Kit Heyam

8 hours, 2 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction gender history lgbtqia+ informative reflective medium-paced