Read 12 Nonfiction Books

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42 participants (266 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! 

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You're Not Dying You're Just Waking Up by Elizabeth April

You're Not Dying You're Just Waking Up

Elizabeth April

201 pages • digital • 2021

nonfiction informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power by Eleanor Herman

Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power

Eleanor Herman

10 hours, 57 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction history sociology informative reflective medium-paced
Data Baby by Susannah Breslin

Data Baby

Susannah Breslin

215 pages • digital • 2023 user-added

nonfiction autobiography memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin

Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life

The Happiness Project #2

Gretchen Rubin

8 hours, 17 minutes • audio • 2012

nonfiction memoir self help adventurous medium-paced
Nature's Calendar: The British Year in 72 Seasons by Kiera Chapman, Rowan Jaines

Nature's Calendar: The British Year in 72 Seasons

Kiera Chapman, Rowan Jaines

382 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction nature
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

16 hours, 44 minutes • audio • 2013

nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan

The Demon-Haunted World

Carl Sagan

480 pages • paperback • 1996

nonfiction philosophy religion science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal, Julie Li

Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

Nir Eyal, Julie Li

274 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction psychology self help reflective fast-paced
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

320 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction business memoir technology funny informative lighthearted fast-paced
Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet; Library Edition by John G. Turner
Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet; Library Edition
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John G. Turner

Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet; Library Edition

John G. Turner

19 hours, 36 minutes • audio • 2012

nonfiction autobiography biography informative reflective slow-paced