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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Introducing RDA: A Guide to the Basics by Chris Oliver

Introducing RDA: A Guide to the Basics

Chris Oliver

117 pages • paperback • 2010

nonfiction reference informative slow-paced
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

Katie Mack

235 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction science challenging informative medium-paced
Digitale Mündigkeit: wie wir mit einer neuen Haltung die Welt retten können by Leena Simon

Digitale Mündigkeit: wie wir mit einer neuen Haltung die Welt retten können

Leena Simon

309 pages

The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes

The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

Chris Hayes

8 hours, 55 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction history politics psychology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

The Salt Path

Raynor Winn

288 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction memoir nature travel emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries from a Hidden World by Aliya Whiteley

The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries from a Hidden World

Aliya Whiteley

208 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction nature science informative slow-paced
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

Judy Batalion

576 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction history emotional informative sad slow-paced
História das heresias e suas refutações by St Alphonsus M. Liguori

História das heresias e suas refutações

St Alphonsus M. Liguori

819 pages • paperback

nonfiction religion dark tense medium-paced
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

6 hours, 50 minutes • audio • 2015

nonfiction psychology self help informative reflective medium-paced
Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka by Daniel Mulilo Chama, Chris Lockhart

Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka

Daniel Mulilo Chama, Chris Lockhart

9 hours, 7 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction true crime dark hopeful sad fast-paced