Read 12 Nonfiction Books

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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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Fifty Plants That Changed the Course of History by Bill Laws

Fifty Plants That Changed the Course of History

Bill Laws

223 pages • hardcover • 2010

nonfiction history nature science informative slow-paced
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

128 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction history politics informative reflective fast-paced
The Improv Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond by Tom Salinsky, Deborah Frances-White

The Improv Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond

Tom Salinsky, Deborah Frances-White

425 pages • paperback • 2008

nonfiction funny slow-paced
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

William Dalrymple

536 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

Rashid Khalidi

338 pages • digital • 2020

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

The Complete Maus

Maus #1-2

Art Spiegelman

296 pages • paperback • 1986

nonfiction graphic novel history dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy

The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews

Peter Duffy

302 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction biography history adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

Malcolm Gladwell

352 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction psychology informative medium-paced
Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception by George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller

288 pages • hardcover • 2015

nonfiction business economics psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen Moss

Ten Birds That Changed the World

Stephen Moss

9 hours, 56 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction nature informative reflective medium-paced