Read 12 Nonfiction Books

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42 participants (265 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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Work It Out: A Mood-Boosting Exercise Guide for People Who Just Want to Lie Down by Sarah Kurchak

Work It Out: A Mood-Boosting Exercise Guide for People Who Just Want to Lie Down

Sarah Kurchak

207 pages • paperback • 2023

nonfiction health self help informative inspiring medium-paced
Wie Demokratien sterben by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt

Wie Demokratien sterben

Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt

473 pages • digital • 2018 user-added

nonfiction politics
Orações selecionadas de Santo Afonso Maria de Ligório by Saint Alphonsus de Liguori

Orações selecionadas de Santo Afonso Maria de Ligório

Saint Alphonsus de Liguori

129 pages • digital user-added

nonfiction religion
Good Entertainment: A Deconstruction of the Western Passion Narrative by Byung-Chul Han

Good Entertainment: A Deconstruction of the Western Passion Narrative

Byung-Chul Han

144 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction philosophy reflective medium-paced
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel

The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

Michael J. Sandel

288 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction philosophy politics informative reflective medium-paced
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

The Woman in Me

Britney Spears

277 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction memoir music emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

7 hours, 23 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
I'm That Girl: Living the Power of My Dreams by Jordan Chiles

I'm That Girl: Living the Power of My Dreams

Jordan Chiles

7 hours, 25 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction memoir sports emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Albert Camus

212 pages • paperback • 1942

nonfiction classics essays philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

George Saunders

432 pages • digital • 2021

nonfiction classics literary short stories challenging informative inspiring slow-paced