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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Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis

Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service

Michael Lewis

258 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction essays history politics informative inspiring medium-paced
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

Dave Grohl

10 hours, 35 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction memoir music funny inspiring reflective medium-paced
Sellout: The Major Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore by Dan Ozzi

Sellout: The Major Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore

Dan Ozzi

416 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction music informative reflective medium-paced
Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo by Andy Greenwald

Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo

Andy Greenwald

336 pages • 2003

nonfiction history music funny reflective medium-paced
From the Basement: A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society by Natasha Van Duser, Taylor Markarian

From the Basement: A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society

Natasha Van Duser, Taylor Markarian

226 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction history music emotional reflective medium-paced
The Templars: Knights of Christ by Régine Pernoud

The Templars: Knights of Christ

Régine Pernoud

157 pages • 1974

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Unsere Welt neu denken: Eine Einladung by Maja Göpel

Unsere Welt neu denken: Eine Einladung

Maja Göpel

208 pages • paperback

nonfiction essays nature politics informative reflective medium-paced
How to Be a Bad Botanist by Simon Barnes

How to Be a Bad Botanist

Simon Barnes

288 pages • paperback • 2004

nonfiction nature
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Philip Gourevitch

355 pages • paperback • 1998

nonfiction history emotional informative sad slow-paced
Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do by Eve Rodsky

Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do

Eve Rodsky

7 hours, 54 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction self help challenging emotional informative medium-paced