No More Nonficky Nonsense 2025

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44 participants (287 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read at least 12 nonfiction books in 2025!

Challenge Books

All books added
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah

8 hours, 44 minutes • audio • 2016

nonfiction memoir race emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough

Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing

Lauren Hough

320 pages • digital • 2021

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir reflective medium-paced
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

Rebecca Solnit

5 hours, 36 minutes • audio • 2004

nonfiction essays history politics hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird by Sy Montgomery

What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird

Sy Montgomery

89 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction nature science informative lighthearted medium-paced
Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

Van Gogh: The Life

Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

976 pages • digital • 2011

nonfiction art biography reflective slow-paced
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

5 hours, 28 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Albert Marrin

Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918

Albert Marrin

210 pages • 2018

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

11 hours, 18 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction business history politics emotional informative sad medium-paced
How to Cook The Victorian Way with Mrs Crocombe by Annie Gray, Andrew Hann

How to Cook The Victorian Way with Mrs Crocombe

Annie Gray, Andrew Hann

272 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction food and drink history informative lighthearted medium-paced
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham

Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

Elyse Graham

396 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction history politics medium-paced