Read 25 non fiction in 2025!

shontellereads Host

24 participants (231 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

I like a quarter of my reads to be non fiction and usually read around 100-120 books a year, but you can use this challenge however suits you. Can be any sub genre, any format :)

Read 25 non fiction in 2025!

shontellereads Host

24 participants (231 books)

STARTS: 01 Jan 2025ENDS: 31 Dec 2025

Overview

I like a quarter of my reads to be non fiction and usually read around 100-120 books a year, but you can use this challenge however suits you. Can be any sub genre, any format :)

Challenge Books

All books added

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert

319 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert

319 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-first Century
Alice Wong with Ellen Samuels, Mari Ramsawakh, Jessica Slice, Talila A. Lewis, Eugene Grant, Sky Cubacub, Keshia Scott, A.H. Reaume, Vanessa Raditz, Ariel Henley, Jamison Hill, Zipporah Arielle, Patty Berne, Wanda Díaz-Merced, Jillian Weise, Sandy Ho, Harriet Tubman Collective, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Reyma McCoy McDied, Britney Wilson, Harriet McBryde Johnson, Maysoon Zayid, Elsa Sjunneson, Jen Deerinwater, Ricardo T. Thornton, Haben Girma, Alice Sheppard, Shoshana Kessock, Diana Cejas, June Eric-Udorie, Jeremy Woody, Keah Brown, Rebecca Cokley, S.E. Smith, Christie Thompson, Karolyn Gehrig, Liz Moore, Stacey Milbern, Lateef McLeod

336 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction essays sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-first Century

Alice Wong with Ellen Samuels, Mari Ramsawakh, Jessica Slice, Talila A. Lewis, Eugene Grant, Sky Cubacub, Keshia Scott, A.H. Reaume, Vanessa Raditz, Ariel Henley, Jamison Hill, Zipporah Arielle, Patty Berne, Wanda Díaz-Merced, Jillian Weise, Sandy Ho, Harriet Tubman Collective, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Reyma McCoy McDied, Britney Wilson, Harriet McBryde Johnson, Maysoon Zayid, Elsa Sjunneson, Jen Deerinwater, Ricardo T. Thornton, Haben Girma, Alice Sheppard, Shoshana Kessock, Diana Cejas, June Eric-Udorie, Jeremy Woody, Keah Brown, Rebecca Cokley, S.E. Smith, Christie Thompson, Karolyn Gehrig, Liz Moore, Stacey Milbern, Lateef McLeod

336 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction essays sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced

The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor

The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times
Adrienne Mayor

361 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor

The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times

361 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver, Barbara Kingsolver

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver, Barbara Kingsolver with Camille Kingsolver (Narrator), Steven L. Hopp (Narrator), Barbara Kingsolver (Narrator)

14 hours, 35 minutes • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink memoir informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

nonfiction food and drink memoir informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver, Barbara Kingsolver

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver, Barbara Kingsolver with Camille Kingsolver (Narrator), Steven L. Hopp (Narrator), Barbara Kingsolver (Narrator)

14 hours, 35 minutes • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink memoir informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

nonfiction food and drink memoir informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Basic Mathematics: An Introduction by Alan Graham

Basic Mathematics: An Introduction
Alan Graham

304 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction mathematics reference informative medium-paced

nonfiction mathematics reference informative medium-paced

Basic Mathematics: An Introduction by Alan Graham

Basic Mathematics: An Introduction

304 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction mathematics reference informative medium-paced

nonfiction mathematics reference informative medium-paced

Music Essentials for Singers and Actors: Fundamentals of Notation, Sight-Singing and Music Theory by Andrew Gerle

Music Essentials for Singers and Actors: Fundamentals of Notation, Sight-Singing and Music Theory
Andrew Gerle

448 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art music

nonfiction art music

Music Essentials for Singers and Actors: Fundamentals of Notation, Sight-Singing and Music Theory by Andrew Gerle

Music Essentials for Singers and Actors: Fundamentals of Notation, Sight-Singing and Music Theory

448 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art music

nonfiction art music

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany Brookshire

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
Bethany Brookshire

348 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction nature science funny informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction nature science funny informative reflective medium-paced

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany Brookshire

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

Bethany Brookshire

348 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction nature science funny informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction nature science funny informative reflective medium-paced

Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor

Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World
Adrienne Mayor

336 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative tense slow-paced

nonfiction history science informative tense slow-paced

Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor

Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World

336 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative tense slow-paced

nonfiction history science informative tense slow-paced

The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health by Anne Biklé, David R. Montgomery

The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health
Anne Biklé, David R. Montgomery

320 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction health nature science informative reflective slow-paced

nonfiction health nature science informative reflective slow-paced

The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health by Anne Biklé, David R. Montgomery

The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health

Anne Biklé, David R. Montgomery

320 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction health nature science informative reflective slow-paced

nonfiction health nature science informative reflective slow-paced

Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags by Tim Marshall

Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
Politics of Place #2

Tim Marshall

297 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced

Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags by Tim Marshall

Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags

Politics of Place #2

297 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced

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