Read more nonfiction 2025

theayeaye Host

18 participants (124 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

History, memoirs, essays and academic texts — let's understand our world and times a little better. 

Challenge Books

All books added
Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers by Jessica Roux

Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers

Hidden Languages #1

Jessica Roux

224 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history nature informative relaxing fast-paced
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa

The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers

Kate Kitagawa

320 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction history mathematics science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

334 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction essays memoir sports emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

All Boys Aren't Blue

George M. Johnson

313 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir race emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees by Thor Hanson

Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees

Thor Hanson

304 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction nature science informative reflective slow-paced
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr

Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

Anthony Doerr

210 pages • hardcover • 2007

nonfiction memoir travel reflective medium-paced
Serial Killers: Real and Imagined by The Great Courses, Emily Zarka

Serial Killers: Real and Imagined

The Great Courses, Emily Zarka

2 hours, 56 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction biography true crime informative medium-paced
A Rip in Heaven by Jeanine Cummins

A Rip in Heaven

Jeanine Cummins

320 pages • paperback • 2004

nonfiction biography true crime dark fast-paced
Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier by Michael Ableman

Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier

Michael Ableman

6 hours, 47 minutes • audio • 2016 user-added

nonfiction informative inspiring medium-paced
John Muir: The Scotsman Who Saved America's Wild Places by Mary Colwell

John Muir: The Scotsman Who Saved America's Wild Places

Mary Colwell

10 hours, 51 minutes • audio • 2014

nonfiction biography nature adventurous informative reflective slow-paced