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2025 1 nonfiction per month

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32 participants (206 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Challenging myself to read more nonfiction this year! 1 per month minimum 

Challenge Books

All books added
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

Masha Gessen

314 pages • hardcover • 2012

nonfiction biography politics informative tense slow-paced
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah

289 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction memoir race emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey

304 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction memoir funny inspiring reflective medium-paced
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Charles C. Mann

11 hours, 16 minutes • audio • 2005

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
Home before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Lynda Van Devanter

Home before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam

Lynda Van Devanter

15 hours, 24 minutes • audio • 1983 user-added

nonfiction history memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Kate Moore

15 hours, 53 minutes • audio • 2016

nonfiction biography history science emotional informative sad medium-paced
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

480 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction history music informative reflective sad medium-paced
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

Dina Gilio-Whitaker

224 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World by Laura Spinney

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

Laura Spinney

332 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction history science reflective medium-paced
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

Bill Wasik

8 hours, 10 minutes • audio • 2012

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced