12 Non-Fiction Books a Year

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38 participants (326 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read 12 books that are non-fiction. 

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Educated by Tara Westover

Educated

Tara Westover

368 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Night Stalker by Philip Carlo

The Night Stalker

Philip Carlo

592 pages • paperback • 1996

nonfiction biography crime true crime dark medium-paced
Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education by Sola Mahfouz, Malaina Kapoor

Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education

Sola Mahfouz, Malaina Kapoor

9 hours • audio • 2023

nonfiction education memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

13 hours, 55 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction history science challenging informative tense slow-paced
The Evin Prison Bakers' Club: Surviving Iran's Most Notorious Prisons in 16 Recipes by Sepideh Gholian

The Evin Prison Bakers' Club: Surviving Iran's Most Notorious Prisons in 16 Recipes

Sepideh Gholian

208 pages • digital

nonfiction feminism politics
The Monster and the Mirror: Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell by K.J. Aiello

The Monster and the Mirror: Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell

K.J. Aiello

255 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction memoir psychology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
A Sin by Any Other Name: Reckoning with Racism and the Heritage of the South by Robert W. Lee

A Sin by Any Other Name: Reckoning with Racism and the Heritage of the South

Robert W. Lee

4 hours, 25 minutes • audio • 2019 user-added

nonfiction history memoir race challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
Citizenville: Connecting People and Government in the Digital Age by Gavin Newsom

Citizenville: Connecting People and Government in the Digital Age

Gavin Newsom

256 pages • hardcover • 2013

nonfiction business politics technology reflective slow-paced
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Edward Dolnick

The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century

Edward Dolnick

349 pages • paperback • 2008

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon by Tucker Malarkey

Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon

Tucker Malarkey

14 hours, 7 minutes • audio • 2019 user-added

nonfiction nature science adventurous informative reflective slow-paced