12 Non-Fiction Books a Year

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38 participants (309 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read 12 books that are non-fiction. 

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The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman

The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

Russell Freedman

114 pages • 2004

nonfiction biography history music informative inspiring slow-paced
Spare by Prince Harry

Spare

Prince Harry

410 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World by Jen Psaki

Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

Jen Psaki

256 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction memoir self help informative medium-paced
Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever by Gavin Edwards

Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever

Gavin Edwards

224 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction biography informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It by Valerie Young

The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It

Valerie Young

292 pages • hardcover • 2011

nonfiction business feminism self help informative slow-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

400 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction history politics medium-paced
It Gets Better . . . Except When It Gets Worse: And Other Unsolicited Truths I Wish Someone Had Told Me by Nicole Maines

It Gets Better . . . Except When It Gets Worse: And Other Unsolicited Truths I Wish Someone Had Told Me

Nicole Maines

214 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir emotional funny reflective fast-paced
Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes

Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

Richard Rhodes

272 pages • digital • 2011

nonfiction biography history science informative medium-paced
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity by Beverly Daniel Tatum

"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

Beverly Daniel Tatum

464 pages • paperback • 1997

nonfiction education psychology race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

128 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction history politics informative reflective fast-paced