12 Non-Fiction Books a Year

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38 participants (300 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read 12 books that are non-fiction. 

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Finding Me by Viola Davis

Finding Me

Viola Davis

291 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America by Jonathan Kozol

Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America

Jonathan Kozol

354 pages • paperback • 2012

nonfiction education sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Life and Work by Victoria Ortiz

Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Life and Work

Victoria Ortiz

4 hours, 55 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction biography middle grade informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History by Joel Warner

The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History

Joel Warner

296 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction biography history true crime dark informative reflective medium-paced
The Bad Popes by E.R. Chamberlin

The Bad Popes

E.R. Chamberlin

11 hours, 4 minutes • audio • 1969 user-added

nonfiction biography history religion tense fast-paced
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Robin Wall Kimmerer

168 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction essays nature informative reflective slow-paced
I Am Not Spock by Leonard Nimoy

I Am Not Spock

Leonard Nimoy

150 pages • paperback • 1976

nonfiction biography memoir adventurous challenging funny slow-paced
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

Everything is Tuberculosis

John Green

198 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction health history science hopeful informative reflective fast-paced
Music: A Subversive History by Ted Gioia

Music: A Subversive History

Ted Gioia

528 pages • paperback

nonfiction history music informative reflective slow-paced
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature by Sarah Hart

Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Sarah Hart

304 pages • paperback • 2023

nonfiction mathematics funny informative medium-paced