Nonfiction 2025

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22 participants (604 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

The goal is to read 50 nonfiction books in the year of 2025! Any kind or length count so join me in challenging yourself this year. 

Challenge Books

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Spooky Science: Dissecting the Mysteries of Ghosts, Cryptids, Aliens, and Other Oddities by Paige Miller, Meagan Ankney

Spooky Science: Dissecting the Mysteries of Ghosts, Cryptids, Aliens, and Other Oddities

Paige Miller, Meagan Ankney

212 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction horror science medium-paced
The Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run by Martinus Evans

The Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

Martinus Evans

256 pages • paperback • 2023

nonfiction sports hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad

One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

Åsne Seierstad

530 pages • hardcover • 2013

nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
Tattoo Street Style: London, Brighton, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, New York, La, Melbourne by Alice Snape

Tattoo Street Style: London, Brighton, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, New York, La, Melbourne

Alice Snape

480 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction art informative inspiring medium-paced
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach

Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

Mary Roach

8 hours, 37 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction health science funny hopeful informative fast-paced
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

What If? #1

Randall Munroe

6 hours, 36 minutes • audio • 2014

nonfiction science funny informative lighthearted fast-paced
The People's Project by Maggie Smith, Saeed Jones

The People's Project

Maggie Smith, Saeed Jones

109 pages • digital • 2025

nonfiction art essays poetry emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced
Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by Jeremy Denk

Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

Jeremy Denk

384 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction memoir music emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City by Julia Wertz

Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City

Julia Wertz

284 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction comics history reflective slow-paced
What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany by Eric A. Johnson, Karl-Heinz Reuband

What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany

Eric A. Johnson, Karl-Heinz Reuband

435 pages • digital • 2005 user-added

nonfiction history informative slow-paced