12 non-fiction books in 2025

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19 participants (87 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

I want to get back in to reading more true crime and non fiction so my goal is to read at least one a month 

Challenge Books

All books added
Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters by Peter Langman

Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters

Peter Langman

8 hours, 32 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction crime psychology true crime informative slow-paced
Out of Orange: A Memoir by Cleary Wolters

Out of Orange: A Memoir

Cleary Wolters

11 hours, 59 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions) user-added

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir reflective slow-paced
A Promised Land by Barack Obama

A Promised Land

The Presidential Memoirs #1

Barack Obama

768 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love by Tori Dunlap

Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love

Tori Dunlap

305 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction economics challenging informative medium-paced
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Adam Hochschild

392 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging dark informative medium-paced
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes

The Fatal Shore

Robert Hughes

752 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

441 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics true crime dark informative reflective medium-paced
Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts

Napoleon: A Life

Andrew Roberts

967 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative medium-paced
Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela by Raúl Gallegos

Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela

Raúl Gallegos

256 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

429 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative medium-paced