25 in 25: Nonfiction

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42 participants (550 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

The goal is to read 25 nonfiction books in 2025. The books can be about any topic, but must be nonfiction.

Challenge Books

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Not a Nation of Immigrants by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Not a Nation of Immigrants

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

12 hours, 21 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Der Koran und die Frauen: ein Imam erklärt vergessene Seiten des Islam by Benjamin Idriz

Der Koran und die Frauen: ein Imam erklärt vergessene Seiten des Islam

Benjamin Idriz

192 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction religion medium-paced
The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir by Sophie Strand

The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir

Sophie Strand

272 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction memoir emotional hopeful informative medium-paced
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton

The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution

David Wootton

1175 pages • digital user-added

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
The House of My Mother by Shari Franke

The House of My Mother

Shari Franke

7 hours, 9 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross

Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross

9 hours, 11 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction art informative reflective medium-paced
Aboriginal Mythology by Billy Wellman

Aboriginal Mythology

Enthralling History

Billy Wellman

110 pages • digital • 2024 user-added

nonfiction historical nature race religion
This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

384 pages • digital • 2009

nonfiction biography memoir challenging emotional slow-paced
Divine Traces of the Daoist Sisterhood: Records of the Assembled Transcendents of the Fortified Walled City by Du Guangling (850-933) by Suzanne Cahill

Divine Traces of the Daoist Sisterhood: Records of the Assembled Transcendents of the Fortified Walled City by Du Guangling (850-933)

Suzanne Cahill

244 pages • paperback • 2017

challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic by Benjamin Carter Hett

The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic

Benjamin Carter Hett

304 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction history politics informative tense slow-paced