12 non fiction books in 12 months

tamtam3 Host

32 participants (219 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

The goal is to read twelve non fiction books by the end of the year, preferably one a month.

Challenge Books

All books added
Cosmic Queries: Startalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going by James Trefil, Neil deGrasse Tyson

Cosmic Queries: Startalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going

James Trefil, Neil deGrasse Tyson

6 hours, 18 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction science informative medium-paced
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

Naoki Higashida

135 pages • hardcover • 2005

nonfiction memoir psychology informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
Love Letters of Great Men by Ursula Doyle

Love Letters of Great Men

Ursula Doyle

3 hours, 20 minutes • audio • 2008 user-added

nonfiction poetry romance lighthearted slow-paced
Algospeak by Adam Aleksic

Algospeak

Adam Aleksic

5 hours, 47 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction reference sociology technology funny informative reflective medium-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
People Pleaser: Breaking Free from the Burden of Imaginary Expectations by Jinger Vuolo

People Pleaser: Breaking Free from the Burden of Imaginary Expectations

Jinger Vuolo

6 hours, 21 minutes • audio • 2025 user-added

nonfiction memoir hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Tastes Like War: A Memoir by Grace M. Cho

Tastes Like War: A Memoir

Grace M. Cho

9 hours, 24 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''young Poet'' by Franz Xaver Kappus, Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''young Poet''

Franz Xaver Kappus, Rainer Maria Rilke

180 pages • hardcover • 1929

nonfiction classics essays poetry inspiring reflective fast-paced
One Man’s Journey: A Walk on the Croton Aqueduct Trail by Ed Perratore

One Man’s Journey: A Walk on the Croton Aqueduct Trail

Ed Perratore

145 pages • paperback

nonfiction
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

7 hours, 23 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced