Read 25 Non Fiction Books in 2025

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36 participants (583 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

I want to read more nonfiction - so have set the goal of reading 25 nonfiction books in 2025. 

Challenge Books

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Everybody Needs an Editor: The Essential Guide to Clear and Effective Writing by Melissa Harris

Everybody Needs an Editor: The Essential Guide to Clear and Effective Writing

Melissa Harris

4 hours, 8 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

The Audacity of Hope

Barack Obama

375 pages • hardcover • 2006

nonfiction biography memoir politics challenging reflective slow-paced
Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Yes Please

Amy Poehler

329 pages • hardcover • 2014

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted medium-paced
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

Richard P. Feynman

400 pages • paperback • 1985

nonfiction memoir science informative lighthearted medium-paced
Just Kids by Patti Smith

Just Kids

Patti Smith

279 pages • hardcover • 2010

nonfiction art memoir music emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Christopher McDougall

304 pages • hardcover • 2009

nonfiction science sports adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced
Ghost Boy: My Miraculous Escape from a Life Locked Inside My Own Body by Martin Pistorius

Ghost Boy: My Miraculous Escape from a Life Locked Inside My Own Body

Martin Pistorius

288 pages • hardcover • 2011

nonfiction autobiography emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

Chelsea Handler

6 hours, 14 minutes • audio • 2007

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted fast-paced
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre

Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology

Jean-Paul Sartre

688 pages • paperback • 1943

nonfiction classics philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced
The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever by Lydia Reeder

The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever

Lydia Reeder

336 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction health history science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced