Read 12 Non-Fiction Books in 2025

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28 participants (244 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

This was originally meant to mean one non-fiction book a month but life got in the way. And what does it matter if I read one a month as long as I read 12 total? Join me if you’d like! 

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Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison by Sarah Mirk

Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison

Sarah Mirk

191 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction biography comics history emotional reflective slow-paced
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women by Kate Manne

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

Kate Manne

270 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction feminism philosophy sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Lawrence Wright

430 pages • hardcover • 2013

nonfiction history religion challenging dark slow-paced
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

Natalie Haynes

308 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction feminism history informative reflective medium-paced
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom

210 pages • digital • 1997

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke

80 pages • digital • 1929

nonfiction classics essays poetry inspiring reflective fast-paced
Beauty by Andy Warhol

Beauty

Andy Warhol

128 pages • paperback

nonfiction
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

128 pages • paperback • 1848

nonfiction economics philosophy politics informative reflective slow-paced
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

128 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction history politics informative reflective fast-paced
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

264 pages • paperback • 2014

nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced