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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Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

Julia Shaw

240 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ science informative reflective medium-paced
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail by Andrea Lankford

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

10 hours, 6 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction true crime adventurous informative sad medium-paced
Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live by Daniel Klein

Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live

Daniel Klein

210 pages • digital • 2015

nonfiction philosophy psychology challenging funny reflective slow-paced
Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics by Gary Smith

Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics

Gary Smith

304 pages • digital • 2014

nonfiction economics mathematics science informative medium-paced
The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design by Tod Polson

The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design

Tod Polson

176 pages • 2013

nonfiction art design informative lighthearted slow-paced
The Philosophy Cure: Lessons on Living from the Great Philosophers by Laurence Devillairs

The Philosophy Cure: Lessons on Living from the Great Philosophers

Laurence Devillairs

211 pages • digital • 2020 user-added

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative fast-paced
The Road to Character by David Brooks

The Road to Character

David Brooks

320 pages • hardcover • 2015

nonfiction philosophy psychology self help informative reflective slow-paced
Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up by K.C. Cole

Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up

K.C. Cole

416 pages • hardcover • 2009

nonfiction biography history science informative medium-paced
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

10 hours, 9 minutes • audio • 1974

nonfiction memoir nature informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

106 pages • paperback • 1532

nonfiction classics philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced