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Read 12 Non-Fiction Books in 2025

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28 participants (199 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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Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

Caroline Fraser

16 hours, 12 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

8 hours, 28 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction history true crime adventurous dark informative medium-paced
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

428 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction biography history challenging dark informative medium-paced
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel

The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

Michael Finkel

224 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction biography nature adventurous reflective fast-paced
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

176 pages • hardcover • 2015

nonfiction memoir race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Framed by Jim McCloskey, John Grisham

Framed

Jim McCloskey, John Grisham

352 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction true crime informative sad medium-paced
While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students by J. Reuben Appelman

While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

J. Reuben Appelman

288 pages • paperback • 2023

nonfiction true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

209 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction memoir emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

Jose Antonio Vargas

236 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction history memoir politics challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Library of Ancient Wisdom by Selena Wisnom

The Library of Ancient Wisdom

Selena Wisnom

400 pages • digital user-added

nonfiction history medium-paced