Read 12 Non-Fiction Books in 2025

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12 participants (93 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!

Read 12 Non-Fiction Books in 2025

readwithriahh Host

12 participants (93 books)

STARTS: 01 Jan 2025ENDS: 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!

Challenge Books

All books added

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
Joe Vallese with Vikas Adam (Narrator), Lindsey Dorcus (Narrator), Mike Cooper (Narrator), Joel Froomkin (Narrator), Aida Reluzco (Narrator), Mark Sanderlin (Narrator), Graham Halstead (Narrator), Em Grosland (Narrator), Aven Shore (Narrator), Hope Newhouse (Narrator), André Santana (Narrator), Ron Butler (Narrator), Krystal Hammond (Narrator), Tori Barron (Narrator), Daniel Henning (Narrator)

10 hours, 59 minutes • audio • 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays horror lgbtqia+ emotional informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction essays horror lgbtqia+ emotional informative reflective medium-paced

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Joe Vallese with Vikas Adam (Narrator), Lindsey Dorcus (Narrator), Mike Cooper (Narrator), Joel Froomkin (Narrator), Aida Reluzco (Narrator), Mark Sanderlin (Narrator), Graham Halstead (Narrator), Em Grosland (Narrator), Aven Shore (Narrator), Hope Newhouse (Narrator), André Santana (Narrator), Ron Butler (Narrator), Krystal Hammond (Narrator), Tori Barron (Narrator), Daniel Henning (Narrator)

10 hours, 59 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction essays horror lgbtqia+ emotional informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction essays horror lgbtqia+ emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Know My Name
Chanel Miller

368 pages • digital • 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

nonfiction feminism memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Know My Name

368 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction feminism memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

nonfiction feminism memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad

187 pages • hardcover • 2025 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction memoir politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

187 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction memoir politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction memoir politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 by Chris Payne

Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
Chris Payne

496 pages • digital • 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history music emotional informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction history music emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 by Chris Payne

Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008

496 pages • digital • 2023

nonfiction history music emotional informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction history music emotional informative reflective medium-paced

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Lindsey Fitzharris

304 pages • paperback • 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography health history science dark informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction biography health history science dark informative reflective medium-paced

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

Lindsey Fitzharris

304 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction biography health history science dark informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction biography health history science dark informative reflective medium-paced

Ask Me about My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain by Abby Norman

Ask Me about My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
Abby Norman

293 pages • digital • 2018 (editions) user-added

nonfiction feminism health memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction feminism health memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Ask Me about My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain by Abby Norman

Ask Me about My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

293 pages • digital • 2018 user-added

nonfiction feminism health memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced

nonfiction feminism health memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice by Yusef Salaam

Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
Yusef Salaam

305 pages • digital • 2021 (editions) user-added

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced

Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice by Yusef Salaam

Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice

305 pages • digital • 2021 user-added

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

All Boys Aren't Blue
George M. Johnson

304 pages • digital • 2020 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir race emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir race emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

All Boys Aren't Blue

George M. Johnson

304 pages • digital • 2020

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir race emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir race emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe with Phoebe Kobabe (Illustrator)

242 pages • digital • 2019 (editions)

nonfiction gender graphic novel lgbtqia+ memoir emotional informative reflective fast-paced

nonfiction gender graphic novel lgbtqia+ memoir emotional informative reflective fast-paced

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

Gender Queer: A Memoir

Maia Kobabe with Phoebe Kobabe (Illustrator)

242 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction gender graphic novel lgbtqia+ memoir emotional informative reflective fast-paced

nonfiction gender graphic novel lgbtqia+ memoir emotional informative reflective fast-paced

The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

The Freezer Door
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

280 pages • paperback • 2020 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging informative medium-paced

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging informative medium-paced

The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

The Freezer Door

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

280 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging informative medium-paced

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging informative medium-paced

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