Read 12 Non-Fiction Books in 2025

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14 participants (99 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! 

Challenge Books

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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

Jesmyn Ward

240 pages • digital • 2016

nonfiction essays poetry race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

247 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

Raja Shehadeh

160 pages • paperback • 2022

nonfiction history memoir politics emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian F. Haney-López

Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

Ian F. Haney-López

304 pages • hardcover • 2013

nonfiction history politics reflective slow-paced
Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire by GerShun Avilez

Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire

New Black Studies

GerShun Avilez

208 pages • hardcover

nonfiction lgbtqia+ literary medium-paced
Multicultural Journalism: Critical Reflexivity in News Practice by Margaret Thompson
Multicultural Journalism: Critical Reflexivity in News Practice
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Margaret Thompson

Multicultural Journalism: Critical Reflexivity in News Practice

Margaret Thompson

260 pages • hardcover

nonfiction art medium-paced
Journalism Practice and Critical Reflexivity by Bonita Mason
Journalism Practice and Critical Reflexivity
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Bonita Mason

Journalism Practice and Critical Reflexivity

Bonita Mason

226 pages • digital • 2023 user-added

nonfiction education feminism politics race sociology
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

362 pages • digital • 2017

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Screen Christologies: Redemption and the Medium of Film by

Screen Christologies: Redemption and the Medium of Film

Religion, Culture, and Society

212 pages • paperback

nonfiction art medium-paced
Screening The Sacred: Religion, Myth, And Ideology In Popular American Film by Joel Martin, Conrad E. Ostwalt

Screening The Sacred: Religion, Myth, And Ideology In Popular American Film

Joel Martin, Conrad E. Ostwalt

207 pages • paperback

nonfiction art history