Read 12 Non-Fiction Books in 2025

readwithriahh's profile picture readwithriahh Host

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! 

Challenge Books

All books added
The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy by Leigh Gallagher

The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy

Leigh Gallagher

256 pages • digital • 2017

nonfiction biography business informative medium-paced
1805 Austerlitz by Robert Goetz

1805 Austerlitz

Robert Goetz

527 pages • digital • 2005

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Trafalgar by Nicholas Best

Trafalgar

Nicholas Best

400 pages • digital • 2018

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

6 hours, 50 minutes • audio • 2015

nonfiction psychology self help informative reflective medium-paced
Cult, a Love Story by Alexandra Amor

Cult, a Love Story

Alexandra Amor

319 pages • digital • 2009

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

Under the Banner of Heaven

Jon Krakauer

432 pages • digital • 2003

nonfiction religion true crime challenging dark informative slow-paced
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Patricia Evangelista

448 pages • digital • 2023

nonfiction history memoir politics true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys by Erin Kimmerle

We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

Erin Kimmerle

256 pages • digital • 2022

nonfiction history true crime challenging dark informative medium-paced
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works by Helen Czerski

The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

Helen Czerski

14 hours, 52 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction nature science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Out of the Corner by Jennifer Grey

Out of the Corner

Jennifer Grey

11 hours, 18 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced