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Read 12 Non-Fiction Books in 2025

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21 participants (145 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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Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

Gender Queer: A Memoir

Maia Kobabe

242 pages • digital • 2019

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

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging informative medium-paced
An Atlas of Extinct Countries by Gideon Defoe

An Atlas of Extinct Countries

Gideon Defoe

304 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history reference funny informative fast-paced
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

128 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

Saidiya Hartman

462 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction feminism history lgbtqia+ race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone by Naktsang Nulo

My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone

Naktsang Nulo

344 pages • paperback • 2014

nonfiction history memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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