25 in 25: Nonfiction

jerrim1100's profile picture jerrim1100 Host

42 participants (549 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

The goal is to read 25 nonfiction books in 2025. The books can be about any topic, but must be nonfiction.

Challenge Books

All books added
Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You: A Memoir of Saying the Unsayable with Food by Candice Chung

Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You: A Memoir of Saying the Unsayable with Food

Candice Chung

6 hours, 22 minutes • audio • 2025 user-added

nonfiction memoir
What's Your Dream? by Simon Squibb

What's Your Dream?

Simon Squibb

7 hours, 56 minutes • audio • 2025 user-added

nonfiction business medium-paced
The Best of American Heritage: The Civil War by Edwin S. Grosvenor

The Best of American Heritage: The Civil War

Edwin S. Grosvenor

7 hours, 6 minutes • audio • 2015 user-added

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Elizabeth The Queen by Alison Weir by Alison Weir, Alison Weir

Elizabeth The Queen by Alison Weir

Alison Weir, Alison Weir

488 pages • paperback • 1998

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Blue Horses: Poems by Mary Oliver

Blue Horses: Poems

Mary Oliver

96 pages • hardcover • 2014

nonfiction nature poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell by Paul A. Lombardo

Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell

Paul A. Lombardo

365 pages • paperback • 2008

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Amanda Leduc

256 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction health sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen

Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States

Samantha Allen

321 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
American Cult: A Graphic History of Religious Cults in America from the Colonial Era to Today by Robyn Chapman

American Cult: A Graphic History of Religious Cults in America from the Colonial Era to Today

Robyn Chapman

209 pages • digital user-added

nonfiction education
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

390 pages • paperback • 2013

nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced