25 in 25: Nonfiction

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42 participants (550 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

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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
The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace Fleming

The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II

Candace Fleming

384 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction middle grade informative slow-paced
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

9 hours, 21 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
The Failed Promise by Robert S. Levine

The Failed Promise

Robert S. Levine

10 hours, 3 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Finding Life: From Eden to Gethsemane by Jane Rubietta

Finding Life: From Eden to Gethsemane

Jane Rubietta

256 pages • paperback • 2014 user-added

nonfiction religion
The Redemption of Wolf 302: From Renegade to Yellowstone Alpha Male by Rick McIntyre

The Redemption of Wolf 302: From Renegade to Yellowstone Alpha Male

The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone #3

Rick McIntyre

7 hours, 36 minutes • audio • 2021 user-added

nonfiction nature science adventurous challenging tense medium-paced
Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare by John Lechner

Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare

John Lechner

261 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction history politics medium-paced
The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya

The Girl Who Smiled Beads

Clemantine Wamariya

304 pages • digital • 2018

nonfiction autobiography memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit by Stephen M. Cohn

All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

Stephen M. Cohn

7 hours, 43 minutes • audio • 2023 user-added

nonfiction memoir science informative medium-paced
The Spartacus War by Barry S. Strauss

The Spartacus War

Barry S. Strauss

264 pages • hardcover

nonfiction history adventurous informative tense medium-paced