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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A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery by Lawrence Ingrassia

A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

Lawrence Ingrassia

320 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction health memoir emotional informative sad medium-paced
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

11 hours, 3 minutes • audio • 2016

nonfiction politics sociology emotional informative sad medium-paced
Ancient India by Rebecca Rowell

Ancient India

Ancient Civilizations

Rebecca Rowell

112 pages

nonfiction childrens history young adult informative medium-paced
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For by Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For

Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

176 pages • hardcover

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Winning Fixes Everything: The Rise and Fall of the Houston Astros by Evan Drellich

Winning Fixes Everything: The Rise and Fall of the Houston Astros

Evan Drellich

368 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction history sports informative medium-paced
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

8 hours, 28 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction history true crime adventurous dark informative medium-paced
Ancient Mesopotamia by Tom Head

Ancient Mesopotamia

Adams 101

Tom Head

112 pages • 2017

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates

13 hours, 39 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction essays history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith

You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir

Maggie Smith

313 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir by Anne Fadiman

The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir

Anne Fadiman

272 pages • digital • 2017

nonfiction biography memoir informative reflective slow-paced