12 non fiction books in 12 months

tamtam3 Host

33 participants (259 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

The goal is to read twelve non fiction books by the end of the year, preferably one a month.

Challenge Books

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What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

Elizabeth Catte

146 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction history politics sociology reflective slow-paced
Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away by David Gelles

Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away

David Gelles

320 pages • hardcover

nonfiction business
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (And Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham

Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (And Everything in Between)

Lauren Graham

225 pages • paperback • 2016

nonfiction essays memoir funny lighthearted fast-paced
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams

The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

Terry Tempest Williams

416 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction memoir nature travel reflective slow-paced
Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography by Staci Robinson

Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography

Staci Robinson

464 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction biography music dark reflective sad medium-paced
When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World by Jordan Thomas

When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World

Jordan Thomas

368 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction memoir science medium-paced
Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty by Kaila Yu

Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty

Kaila Yu

256 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction essays feminism race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

Barbara Demick

352 pages • digital • 2025

nonfiction biography history emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

336 pages • hardcover • 2014

nonfiction memoir race emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic by Anthony Almojera

Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic

Anthony Almojera

272 pages • hardcover

nonfiction emotional reflective slow-paced