12 non fiction books in 12 months

tamtam3 Host

33 participants (268 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

All books added
The Blind Woodsman: One Man's Journey to Find His Purpose on the Other Side of Darkness by Anni Furniss, John Furniss

The Blind Woodsman: One Man's Journey to Find His Purpose on the Other Side of Darkness

Anni Furniss, John Furniss

192 pages • paperback

nonfiction memoir
Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals by Laurie Zaleski

Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

Laurie Zaleski

256 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction memoir emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Cosmic Queries: Startalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going by James Trefil, Neil deGrasse Tyson

Cosmic Queries: Startalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going

James Trefil, Neil deGrasse Tyson

6 hours, 18 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction science informative medium-paced
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

Naoki Higashida

135 pages • hardcover • 2005

nonfiction memoir psychology informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
Love Letters of Great Men by Ursula Doyle

Love Letters of Great Men

Ursula Doyle

3 hours, 20 minutes • audio • 2008 user-added

nonfiction poetry romance lighthearted slow-paced
Algospeak by Adam Aleksic

Algospeak

Adam Aleksic

5 hours, 47 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction sociology technology funny informative reflective medium-paced
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

Everything is Tuberculosis

John Green

198 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction health history science hopeful informative reflective fast-paced
People Pleaser: Breaking Free from the Burden of Imaginary Expectations by Jinger Vuolo

People Pleaser: Breaking Free from the Burden of Imaginary Expectations

Jinger Vuolo

6 hours, 21 minutes • audio • 2025 user-added

nonfiction memoir hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Tastes Like War: A Memoir by Grace M. Cho

Tastes Like War: A Memoir

Grace M. Cho

9 hours, 24 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''young Poet'' by Franz Xaver Kappus, Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''young Poet''

Franz Xaver Kappus, Rainer Maria Rilke

180 pages • hardcover • 1929

nonfiction classics essays poetry inspiring reflective fast-paced