12 non fiction books in 12 months

tamtam3 Host

33 participants (261 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
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
Why We Need to Be Wild: What Stone Age Wisdom Taught Me about Domestication, Happiness, and the Future OfHumanity by Jessica Carew Kraft

Why We Need to Be Wild: What Stone Age Wisdom Taught Me about Domestication, Happiness, and the Future OfHumanity

Jessica Carew Kraft

336 pages • hardcover

nonfiction sociology
Granite Mountain: The Firsthand Account of a Tragic Wildfire, Its Lone Survivor, and the Firefighters Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice by Brendan McDonough

Granite Mountain: The Firsthand Account of a Tragic Wildfire, Its Lone Survivor, and the Firefighters Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice

Brendan McDonough

288 pages • paperback • 2016

nonfiction biography history memoir informative inspiring sad medium-paced
Hotshot: A Life on Fire by River Selby

Hotshot: A Life on Fire

River Selby

336 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction memoir challenging reflective slow-paced
We Might Just Make It After All: My Best Friendship with Kate Spade by Elyce Arons

We Might Just Make It After All: My Best Friendship with Kate Spade

Elyce Arons

304 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction autobiography design memoir emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Corrections in Ink: A Memoir by Keri Blakinger

Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

Keri Blakinger

336 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

Doppelganger

Naomi Klein

399 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction memoir politics sociology technology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

Evan Friss

10 hours, 16 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction business history hopeful informative medium-paced
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Jason Stanley

256 pages • digital • 2018

nonfiction history philosophy politics informative medium-paced