Reading 25 non-fiction books in 2025

tryingtofindallthebooks Host

10 participants (40 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

This is definitely aspirational for me, I do not read a lot of non-fiction at all, but about 2 a month sounds somewhat doable?? We'll see!

Challenge Books

All books added
Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult by Michelle Dowd

Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

Michelle Dowd

7 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir religion challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love by Brit Barron

Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love

Brit Barron

3 hours, 36 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Hallie Rubenhold

10 hours, 19 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

247 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson

American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

Kate Winkler Dawson

10 hours, 43 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history science true crime informative medium-paced
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

Colin Dickey

10 hours, 47 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history dark slow-paced
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science

Sam Kean

384 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history science true crime informative medium-paced
The Unknown Kimi Räikkönen by Kari Hotakainen

The Unknown Kimi Räikkönen

Kari Hotakainen

336 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography sports funny informative medium-paced
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix

Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

Grady Hendrix

256 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history horror reference funny informative fast-paced
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak

Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her

Melanie Rehak

364 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative lighthearted mysterious medium-paced