2025 Nonfiction Challenge

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23 participants (46 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read at least 12 nonfiction books in 2025.

Challenge Books

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Lynne Truss

209 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction reference funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition) by Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition)

Anthony Bourdain

312 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective fast-paced
Karl Gerhard: Estradör och provokatör by Kalle Lind
Karl Gerhard: Estradör och provokatör
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Kalle Lind

Karl Gerhard: Estradör och provokatör

Kalle Lind

272 pages • missing pub info (editions)

medium-paced
Stones and Bones: Fossils and the Stories They Tell by Rob Wilshaw

Stones and Bones: Fossils and the Stories They Tell

Rob Wilshaw

80 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics nature science
Obsessive about Octopuses by Owen Davey

Obsessive about Octopuses

About Animals #6

Owen Davey

40 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction childrens science informative lighthearted slow-paced
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

283 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

Donovan X. Ramsey

448 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology informative reflective sad medium-paced
Who's That Girl?: A Memoir by Eve

Who's That Girl?: A Memoir

Eve

320 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir music informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women's Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century by Janet Dewart Bell

Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women's Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

Janet Dewart Bell

256 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Driving The Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Alvin Hall

Driving The Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance

Alvin Hall

277 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history race travel informative reflective medium-paced