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Bill's 2025 Non-Fiction Reader Challenge

I plan to try and read at least 10 non-fiction books in 2025.

1. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher 4.0 stars
2. Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home by Susan Hill 4.5 stars
3. On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy by Ira Wells 4.5 stars
4. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein DNF, NR*
5. A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor 4.5 stars
6. On Freedom by Timothy Snyder 4.0 stars
7. The Complete Persepolis: 20th Anniversary Edition by Marjane Satrapi 4.0 stars
8. Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi 3.0 stars
9. Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 by Dorothy Parker 4.0 stars
10. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism by Stewart Reynolds 3.5 stars
11. A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf
12. An Outbreak of Witchcraft: A Graphic Novel of the Salem Witch Trials by Deborah Noyes 3.0 stars
13. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
14. Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest Spy by Jason Bell

Completed: 10*
(*I've listed Doppelganger because I started it, but haven't added it to my completed list because it was a DNF)

The aim of the Nonfiction Reader Challenge is to encourage you to make nonfiction part of your reading experience during the year. Feel free to post your own 2025 NF Reading Challenge thread in this folder.


The challenge will run from January 1st to December 31st 2025.
Participants may join at any time up until December 1st 2025

My review of Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi 4.5 stars

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Next are the final 2 books in the Catwings series by Ursula K. Le Guin, Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings and Jane on Her Own

Great challenges. I hope you enjoy your 2025 reading choices.

I hope to start Hell Bent and also the Susan MacNeal series and Richard Osman's first mystery series. Enjoy your selections.

What an impressive list. I hope to read the 1st book in the Wheel of Time someday, maybe in 2025. Enjoy your selections.

Excellent mix, Alondra. I've only read Wolf Hall, a slow build but excellent and The Handmaid's Tale (enjoyed each time I've read it) I hope to read Gone South in 2025 as well. Enjoy!

The Dresden Files is always fun, especially when Lt Cruz plays a bit role. I'm also enjoying the Cat books and am looking forward to starting the Wayfarers.. Enjoy your books.

I haven't read any of your choices but I am enjoying the Klune book I'm currently reading so I may try more of his work. Enjoy your selections.

I look forward to seeing what books you fill your list with over 2025.

1758. Woman, Life, Freedom

Interesting mix, Pam. Philip K. Dick is one of the more unique authors I've ever read. I read the Narnia books in university, loved it so much. Enjoy your 2025 reading.

Good luck catching up on series. Always a good plan.

I don't know any of these books. I hope you enjoy.

Enjoy your reading Karol.

You are so well-organized, Alissa. Enjoy your 2025 challenges. Sav sounds very interesting.

Good luck with your selections, Alissa. All unfamiliar to me although I do hope to try a Rebecca Yarros book in 2025. Enjoy!

Good luck with your selections, Alissa. Enjoy your 2025 reading.

Excellent challenge Michelle. Personally I think that books get banned to limit understanding of anyone or any idea that is different. Reading raises questions, creates understanding, if not acceptance.

I agree with you that it's up to parents, talking with their kids, to decide what books are appropriate. My parents never stopped me reading anything (maybe they should have sometimes) and I practiced the same with my own.

Last Night at the Telegraph Club is an excellent choice btw. Good luck with your challenge

I'm also doing a Dusty book challenge. It's a great idea to get at those books that have been left languishing. Enjoy 2025.