Readers' Top 200 Nonfiction Books Of 2025

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

By Omar El Akkad ,

Careless People

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Careless People

By Sarah Wynn-Williams ,

Say Nothing

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Say Nothing

By Patrick Radden Keefe ,

Abundance

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Abundance

By Ezra Klein , Derek Thompson ,

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The Anxious Generation

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The Anxious Generation

By Jonathan Haidt ,

A Walk in the Park

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A Walk in the Park

By Kevin Fedarko ,

Is a River Alive?

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Is a River Alive?

By Robert Macfarlane ,

Memorial Days

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Memorial Days

By Geraldine Brooks ,

The Devil in the White City

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The Devil in the White City

By Erik Larson ,

The British are Coming

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The British are Coming

By Rick Atkinson ,

Never Split the Difference

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Never Split the Difference

By Chris Voss , Tahl Raz ,

Dopamine Nation

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Dopamine Nation

By Anna Lembke ,

All the Beauty in the World

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All the Beauty in the World

By Patrick Bringley ,

The Wager

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The Wager

By David Grann ,

The Wide Wide Sea

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The Wide Wide Sea

By Hampton Sides ,

Nexus

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Nexus

By Yuval Noah Harari ,

The Fate of the Day

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The Fate of the Day

By Rick Atkinson ,

Sonny Boy

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Sonny Boy

By Al Pacino ,

Everything Is Tuberculosis

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Everything Is Tuberculosis

By John Green ,

Ghost Soldiers

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Ghost Soldiers

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H is for Hawk

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H is for Hawk

By Helen Macdonald ,

Braiding Sweetgrass

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Braiding Sweetgrass

By Robin Wall Kimmerer ,

With the Old Breed

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With the Old Breed

By E.B. Sledge ,

Sapiens

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Sapiens

By Yuval Noah Harari ,

The Unwomanly Face of War

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The Unwomanly Face of War

By Svetlana Alexievich , Larissa Volokhonsky (translator) , Richard Pevear (translator)

Atomic Habits

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Atomic Habits

By James Clear ,

Wolf Hall

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Wolf Hall

By Hilary Mantel ,

Wild Swans

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Wild Swans

By Jung Chang ,

The Courage to Be Disliked

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The Courage to Be Disliked

By Ichiro Kishimi , Fumitake Koga ,

In the Dream House

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In the Dream House

By Carmen Maria Machado ,

Wuthering Heights

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Wuthering Heights

By Emily Bronte ,

I Who Have Never Known Men

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I Who Have Never Known Men

By Jacqueline Harpman , Ros Schwartz (translator) ,

The Psychology of Money

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The Psychology of Money

By Morgan Housel ,

The Salt Path

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The Salt Path

By Raynor Winn ,

On Tyranny

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On Tyranny

By Timothy Snyder ,

How to Hide an Empire

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How to Hide an Empire

By Daniel Immerwahr ,

What My Bones Know

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What My Bones Know

By Stephanie Foo ,

Fire Weather

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Fire Weather

By John Vaillant ,

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

By George Saunders ,

The Art Thief

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The Art Thief

By Michael Finkel ,

The Maniac

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The Maniac

By Benjamin Labatut ,

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

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How to Stand Up to a Dictator

By Maria Ressa ,

Democracy Awakening

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Democracy Awakening

By Heather Cox Richardson ,

The Light Eaters

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The Light Eaters

By Zoë Schlanger ,

Raising Hare

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Raising Hare

By Chloe Dalton ,

Patriot

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Patriot

By Alexei Navalny ,

On Writing

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On Writing

By Stephen King ,

Karla's Choice

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Karla's Choice

By Nick Harkaway ,

Every Valley

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Every Valley

By Charles King ,

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain

By Ron Chernow ,

Coming Up Short

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Coming Up Short

By Robert B. Reich ,

A Ghost in the Throat

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A Ghost in the Throat

By Doireann Ní Ghríofa ,

All the Way to the River

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All the Way to the River

By Elizabeth Gilbert ,

Such a Pretty Picture

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Such a Pretty Picture

By Andrea Leeb ,

Inventing the Renaissance

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Inventing the Renaissance

By Ada Palmer ,

The Crazies

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The Crazies

By Amy Gamerman ,

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

By Steven Novella , Bob Novella , Cara Santa Maria , Jay Novella , Evan Bernstein

The Haunted Wood

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The Haunted Wood

By Sam Leith ,

Cher

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Cher

By Cher ,

Broken Country

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Broken Country

By Clare Leslie Hall ,

Man’s Search for Meaning

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Man’s Search for Meaning

By Viktor Frankl ,

Endurance

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Endurance

By Alfred Lansing ,

Midnight in Chernobyl

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Midnight in Chernobyl

By Adam Higginbotham ,

The Invention of Nature

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The Invention of Nature

By Andrea Wulf ,

Dominion

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Dominion

By Tom Holland ,

A Woman of No Importance

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A Woman of No Importance

By Sonia Purnell ,

Double Cross

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Double Cross

By Ben Macintyre ,

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By Rebecca Skloot ,

The Girls of Atomic City

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The Girls of Atomic City

By Denise Kiernan ,

Too Close to the Falls

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Too Close to the Falls

By Catherine Gildiner ,

The Big Short

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The Big Short

By Michael Lewis ,

Arctic Dreams

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Arctic Dreams

By Barry Lopez ,

Undrowned

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Undrowned

By Alexis Pauline Gumbs ,

Bring Up the Bodies

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Bring Up the Bodies

By Hilary Mantel ,

Grandma Gatewood's Walk

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Grandma Gatewood's Walk

By Ben Montgomery ,

Tristes Tropiques

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Tristes Tropiques

By Claude Levi-Strauss , Doreen Weightman (translator) , John Weightman (translator)

Le Morte D'Arthur

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Le Morte D'Arthur

By Thomas Malory , William Caxton (editor) ,

Nicholas and Alexandra

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Nicholas and Alexandra

By Robert K. Massie ,

Norwegian Wood

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Norwegian Wood

By Haruki Murakami ,

Bomb

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Bomb

By Steve Sheinkin ,

Holy Blood, Holy Grail

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Holy Blood, Holy Grail

By Richard Leigh , Henry Lincoln , Michael Baigent

Factfulness

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Factfulness

By Hans Rosling , Anna Rosling Rönnlund , Ola Rosling

The Druids

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The Druids

By Peter Berresford Ellis ,

Big Magic

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Big Magic

By Elizabeth Gilbert ,

The WEIRDest People in the World

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The WEIRDest People in the World

By Joseph Henrich ,

Lincoln on the Verge

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Lincoln on the Verge

By Ted Widmer ,

Homage to Catalonia

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Homage to Catalonia

By George Orwell ,

The Map of Knowledge

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The Map of Knowledge

By Violet Moller ,

Guns, Germs, and Steel

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

By Jared Diamond ,

Art & Fear

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Art & Fear

By Ted Orland , David Bayles ,

Practical Ethics

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Practical Ethics

By Peter Singer ,

Quiet

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Quiet

By Susan Cain ,

Persian Fire

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Persian Fire

By Tom Holland ,

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By Milan Kundera ,

Travels with My Aunt

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Travels with My Aunt

By Graham Greene ,

When Breath Becomes Air

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When Breath Becomes Air

By Paul Kalanithi ,

The Path to Power

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The Path to Power

By Robert A. Caro ,

The Divided Self

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The Divided Self

By R.D. Laing ,

Crying in H Mart

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Crying in H Mart

By Michelle Zauner ,

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

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The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

By Margareta Magnusson ,