Week 1 (10/27-11/2) Your Year in Nonfiction: Celebrate your year of nonfiction. What books have you read? What were your favorites? Have you had a favorite topic? Is there a topic you want to read about more? What are you hoping to get out of participating in Nonfiction November? (Hosted by Heather at Based on a True Story.)
What books have you read?
I've read 94 nonfiction books out of a total of 251 books. That's 37%.
That's a little less than last year, but this year I read a lot of big nonfiction books, a couple of which were over 900 pages.
What were your favorites?
My Favorite Nonfiction of 2025:
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Day the World Came to Town:
by Jim DeFede
Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are
by Bill Sullivan
The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
by Michihiko Hachiya
The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by Ed Yong
by Dorianne Laux
by Amy Tan
A History of Europe Since 1945
by Tony Judt
by Chloe Dalton
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama:
Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
by Nathan Thrall
I also enjoyed these books of nonfiction for children: How to Write a Poem by Kwame Alexander; The Scraps Book by Lois Ehlert; Turtle Watch by George Ancona; The Universe in You (or anything by this author!) by Jason Chin; Slow Down and Be Here Now by Laura Brand; The Little Book of Little Activists; Growing Green: A First Book of Gardening by Daniela Sosa;
Have you had a favorite topic? Is there a topic you want to read about more?
I've read a lot of books in 2025 about books and writing; happiness; nature, especially birds; Paris; baking; and history. I'm always on the lookout for more good books about these topics.
What are you hoping to get out of participating in Nonfiction November?
I hope to find more good nonfiction. I hope you will share your favorites with me.
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