Monday, January 5, 2026

Top Ten Nonfiction Reads of 2025


I'm linking up with That Artsy Reader Girl for another Top Ten Tuesday.

Last week, I shared my favorite fiction reads of 2025. Here are my top ten nonfiction reads from the year!

To read more about why I liked these nonfiction books, you can search for them on the blog or check out my Goodreads. (To see my favorite read every month with a detailed description of why I liked it, I encourage you to check out — and link up with — the Best of the Bunch linkup.)
1. Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski
2. Do You Still Talk to Grandma? by Brit Barron
3. Enough by Tiffany North
4. How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis
5. More Than Two (second edition) by Eve Rickert and Andrea Zanin
6. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
7. The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
8. Unfit Parent by Jessica Slice
9. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
10. Who Deserves Your Love by KC Davis

What great nonfiction did you read this year?

Looking back:
One year ago I was reading: Chain-Gang All-Stars, Bad Blood, and Big Jim Begins
Five years ago I was reading: Autobiography of a Face, The Baby Signing Book, and Feminist, Queer, Crip
Ten years ago I was reading: Lonesome Dove, The Quran, and Middlemarch