25 Nonfiction Books to Read in 2025

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Anne Fadiman

Cooked

Michael Pollan

Tender at the Bone

Ruth Reichl

Oaxaca Journal

Oliver Sacks

The Song of the Cell

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Better

Atul Gawande

Dead Wake

Erik Larson

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Katherine Boo

The Witches

Stacy Schiff

The Fires of Vesuvius

Mary Beard

Franklin and Eleanor

Hazel Rowley

The 900 Days

Harrison E. Salisbury

Boom Town

Sam Anderson

Flash Boys

Michael Lewis

One Two Three Four

Craig Brown

We Don’t Know Ourselves

Fintan O’Toole

The Hare with Amber Eyes

Edmund de Waal

The Woman They Could Not Silence

Kate Moore

Fire Weather

John Vaillant

Desert Solitaire

Edward Abbey

The Hidden Life of Trees

Peter Wohlleben

Contagious

Jonah Berger

The Princess Diarist

Carrie Fisher

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado