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Nonfiction that's actually fun to read
These are some of my favorites and books I want to read--nonfiction that reads like fiction or is otherwise compelling. If you're intimidated by books on history, science, memoir, or other subgenres in nonfiction, start here.
NPR’s Books We Love 2025
Books We Love from NPR began in 2013, always boasting over 200 books (almost 400 in recent years) featuring genres from memoirs, to cookbooks, to graphic novels, to children’s literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPR’s website to filter this massive list.
The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.
human inquiry into nature
Animal Nonfiction 🐾
Nonfiction books to understand our fellow animals and, through them, ourselves
Nature & Rewilding 💚
All about wildlife, nature, and restoring what we humans have lost. Attempting to include mostly inspirational books, but some may be harder hitting.
more than man's best friend
non-fiction books about personal experiences and connections made with wild animals. books were chosen based on the relationship between author and animal, mostly from rehabilitation perspectives or what we can learn from them.
Good Reads Choice Awards 2025
Nominees and winners of every category of the Good Reads Choice Awards for the year of 2025. Some books overlap so they were only entered once.
“Bunny” Deep Dive
A mythological deep dive into the magical world of Bunny by Mona Awad
B&N Picks
Books that were/are Barnes & Noble Monthly Picks, Books of the year, Hot Coffee Hot Books, or Book Club picks.
Notable Nonfiction Books of 2025
Nonfiction books from The New York Times' "100 Notable Books of 2025" list
Note: I will be deleting my PB account within the next two weeks, and I believe this list will be erased. Feel free to screenshot it if you see anything that interests you! ☺️ 3/17/2026
The Wainwright Prize Shortlists 2025
All the adult Nature and Conservation books that made it to The Wainwright Prize shortlists in 2025.
Non-Humans & Empathy (Non-Fiction)
One of several Non-Humans & Empathy -themed lists by @Myth.Ink (See also: Fiction, GNs/Manga+, Youth Titles, Creature Feature, & the Official @Myth.Ink Curation) | This list is the NON-FICTION edition, including real interactions and considerations of interactions between non-human beings of all types (trees, robots, animals, ai, aliens, creatures, etc) and humans, empathy and lack thereof. | Suggestions more than welcome!
Nature, wildlife and the outdoors
Nature, wildlife, outdoors and countryside books. Read at your leisure. Mostly non-fiction with a few fiction.
Scientific American’s Best Nonfiction of 2025
The 10 best nonfiction books of 2025, from the history of replaceable body parts to our AI future. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-americans-best-nonfiction-of-2025/
Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
Shortlisted books
The Champaca Reading Challenge
Champaca Bookstore’s 2026 Reading Challenge.
This year, join us in reading a book: that’s a coming-of-age story about sea creatures that was previously banned about technology by José Saramgo, Toni Morrison, or Eunice de Souza set in extreme weather conditions about time travel about language about the means of production with an animal on the cover about flying about cities
Memoirs
Memoirs not released in 2026
Humans & nature stories
Beasts 🐰
Charlie Byrne’s Book Shop
Book club & staff picks by the famous bookstore in Galway (June 2026)
