top | item 46333895 Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2025 5 points| koevet | 2 months ago What are your favorite nonfiction books of 2025 (Read in 2025)? 4 comments order hn newest nephihaha|2 months ago Have mostly read novels this year, but when I have read non-fiction it was mostly extracts for my personal research, not necessarily cover to cover.I will try to give a wide range:* "The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation" by Fred Pearce. A very different view of ecosystems.* "In the Land of Invented Languages" by Arika Okrent. Very entertaining.* "Bully Inc." by Peter Burnett* "The Radium Girls" by Kate MooreI have also read a lot of Biblical Pseudepigrapha and some works from the Ethiopian canon. chistev|2 months ago Read in 2025 -Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas and Mark OlshakerNuclear War: A Scenario by Annie JacobsenNight by Elie WieselI'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette Mccurdy (A re-read. Read it first in 2022) eimrine|2 months ago Noam Chomsky (114 books)Check this name in any tpb clone. I appreciate this man and all of his works. nephihaha|2 months ago Time will tell, he's in the Epstein files and took money off him.
nephihaha|2 months ago Have mostly read novels this year, but when I have read non-fiction it was mostly extracts for my personal research, not necessarily cover to cover.I will try to give a wide range:* "The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation" by Fred Pearce. A very different view of ecosystems.* "In the Land of Invented Languages" by Arika Okrent. Very entertaining.* "Bully Inc." by Peter Burnett* "The Radium Girls" by Kate MooreI have also read a lot of Biblical Pseudepigrapha and some works from the Ethiopian canon.
chistev|2 months ago Read in 2025 -Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas and Mark OlshakerNuclear War: A Scenario by Annie JacobsenNight by Elie WieselI'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette Mccurdy (A re-read. Read it first in 2022)
eimrine|2 months ago Noam Chomsky (114 books)Check this name in any tpb clone. I appreciate this man and all of his works. nephihaha|2 months ago Time will tell, he's in the Epstein files and took money off him.
nephihaha|2 months ago
I will try to give a wide range:
* "The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation" by Fred Pearce. A very different view of ecosystems.
* "In the Land of Invented Languages" by Arika Okrent. Very entertaining.
* "Bully Inc." by Peter Burnett
* "The Radium Girls" by Kate Moore
I have also read a lot of Biblical Pseudepigrapha and some works from the Ethiopian canon.
chistev|2 months ago
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
Night by Elie Wiesel
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette Mccurdy (A re-read. Read it first in 2022)
eimrine|2 months ago
Check this name in any tpb clone. I appreciate this man and all of his works.
nephihaha|2 months ago