We love reading nonfiction books with our book clubs to broaden our horizens, learn something new, and above all spark a great discussion.
Here are some of the nonfiction titles we're most excited about reading and discussing together in 2025. Be sure to bookmark this page and check back again as we add additional titles releasing later in the year.
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The Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book Club Books of 2025
The following titles are listed in order of publication date.
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Black in Blues by Imani Perry
Publication date: January 28, 2025
A meditation on the color blue--and its role in Black history and culture--from National Book Award-winner Imani Perry, who traces both blue and Blackness from their earliest roots to their embodiments of contemporary culture, drawing from her own life as well as art and history
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes
Publication date: January 28, 2025
The author and MSNBC host reckons with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society. Hayes lays out how our attention is extracted as we become increasingly distracted and addicted to our phones -- and what the human costs are.
Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
Publication date: January 29, 2025
A memoir of loss and grief from the acclaimed fiction author (Horse, March). Brooks ponders the various ways in which cultures grieve and what rituals of her own might help to rebuild a life around the void of her husband's sudden death.
Source Code by Bill Gates
Publication date: February 4, 2025
The billionaire tech mogul and philanthropist tells his own story for the first time, relating his his childhood, his early passions and pursuits and what shaped him into who he is today.
I'll Have What She's Having by Chelsea Handler
Publication date: February 25, 2025
This set of essays from the comedian and author blends hilarity and vulnerability as Handler relates outrageous anecdotes from her life.
Saving Five by Amanda Nguyen
Publication date: March 4, 2025
A memoir of survival and hope that braids the story of Nguyen's activism after a rape at Harvard--which resulted in Congress's unanimous passage of the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act in 2016--with stories of Nguyen's younger selves as they--at ages five, fifteen, twenty-two, and thirty--navigate healing, not only from her rape but from the violent turmoil of her childhood.
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne
Publication date: March 4, 2025
A family memori that investigates the dark legacy of the author's great-grandfather, a talented German-Jewish chemist who wound up developing chemical weapons and gas mask filters for the Nazis.
Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
Publication date: March 18, 2025
From the author of The Anthropocene Reviewed (and of The Fault in Our Stars), comes the true story of Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient in Sierra Leone, interwoven with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world.
Who Is Government? by Michael Lewis
Publication date: March 18, 2025
Michael Lewis (Moneyball, The Big Short) curates this all-star anthology (featuring W. Kamau Bell, Geraldine Brooks, Dave Eggers and more). Each profiles someone doing an interesting, behind-the-scenes job for the government, from preventing mine roof collapses, to chasing down cybercriminals, to discovering new planets.
Matriarch by Tina Knowles
Publication date: April 22, 2025
Memoir from the mother of the queen herself. Tina Knowles, mother of Beyoncé and Solange, outlines her life story from growing up in 1950s Galveston Texas to raising some of the greatest artists of our time.
The Anthony Bourdain Reader by Anthony Bourdain
Publication date: May 13, 2025
A definitive compendium of the beloved food and travel writer's best writing, edited by his longtime editor and with a new introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe (Empire of Pain).
Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
Publication date: May 13, 2025
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer (Alexander Hamilton, Grant) sets his sights on the father of American literature, Mark Twain, tracing his origins as Samuel Langhorne Clemens through his journalism career and rise to literary and political prominance, all overlaid against the growth of America.