Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2025

[koevet]

What are your favorite nonfiction books of 2025 (Read in 2025)?

[nephihaha]

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 Moore

I have also read a lot of Biblical Pseudepigrapha and some works from the Ethiopian canon.

[chistev]

Read in 2025 -

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]

Noam Chomsky (114 books)

Check this name in any tpb clone. I appreciate this man and all of his works.

[nephihaha]

Time will tell, he's in the Epstein files and took money off him.