The 2025 Nonfiction Reader Challenge Completed

This year, for the 5th time, I took on the Nonfiction Reader Challenge, hosted by Shelleyrae at Book’d Out (https://bookdout.wordpress.com/).

I’ve read 10 books in 8 of the categories of this year’s Challenge, which I guess makes me a “Nonfiction Nibbler” (with a few more bites). 

My Challenge wrap-up is:

Memoir/Biography

• Madly, Deeply

Health

• The Remarkable Life of the Skin

True Crime

• The Peep Show: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place

Islands

• The Island at the Center of the World

Science

• Neanderthal Man
• The World Before Us

Myth, Legend and Folklore

• Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw
• Robin Hood: Legend and Reality

Travel

• The Ship of Dreams

Garden

• Good Nature

I savored all the books I read (what a wonderful reading year!), and enjoyed the variety of categories. So I can’t say which is my favorite. Now I’ve already started my TBR pile for the 2026 Challenge.