2025 Round Up: Favourite Nonfiction

Ideas, people, places. Here are the top titles that resonated with us in 2025.

Updated January 9, 2026
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2025 Round Up: Favourite Nonfiction

Ideas, people, places. Here are the top titles that resonated with us in 2025.

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Apple in China : the capture of the world's greatest company
McGee, Patrick
Paper Book
"Phenomenal...a jaw-dropping book." --Jon Stewart, The Daily Show Named by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Prospect magazine as a best book of the year, this "scrupulously reported" (The New Yorker) and...
Between two rivers : ancient Mesopotamia and the birth of history
Al-Rashid, Moudhy N.
Paper Book
Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time. What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity, like the earliest depiction of a...
Book of Lives : A Memoir of Sorts
Atwood, Margaret.
Paper Book
A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR FROM NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, THE CHIGACO TRIBUNE, TIME MAGAZINE, PEOPLE, NEW YORK MAGAZINE,...
A marriage at sea : a true story of love, obsession, and shipwreck
Elmhirst, Sophie
Paper Book
THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025 ALSO NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY NPR, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, AND MORE "This is nonfiction that...
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Roy, Arundhati
Paper Book
Named One of the New York Times Book Review's Top Ten Books of 2025 Finalist for the Kirkus Prize A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces her...
Nobody's girl : a memoir of surviving abuse and fighting for justice
Giuffre, Virginia Roberts
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The unforgettable memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who dared to take on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell "Make no mistake: this is a book about power, corruption, industrial-scale sex abuse and the way in which...
One day, everyone will have always been against this
El Akkad, Omar
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION * Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction * Longlisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 * A...
Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers
Di Cintio, Marcello
Paper Book
A Globe 100 Best Book of 2025 * One of The Hill Times' Top 100 Best Books in 2025 * Winner of the 2024 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book Award A series of profiles of foreign workers illuminates the precarity of global systems of migrant labor and the vulnerability of their most...
The serviceberry : abundance and reciprocity in the natural world
Kimmerer, Robin Wall
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world....
The sirens' call : how attention became the world's most endangered resource
Hayes, Christopher
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times Bestseller * One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has...
A Truce That Is Not Peace
Toews, Miriam
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * FINALIST FOR THE 2025 HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY * TIME's 10 Best Books of 2025 * Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Globe and Mail * CBC * The New Yorker *...
We Survived the Night
NoiseCat, Julian Brave
Paper Book
A stunning narrative from one of the most powerful young writers at work today, and the director of the Oscar®-nominated documentary, Sugarcane, We Survived the Night interweaves oral history with hard-hitting journalism and a deeply personal father-son journey into a searing...
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