2025 Top 10 Non-Fiction Books on CD

The top 10 items checked out from our non-fiction physical audiobook collection

Updated December 18, 2025
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1

The Demon of Unrest : A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Larson, Erik/ Patton, Will (NRT)/ Larson, Erik (NRT)
Audiobook
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this "riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult" (Los Angeles Times). ...

2

The gentle art of Swedish death cleaning : how to free yourself and your family from a lifetime of clutter
Magnusson, Margareta (Artist)
Paper Book
The original, official, bestselling guide to Swedish death cleaning--a charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life. In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called...

3

The year of magical thinking
Didion, Joan
Audiobook
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then...

4

Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
Vance, J. D.
Audiobook

5

Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail /
Strayed, Cheryl, 1968-
Paper Book
NATIONAL BEST SELLER * Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. * A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the...

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