MonthlyNonFiction2025

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It | Cory Doctorow

#TodayILearned about the enormous progress made in antitrust regulation by the Biden administration, primarily because people were fighting hard for it. Going to try to hold onto that optimistic thought because I am, frankly, depressed AF by the actions of the Democrats.

Very readable and interesting book, though I'm not sure that helpful for the average non-techy person.

#NonFictionNovember @BookwormJillK
#MonthlyNonfiction2025 @julieclair

Bookwormjillk A couple of people mentioned this book. I need to look it up. 1d

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peanutnine

Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8 | Stephanie Harvey

October #MonthlyNonfiction2025 reads @julieclair
Reviews to come, but I wanted to get my wrap-up posted before I forgot!

julieclair I have been wanting to read the librarians, and something in the woods looks lovely! Both look like excellent choices. 1w

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TheBookgeekFrau

October | Gregory Bastianelli

October Wrap-Up

Total Read: 8
✔️ #BookSpin
✔️#DoubleSpin
6 TBRs
2 DNFs
2 5 Star reads

And I finished #MonthlyNonfiction2025 Thank you @julieclair for hosting!

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025

DieAReader, TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!! 2w

DieAReader Excellent! Great job🥳🎉 2w

julieclair Good for you! Thanks for participating. Reading nonfiction with everyone has helped me to read more of it myself. 1w

TheBookgeekFrau @julieclair 😊 1w

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julieclair

Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8 | Stephanie Harvey

Hello Nonfiction fans! What will everyone be reading for November?

For those who like to plan ahead, I will be continuing #MonthlyNonfiction2025 next year, but dropping the year from the name, so the new hashtag will be simply #MonthlyNonfiction. Same rules: read at least one nonfiction book each month. I‘ll do a StoryGraph challenge as well, for those who like to track that way.

Sarahreadstoomuch, rockpools, kspenmoll, mhillis, Gissy, Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick, ferskner, Lauredhel, TEArificbooks, MonicaLoves2Read, Rissreadswithcats, TheBookgeekFrau, TheAromaofBooks, peanutnine, willaful

julieclair I‘ll be reading

Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation

mcctrish I always forget this 🤦🏻‍♀️ 3w

TheBookgeekFrau I finished the challenge this month with

The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up

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rockpools Thanks for the tag 😊. Tracking things is completely beyond me at the moment, but my November NF read will either be this one about the importance of racial diversity in children‘s books (and classic literature etc):

BEYOND THE SECRET GARDEN.

rockpools Or, if I actually get that read in October, Novembers might be about swifts, and the campaign to make swift bricks compulsory in uk new-builds. Although having just opened it, the font size is horrible, so I may not get through it…

Nature Needs You: The Fight to Save Our Swifts

ferskner I failed miserably this year (due to other reading projects) but I'm eager to try again next year! 3w

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I wanted to read 1 NF book per month this year, and that didn't happen. Fingers crossed that I do better next year. 🤦🏼‍♀️ 3w

Rissreadswithcats It has been a very busy year this year for me so I haven‘t reached my goal but I‘m keen to try again next year! 🩷 3w

TheAromaofBooks While I have done a terrible job posting about it, I've actually been keeping up on this challenge!! I haven't picked out my November book yet, but I seem to have two shelves of biographies, so it shouldn't be a problem 😂 3w

julieclair @mcctrish I find that challenges like this one, where everyone reads a different book and there‘s no discussion, are easier to forget about. But I also love challenges like this because there‘s no pressure to keep up. I‘m definitely into no-stress low-key these days! 😘 3w

julieclair @TheBookgeekFrau I have been wanting to read that! 3w

julieclair @rockpools Both of these sound like important books. I had no idea swifts were endangered in Britain. 😢 3w

julieclair @ferskner @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @Rissreadswithcats I hear you! I missed some months, too, but overall I read more nonfiction than I would have without the challenge. Glad you‘re all continuing for 2026! 😀 3w

julieclair @TheAromaofBooks Woo hoo! And… the reading is more important than the posting. 😉 Two shelves of biographies…. obviously all shelved together…. you‘ve come a long way from earlier this year when you had moved to a new house and were randomly pulling books out of boxes, lol. Good work!👍 3w

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willaful

I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted | Jennifer Finney Boylan

Kind of an odd book. Boylen isn't that much older than me, but grew up in such a different world, it's hard to make sense of all the pieces of her memoir put together. I found myself questioning, “is this real?“ a lot. But she has a dry, Vonnegut-esque sense of humor, and there's an underlying poignancy that touched me very much. It's interesting as sort of a period piece and heartbreaking as a story about family.