This week’s Nonfiction November 2025 festivities are being hosted over on Deb Nance’s site, ReaderBuzz, with the prompt being:

“New To My TBR:  It’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books! Which ones have made it onto your TBR?”

What a great month it’s been, and I feel exhausted! So many great new reads, conversations, and fun new blogs to follow. 

November is always a good time of year to have this event, as it gives us all a little time to add a few new titles to our wish lists. I’m already excited about next year’s reading. Over the 4 weeks of the event, I collected a list of 23 titles that sound like really good reads. I cut that down a bit and am sharing an “up first for me” list of ten titles, with links to the blogs where I read about them. These are all books that I hope to read sooner rather than later:

1. Bookish by Lucy Mangan 
2. Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound by Kate Kennedy
3. The CIA Book Club by Charlie English
4. Strongmen by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
5. Cull of the Wild by Hugh Warwick 
6. A Year With Gilbert White by Jenny Uglow. 
7. We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite by Musa al-Gharbi
8. Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist by Aldous Huxley 
9. The Common Good by Robert Reich
10. The Quiet Damage by Jesselyn Cook 

I was encouraged by some of the recurring themes and books folks, from across the globe, were reading. There were lots of books on the history of fascism/resistance/current affairs as well as nature. While not an official count, I did track the titles I saw pop up most often, and these had the most ticks on my notepad:

• Raising Hare
• Everything is Tuberculosis
• On Tyranny

Thank you to all the hosts this year. It really was fun. I hope you found some good reads this November, and I hope you have a fun place online to share your thoughts and reading. Thank you for stopping by and reading my posts during Nonfiction November 2025!

Here are the links to my earlier Nonfiction November 2025 posts:

• Week One
• Week Two
• Week Three
• Week Four

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