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Must-Read Books of 2025: Nonfiction

Let us be your guides to the year's buzziest nonfiction. These are the year's top picks from readers, reviewers & awards groups.

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  • 1929

    Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History-- and How It Shattered a Nation

    Sorkin, Andrew Ross
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Viking, [2025] — HB37171929.S67 2025
  • 38 Londres Street

    on Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia

    Sands, Philippe, 1960-
    Book, 2025New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. — K543.P6S26 2025
  • Book, 2025New York : Avid Reader Press, 2025. — HC106.84.K65 2025
  • Aflame

    Learning From Silence

    Iyer, Pico,
    Book, 2025New York : Riverhead Books, 2025. — BL628.2.I84 2025
  • America, América

    a New History of the New World

    Grandin, Greg, 1962-
    Paperback, 2025New York : Penguin Press, 2025. — E18.G74 2025
  • Apple in China

    the Capture of the World's Greatest Company /

    McGee, Patrick,
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Scribner, 2025. — HD9696.2.U64A6744 2025
  • Art Work

    on the Creative Life

    Mann, Sally, 1951-
    Book, 2025New York : Abrams Press, 2025. — TR140.M345A3 2025
  • Bad Company

    Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream /

    Greenwell, Megan,
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2025] — HG4751.G743 2025
  • The Beast in the Clouds

    the Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda

    Holt, Nathalia, 1980-
    Book, 2025New York, NY : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2025. — QL737.C27H6496 2025
  • Black in Blues

    How a Color Tells the Story of My People

    Perry, Imani, 1972-
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPulishers, [2025] — E185.86.P476 2025
  • Black Moses

    a Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State /

    Gayle, Caleb
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Riverhead Books, [2025] — F699.M18G38 2025
  • Capitalism and Its Critics

    a History : From the Industrial Revolution to AI

    Cassidy, John, 1963-
    Book, 2025New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. — HB501.C293 2025
  • Careless People

    a Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

    Wynn-Williams, Sarah,
    Book, 2025New York : Flatiron Books, [2025] — HM743.F33W95 2025
  • Book, 2025New York : Penguin Press, 2025. — PR6069.M59D43 2025
  • Dinner With King Tut

    How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations

    Kean, Sam,
    Book, 2025New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025. — CC81.5.K43 2025
  • Empire of AI

    Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI /

    Hao, Karen,
    Book, 2025New York : Penguin Press, 2025. — Q334.7.H36 2025
  • Everything Is Tuberculosis

    the History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

    Green, John, 1977-
    Book, 2025New York, New York : Crash Course Books, 2025. — RC311.G85 2025
  • The Fate of the Day

    the War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780

    Atkinson, Rick,
    Book, 2025New York : Crown, [2025] — E230.A846 2025
  • A Flower Traveled in My Blood

    the Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children

    Cohen Gilliland, Haley, 1989-
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Avid Reader Press, 2025. — HV6322.3.A7C63 2025