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readwithneleh on Instagram: "Finally dropping my favorite books of 2025 and we begin with NONFICTION. It was really hard to rank my top reads. While I knew my f…" Finally dropping my favorite books of 2025 and we begin with NONFICTION. It was really hard to rank my top reads. While I knew my favorite nonfiction book of 2025 was Alexander Chee’s HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL, numbers 2-5 were HARD because I was just splitting hairs at this point. 10. NO MORE TEARS: THE DARK SECRETS OF JOHNSON & JOHNSON by Gardiner Harris9. A FLOWER TRAVELED IN MY BLOOD: THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE GRANDMOTHERS WHO FOUGHT TO FIND A STOLEN GENERATION OF CHILDREN by Haley Cohen Gilliland8. FEEDING GHOSTS: A GRAPHIC MEMOIR by Tessa Hulls7. THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW by Yiyun Li6. LETTERS FROM GAZA edited by Mohammed Al-Zaqzooq and Mahmoud Alshaer5. ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad4. I’LL LOVE YOU FOREVER: NOTES FROM A K-POP FAN by Giaae Kwon3. SAD TIGER by Neige Sinno, tr. by Natasha Lehrer2. DICTEE by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha1. HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL: ESSAYS by Alexander CheeI think every book on this list was amazing and would recommend them all over and over again. Please pick up any one of these if you haven’t done so already. https://www.instagram.com/p/DTc3cwtFOBw/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==