The Non-Fiction You Need to Read in 2025

Ranging from biography to lifestyle to popular science, 2025 sees some our favourite non-fiction writers returning with exciting new titles. Hallie Rubenhold's award-winning The Five has become a pioneering touchstone of the historical true crime genre and The Story of a Murder promises a similarly gripping, revisionist narrative, whilst Robert Macfarlane builds on the success of his bestselling nature titles such as Underland and The Old Ways in the revelatory Is a River Alive? In health and lifestyle, Davina McCall follows up the vitally important Menopausing with a though-provoking exploration of conception and pregnancy, politics leads with another ferociously intelligent polemic from the author of the seminal Between the World and Me, and in popular science acclaimed broadcaster and journalist Naga Munchetty lays bare the deep roots of medical misogyny.