Readings 2025 - Nonfiction

My total books read for 2025 was 60 and 20 of them were Nonfiction that included books on current events, history, music, biographies and memoirs. 

I read several books on music as usual and some musician memoirs. Also some books on the ongoing trump dystopia. I always like reading some interesting history books. And some biographies and memoirs.

1. Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist - Liz Pelly, 2025
2. And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey - Studs Terkel, 2005
3. Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department - Carol Leonnig, 2025
4. Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife - Bart Ehrman, 2020
5. Lawless: How the Supreme Courts Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories and Bad Vibes - Leah Litman, 2025
6. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism - Sarah Wynn-Williams, 2025
7. Impresario: The Life and Times of Ed Sullivan - James McGuire, 2006
8. St Mark's Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street - Ada Calhoun, 2015
9. Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 - Kevin Kruse, 2019
10. Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape: Deep Roots, Continuing Legacy - Amy Jane Cohen, 2024
11. Lynch on Lynch - David Lynch, 1997
12. Abundance: How Be Build A Better Future - Erza Kline, 2025
13. Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSN&Y and The Lost Story of 1970 - David Brown, 2011
14. The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump - Clay Cane, 2024
15. The Mayor of MacDougal Street: A Memoir - Dave Van Ronk, 2005
16. Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crises - Robert D. Kaplan, 2025
17. The Nineties - Chuck Klosterman, 2022
18. The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur - Scott Greenberg, 2017
19. Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want To Rule The World - Anne Applebaum, 2024
20. Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000 Year History of Iraq - Bartle Bull, 2024