How to Survive Against the Odds
Wondery
Published 2025
304 pages
The most popular exploration & adventure books of 2025
These are true stories of people who went to the edge. Polar expeditions, mountain climbs, ocean crossings, jungle treks and survival against the odds are told by those who were there or by writers who followed their trail. Gripping, humbling and often hard to put down. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.
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World History for Kids Powerful Leaders, Mysterious Empires, and Exciting Explorations—from Ancient Egypt to the Americas
Brooke Khan
Published 2025
176 pages
American History for Kids Exploration, Battles, Tragedies, and Triumphs—from Native Nations to the U.S.A.
Stacia Deutsch
Published 2025
176 pages
Top Cop Kills
DeWitt Henry
Published 2025
220 pages
The Unforgiving Hours
Shannon Hogan
Published 2025
304 pages
The Lieutenant Nun (New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture)
Published 2025
286 pages
Diary of a Zoo Vet Panda Checkups, Escaping Chimps and Life in the Wildest Clinic on Earth
Tim Bouts
Published 2025
224 pages
One Hand for Jenny Volume 1
Stanley Sieja
Published 2025
156 pages
Parallel Lives
Jennifer Andrewes
Published 2025
236 pages
Sea Yarns
Joshua N. (Joshua Nickerson) Taylor
Published 2025
76 pages
A Choreographic Journey of Survival and Triumph
Shimon Braun, Meghan Braun
Published 2025
297 pages
Letter from Japan
Marie Kondo, Marie Iida
Published 2025
320 pages
The Gold Rush for Kids Facts and Adventures of the California Gold Rush in America for Young Readers
TRUETIME. PRESS
Published 2025
76 pages
Pots, Pans, and Five-Year Plans My Journey from Dishwasher to CEO
HAITHAM. MATTAR
Published 2025
164 pages
Ordinary Eccentricity
G M Baker
Published 2025
284 pages
The Hawk Against The Dove Addiction in Small-Town Ireland
James Mahon
Published 2025
134 pages
Ken Morrow Miracle Gold, Four Stanley Cups, and a Lifetime of Islanders Hockey
Ken Morrow, Allan Kreda
Published 2025
256 pages
Moments of Knowing A Memoir
Mary Helen Fein
Published 2025
224 pages
Sri Lanka
Eleonore Breukel
Published 2025
196 pages
Journey of a Lifetime Volume I
Martin Kari
Published 2025
258 pages
Becoming Danish A 12 Month Exchange - a Lifetime Legacy
John Campbell
Published 2025
228 pages
Seven Days in Golf Paradise My Trip of a Lifetime to Ireland
Jim Hartley
Published 2025
200 pages
Maps of Dreams and Dreams of Maps Stories from a Lifetime of Wilderness Paddling
Jonathan Berger
Published 2025
252 pages
Bengali on a Roadster Fuel Fog and Feelings
Bideep Roy
Published 2025
26 pages