25 History Books in 2025

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12 participants, 98 books added

Starts: Wednesday, 01 January 2025

Ends: Wednesday, 31 December 2025

Read 25 nonfiction history books in 2025.

All books added
Separate: The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation by Steve Luxenberg

Separate: The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation

Steve Luxenberg

19 hours, 39 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld by Dan Slater

The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

Dan Slater

11 hours, 13 minutes • missing pub info (editions) user-added

nonfiction history medium-paced
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End by Robert Gerwarth

The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End

Robert Gerwarth

10 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

John W. Dower

21 hours, 38 minutes • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Annette Gordon-Reed

798 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry Into the Fall of France in 1940 by William L. Shirer

The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry Into the Fall of France in 1940

William L. Shirer

48 hours, 10 minutes • first pub 1959 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully

Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway

Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully

24 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
All the President's Men by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

All the President's Men

Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

480 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography by Peter Green

Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography

Peter Green

666 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Henrietta Maria by Leanda de Lisle

Henrietta Maria

Leanda de Lisle

13 hours • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography history