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25 History Books in 2025

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12 participants (116 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read 25 nonfiction history books in 2025.

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The Women Who Wrote the War by Nancy Caldwell Sorel, Arcade Publishing Staff

The Women Who Wrote the War

Nancy Caldwell Sorel, Arcade Publishing Staff

14 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 1999 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history informative inspiring slow-paced
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

30 hours, 36 minutes • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

688 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative inspiring reflective medium-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
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