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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Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition by Nisid Hajari

Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition

Nisid Hajari

304 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East by Amanda H. Podany

Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

Amanda H. Podany

18 hours, 26 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography history adventurous challenging informative medium-paced
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin

916 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough

Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence

Bryan Burrough

588 pages • first pub 2015 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond by Shaun Tougher

Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond

Shaun Tougher

282 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction essays gender history medium-paced
Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education by Jonathan Zimmerman

Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education

Jonathan Zimmerman

216 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative slow-paced
The Pleasure's All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex by Julie Peakman

The Pleasure's All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex

Julie Peakman

472 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Penguin Book of Pirates by Katherine Howe

The Penguin Book of Pirates

Katherine Howe

400 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

Evan Friss

403 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction business history hopeful informative medium-paced
Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff

Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance

Ramie Targoff

320 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history informative inspiring reflective medium-paced