25 History Books in 2025

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01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read 25 nonfiction history books in 2025.

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Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West by John Boessenecker

Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West

John Boessenecker

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous fast-paced
Profiles in Folly: History's Worst Decisions and Why They Went Wrong by Alan Axelrod

Profiles in Folly: History's Worst Decisions and Why They Went Wrong

Alan Axelrod

368 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective fast-paced
The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden

The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

Chris Gosden

492 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts by Ruth Goodman

How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts

Ruth Goodman

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Victoria Finlay

464 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction art history science informative reflective slow-paced
Benjamin "bugsy" Siegel: The Gangster, the Flamingo, and the Making of Modern Las Vegas by Larry D. Gragg

Benjamin "bugsy" Siegel: The Gangster, the Flamingo, and the Making of Modern Las Vegas

Larry D. Gragg

200 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

informative medium-paced
Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to Egyptian Queen by Jane Draycott

Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to Egyptian Queen

Jane Draycott

304 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective medium-paced
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Hallie Rubenhold

432 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

The Oxford History of the United States #4

James M. McPherson

909 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science

Sam Kean

384 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history science true crime informative medium-paced