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25 History Books in 2025

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12 participants (119 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read 25 nonfiction history books in 2025.

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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
William Blake Vs the World by John Higgs

William Blake Vs the World

John Higgs

400 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography history philosophy psychology informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century by Lydia Edwards

How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century

Lydia Edwards

288 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
How to Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman

How to Be a Victorian

How to Be #1

Ruth Goodman

458 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history reference reflective slow-paced
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

Time Traveller's Guides #1

Ian Mortimer

319 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners by Laura Claridge

Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners

Laura Claridge

525 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit by Robert Bogdan

Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit

Robert Bogdan

336 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Richard Holmes

380 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative slow-paced