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 Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts, and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching

The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts, and Other Literary Curiosities from History

Edward Brooke-Hitching

256 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history reference adventurous slow-paced
The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys, The True Story by Dean King

The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys, The True Story

Dean King

430 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography historical history challenging emotional informative slow-paced
The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades by Paul M. Cobb

The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades

Paul M. Cobb

335 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom by Ramachandra Guha

Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom

Ramachandra Guha

476 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry

Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe

Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry

9 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism by Benjamin E. Park

American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

Benjamin E. Park

16 hours, 42 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history religion medium-paced
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Gerard Prunier

Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe

Gerard Prunier

529 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging emotional slow-paced
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography by Miriam Pawel

The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography

Miriam Pawel

548 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel

Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity

Walter Scheidel

696 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction economics history informative slow-paced
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk

Istanbul: Memories and the City

Orhan Pamuk

384 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction memoir reflective slow-paced