History Challenge

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13 participants (53 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read as many non-fiction history books as you can through the year.

Challenge Books

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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Michelle Obama

336 pages • 2022 • 45 editions

nonfiction memoir self help hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

Amity Shlaes

390 pages • 2007 • 6 editions

nonfiction economics history politics informative slow-paced
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Philip Gourevitch

355 pages • 1998 • 25 editions

nonfiction history emotional informative sad slow-paced
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax

The Railway Man

Eric Lomax

294 pages • 1995 • 14 editions

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nonfiction biography history emotional slow-paced
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Stephen E. Ambrose

336 pages • 1992 • 46 editions

nonfiction history adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom

The Hiding Place

Corrie ten Boom

271 pages • 1971 • 53 editions

nonfiction autobiography history emotional inspiring sad slow-paced
Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman

Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

Helena Merriman

352 pages • 2021 • 15 editions

nonfiction history emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

Judy Batalion

576 pages • 2021 • 15 editions

nonfiction history emotional informative sad slow-paced
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

Edith Hahn Beer

346 pages • 1999 • 20 editions

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nonfiction biography history dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy

The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews

Peter Duffy

302 pages • 2003 • 4 editions

nonfiction biography history adventurous dark emotional medium-paced