25 History Books in 2025

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01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

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Read 25 nonfiction history books in 2025.

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The Penguin Book of Pirates by Katherine Howe

The Penguin Book of Pirates

Katherine Howe

400 pages • 3 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 • 2024 • 6 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 • 2024 • 5 editions

nonfiction feminism history informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
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 • 2018 • 7 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 • 2008 • 1 edition

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 • 2020 • 14 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 • 2018 • 10 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 • 2003 • 22 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 • 2014 • 2 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 • 2022 • 11 editions

nonfiction biography history informative reflective medium-paced