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 Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World by Paul Robert Walker

The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World

Paul Robert Walker

304 pages • 2002 • 5 editions

nonfiction art history adventurous reflective slow-paced
The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President by Jill Wine-Banks

The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President

Jill Wine-Banks

8h • 2020 • 6 editions

nonfiction history memoir politics informative reflective medium-paced
The Indomitable Florence Finch: The Untold Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter and Savior of American POWs by Robert J. Mrazek

The Indomitable Florence Finch: The Untold Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter and Savior of American POWs

Robert J. Mrazek

10h 19m • 2020 • 4 editions

nonfiction history emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Tribes: An International Hockey History by Darril Fosty, George Fosty

Tribes: An International Hockey History

Darril Fosty, George Fosty

298 pages • 2 editions

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nonfiction sports medium-paced
The Women Who Wrote the War by Nancy Caldwell Sorel, Arcade Publishing Staff

The Women Who Wrote the War

Nancy Caldwell Sorel, Arcade Publishing Staff

14h 30m • 1999 • 4 editions

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nonfiction history informative inspiring slow-paced
Separate: The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation by Steve Luxenberg

Separate: The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation

Steve Luxenberg

19h 39m • 2019 • 5 editions

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nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld by Dan Slater

The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

Dan Slater

11h 13m • 2024 • 4 editions

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nonfiction history medium-paced
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End by Robert Gerwarth

The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End

Robert Gerwarth

10h 49m • 2016 • 4 editions

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nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

John W. Dower

21h 38m • 1999 • 10 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Annette Gordon-Reed

30h 36m • 2008 • 8 editions

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced