History Challenge

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21 participants (169 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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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account Of The Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account Of The Mt. Everest Disaster

Jon Krakauer

333 pages • paperback • 1997

nonfiction memoir sports travel adventurous sad tense medium-paced
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Judith Schiess Avila, Chester Nez

Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII

Judith Schiess Avila, Chester Nez

9 hours, 37 minutes • audio • 2011

nonfiction biography history emotional informative slow-paced
The American Revolution by Allen C. Guelzo

The American Revolution

Allen C. Guelzo

12 hours, 17 minutes • audio • 2008

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
Underwater Archaeology: Mysteries of the Deep by Dr. Ashley Lemke

Underwater Archaeology: Mysteries of the Deep

The Great Courses

Dr. Ashley Lemke

5 hours, 42 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction science
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir

The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn

Alison Weir

16 hours, 53 minutes • audio • 2009 user-added

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced
Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health by Adam Ratner

Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health

Adam Ratner

7 hours, 31 minutes • audio • 2025 user-added

nonfiction science informative reflective fast-paced
Arctic Convoys: Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas by David Kenyon

Arctic Convoys: Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas

David Kenyon

10 hours, 25 minutes • audio • 2023 user-added

nonfiction emotional informative tense medium-paced
My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes

My Broken Language: A Memoir

Quiara Alegría Hudes

336 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction autobiography memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany by Eric A. Johnson, Karl-Heinz Reuband

What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany

Eric A. Johnson, Karl-Heinz Reuband

434 pages • paperback • 2005

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Escape From the Ghetto: The Breathtaking Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the Nazis by John Carr

Escape From the Ghetto: The Breathtaking Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the Nazis

John Carr

336 pages • digital • 2020

nonfiction biography history emotional sad slow-paced