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History Challenge

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21 participants (170 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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America's War for the Greater Middle East by Andrew J. Bacevich

America's War for the Greater Middle East

Andrew J. Bacevich

480 pages • digital • 2016

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed

On Juneteenth

Annette Gordon-Reed

128 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction biography history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain

Necessary Lies

Necessary Lies #1

Diane Chamberlain

368 pages • hardcover • 2013

fiction historical emotional fast-paced
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon by Charles Fishman

One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon

Charles Fishman

15 hours, 7 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction history science informative inspiring medium-paced
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush

The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

Loren Grush

11 hours, 41 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction history science informative inspiring medium-paced
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland by Michelle Young

The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland

Michelle Young

11 hours, 51 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction art biography history lgbtqia+ informative inspiring tense medium-paced
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

Sam Kean

13 hours • audio • 2014

nonfiction history psychology science informative medium-paced
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham

Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

Elyse Graham

10 hours, 54 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction history politics medium-paced
Codename Nemo: The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and The Elusive Enigma Machine by Charles Lachman

Codename Nemo: The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and The Elusive Enigma Machine

Charles Lachman

10 hours, 43 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction history
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Sam Kean

12 hours, 34 minutes • audio • 2010

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced