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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A Short History of China and Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence by Martin Stuart-Fox

A Short History of China and Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence

A Short History of Asia

Martin Stuart-Fox

292 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action by J. F. Martel

Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action

Manifesto

J. F. Martel

208 pages • paperback

nonfiction art history philosophy informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Modern Nationalism by John Hutchinson
Modern Nationalism
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John Hutchinson

Modern Nationalism

John Hutchinson

223 pages • paperback • 1994

nonfiction history politics medium-paced
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

431 pages • paperback • 2010

nonfiction biography history science emotional informative medium-paced
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global by Laura Spinney

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

Laura Spinney

9 hours, 3 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
Civilization and Enlightenment: The Early Thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi by Albert M. Craig

Civilization and Enlightenment: The Early Thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi

Albert M. Craig

212 pages • digital • 2009

nonfiction biography history philosophy sociology
Cultural Policy in South Korea: Making a New Patron State by Hye-Kyung Lee
Cultural Policy in South Korea: Making a New Patron State
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Hye-Kyung Lee

Cultural Policy in South Korea: Making a New Patron State

Routledge Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia

Hye-Kyung Lee

180 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction sociology
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

527 pages • paperback • 1951

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Erik Larson

448 pages • hardcover • 2015

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy by Craig Whitlock

Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

Craig Whitlock

480 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction biography history true crime medium-paced