History Challenge

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18 participants (92 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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The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway by Doug Most

The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway

Doug Most

15 hours, 26 minutes • audio • 2014 user-added

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
First They Killed My Father Movie Tie-In: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung

First They Killed My Father Movie Tie-In: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Daughter of Cambodia #1

Loung Ung

288 pages • paperback • 2000

nonfiction history memoir dark emotional informative medium-paced
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 slow-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