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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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
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

10 hours, 47 minutes • audio • 2016

nonfiction history race science informative inspiring slow-paced
The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb by Sam Kean

The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

Sam Kean

14 hours, 37 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction history science informative fast-paced
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science

Sam Kean

11 hours, 45 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction history science true crime informative medium-paced
In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine by Rachel Lance

In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine

Rachel Lance

9 hours, 59 minutes • audio • 2020 user-added

nonfiction history informative tense medium-paced
All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor by Donald Stratton

All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor

Donald Stratton

5 hours, 55 minutes • audio • 2016

nonfiction history memoir emotional sad medium-paced
Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria by Kevin F. McMurray

Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria

Kevin F. McMurray

9 hours, 25 minutes • audio • 2001

nonfiction history informative tense slow-paced
A House for Spies: SIS Operations Into Occupied France from a Sussex Farmhouse by Edward Wake-Walker

A House for Spies: SIS Operations Into Occupied France from a Sussex Farmhouse

Edward Wake-Walker

9 hours, 52 minutes • audio • 2011

nonfiction history informative inspiring slow-paced
Realm Divided: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England by Dan Jones

Realm Divided: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England

Dan Jones

312 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction history informative fast-paced