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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Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder That Rocked New Orleans by Ethan Brown

Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder That Rocked New Orleans

Ethan Brown

320 pages • paperback • 2009

nonfiction crime true crime emotional informative fast-paced
Area 51: An uncensored history of America's top military base by Annie Jacobsen

Area 51: An uncensored history of America's top military base

Annie Jacobsen

592 pages • hardcover • 2011

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Patricia Evangelista

428 pages • paperback • 2023

nonfiction history memoir politics true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

Elle Reeve

304 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction history politics technology challenging dark informative medium-paced
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

370 pages • hardcover • 2018

fiction historical literary mystery emotional mysterious medium-paced
The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare by Christian Brose

The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

Christian Brose

320 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction politics dark informative slow-paced
Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror by James M. Scott, Jack Carr

Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror

James M. Scott, Jack Carr

333 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective medium-paced
In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked by Jonna Mendez

In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

Jonna Mendez

320 pages • hardcover

nonfiction biography politics true crime
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Christina Lamb, Malala Yousafzai

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Christina Lamb, Malala Yousafzai

330 pages • paperback • 2013

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring medium-paced
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

312 pages • paperback • 1963

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced